Generosity Towards the Self: A Workshop on Caring For and About Yourself.

Case Design Remodeling Inc "The Evidence on Being a Better Bodyguard to Yourself."

Generosity Towards the Self: A Workshop on Extreme Self Care.

Keynote Address: "Rolling Out Health Care Reform: Opportunities and Pitfalls for Advanced Practice Nursing."

3 presentations:

• Creating Balance: How to Say No to Get to Your Yes
• What Happens in Washington Doesn’t Stay in Washington: Health Reform Unfolds
• Generosity Towards the Self: Practicing Extreme Self Care

Keynote Address

Keynote Address.

"Empowering Yourself: Making Lifestyle Changes Your New Normal"

How to Have Difficult Conversations So you Can Live More Robustly.

Keynote Address: How Advanced Practice Nurses Expand Access.

Keynote Address

The Evidence on Caring For and About Yourself. Professional Development Day.

Fierce Conversations for Advanced Practice Nurses to Lead and Create Balance and Coaching: Inspiring Patients to Practice “Extreme” Self-Care.

The Art and Science of Practicing EXTREME Self Care.

Case Studies in NP Political Competence and Coaching Skills in Primary Care.

Coaching Skills for Nurse Practitioners, Virginia Conference of Nurse Practitioners at Marymount University..

Connecting the Dots: Careers in Health Promotion and Wellness

Policy, Politics and Power: A Call to Advanced Practice Nurses Keynote Address and The Practice of Extreme Self Care.

NPs and Health Care Reform Roll Out – Opportunities Abound Keynote Address and Strategizing Next Steps: A Political Positioning Discussion and 10 Forms of Political Competence in a Time of Health Care Reform and Engaging Patients More Fiercely: The Coaching Method.

Become the CEO of Your Own Life: The Practice of Extreme Self Care Keynote Address and Coaching Techniques for Nurses

A New Approach to Obesity: Applying Positive Psychology and the Coaching Method and A Call to Champion NPs and Influence Others.

The Art and Evidence of Extreme Self Care and Positive Motivation and The Coaching Method at the Summer Camp for Health Ministry sponsored by the Faith Ministry Nursing Advisory Council at Calvary Church, Souderton, PA. download brochure

The Science of Living in Balance: Leaders today are besieged by unrelenting demands to do more with less. Getting our needs met prevents us from hosting many chronic illnesses, builds healthy relationships, makes us more productive, creates more meaning and purpose in our lives. Explore the science on human flourishing and the 10 things you need in order to live well.

The Affordable Care Act as Opportunity: Advancing the Contribution of Nursing to the Public’s Health. Dr. O'Grady will speak on Advancing Practice Nursing: Self-Care and the New Health Care. download brochure

Keynote Overview of Cardiometabolic Risk co-presented with Edward Shahady, MD and Motivational Interviewing.

Keynote: The Best Medicine for American Health Care: Nurse Practitioners and Positive Psychology for Anxiety and Depression.

You 2.0: Applying the Science of Goal Attainment
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Envisioning your Ideal Practice Keynote

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  The Evidence On Human Flourishing   March 3

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Science Of Motivating Others While Caring For The Self In Uncertain Times    March 4

Plenary Session: The Evidence Base on Human Flourishing: Living in Balance

Awards DInner Speaker:Flourishing in a World of Change  

Plenary Sessions:  What to do When you Have Lost your "North Star"

Nursing Role Enhancement: Changing Roles/Emerging Opportunities. 

Create More Meaningful Patient Engagement  and Coaching  Nurse Practitioners Towards Success and A Case Study In Successful Lifestyle Change 

Motivational Interviewing for Busy People and

Clarifying the Coaching Model: Transformation

The Science of Living In Balance

Keynote Speaker, The Science of Flourishing for the 50th Anniversary of the School of Nursing Celebration

Using Motivational Interviewing to Promote Adherence.

Opening Plenary Session: It's All About YOU: Practicing Extreme Self Care

Mastering Difficult Conversations

Leading From Behind: Coaching as an Effective Leadership Tool and Strategy

Ingredients for the Good Life (Plenary Session)

Engaging Patients Through Motivation

Annual Nurses Recognition Dinner (November 4)

Clinical Excellence and Integration (November 5)

Women's Leadership Forum (November 6)

At the National Conference Center, Leesburg, VA

Creating A Balanced Work Life

The Wild West of Wellness: An Exploration of What Really Works (Plenary Session)

Motivating Students Through Skillful Conversations

Luncheon Speaker, The Science of Flourishing

In partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of New Mexico.  Serving as Chair of the national meeting at the Naples Grande Beach Resort.

Caring for the Heart of YOU and Your Patient

Speaker on The Science of Living In Balance at The Broadmoor

Closing Plenary: Motivating Your Patients to Change

18th Annual Distinguished Lecture Series

Patient Engagement and Practicing Extreme Self care.

Keynote

Building  Resiliency and Self Care

Keynote Speaker

Board Retreat on Self Care

Day Long Retreat for School of Nursing Faculty

Webinar to members of NALA (The Paralegal Association)

Keynote Speaker, A Modern Approach to Self Care. For Med-star Professional Nurses/ Georgetown University Continuing Nursing Education

Chairing National Meeting on graduate health policy education in nursing.

Women's  Leadership Series 

End Note Speaker

Patient Engagement and  Caring for the Self Despite Practice Demands 

For the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Mentorship Program

"What Makes a Great Life"

It’ is typically easy for most people to identify the stresses and distractions in our lives but have you ever thought about what makes for a life filled with energy, productivity and wellness? Dr. Eileen O’Grady will explore a fresh way to view self care and how to incorporate the science behind learned optimism. You’ll leave armed with inspiration, tools and an action plan to make lasting changes that lead you in a positive direction.

Open to the Public   Workshops | School of Wellness | Eileen O'Grady PhD, RN, NP

Do you give everything  you have to your job or profession? Feel unrelenting stress?  A lack of control over your life?  Have no time to do things that call to you?

This Workshop is for adults of all ages to explore key strategies across one's entire life and you will leave knowing:

• How to set boundaries
• How to regulate the self
• How to corral the inner critic
• How to cope with difficult others
• And so much more

You willl learn how to take command of your  time and priorities, especially on what to say YES and NO to. This workshop will help you break persistent patterns around chronic stress using science, wisdom  and humor to cultivate a better life.  Enter Left side of building, go to 3rd floor. Plenty of free parking.  Drinks and Refreshments will be served. SPACE IS LIMITED

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Leadership Program for UnitedHealth Group's Clinical Leader Executive Program

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC   SPACE IS LIMITED

40 miles from DC, and Fredrick MD, 24 Miles from Baltimore     Free parking    Beautiful wooded trails on 300 acres    Largest  walking labyrinth on the East Coast

WHO: Professionals who may feel besieged by your to-do list, have no free time,  or who would like to change habits and reach their fuller potential. For anybody who would like to attain a long-desired goal or searching for key strategies to confront a lifestyle that is not serving them.

WHAT:   Each person will leave the retreat knowing how to:

• Achieve intentional, permanent, change in your life
• Set boundaries
• Interrupt patterns that create more stress in your life
• Create your very own “personal policies”
• Gather motivation
• Not confuse selfishness and self-care
• Set and attain your own goals
• Rebalance your life when it goes off kilter

Ample time for discussion and reflection will be provided.

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for Professional Women in Health Care Association

Featured Speaker

How to Coach Woman with Obesity 7/20/17

Patient Engagement: The New Blockbuster Drug (7/21/17)

http://wjla.com/features/good-morning-washington/7-steps-to-interrupt-overwhelm

The National Primary Care Conference with the Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education, Inc. (NPACE).

How to Master Me: Self Care for the Busy Clinician

For the Professional Association for Legal Assistants

Coaching Skills to Improve Communication

Opening Presenter: Engaging Patients and Cultivating Motivation

Forum of Nurses in Advanced Practice of New Jersey

Do you find yourself setting goals, only to once again be disappointed that you did not achieve them? Learn the immediately useful science on how successful people set and achieve their most important goals. You will leave with proven tools and strategies that will help you to stay on course. Willpower is not enough for successful goal attainment. Gain knowledge on how to locate your North Star, how habit formation actually occurs and more. Take away specific action steps to make that New Year’s Resolution stick, no matter what time of the year it is!

This activity has been submitted to the American Holistic Nurses Association for approval to award 2 contact hours (expiration February 2020). The American Holistic Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.The Planners and Presenters of this activity have no relationships with a Commercial Interest Organization relative to the content of this educational activity.

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Life places unrelenting demands on our time and resources and often our own needs go untended, leaving us feeling stressed and unfulfilled. Learn about actionable tools to take control over what you can, including how to practice extreme self-care, despite unrelenting demand. Explore the elements of well-being, identify the traps that pull you in all directions and add stress to your life. We will look at the differences between self-care and selfishness, identify bedrock behaviors, and learn tools to set boundaries that allow us to reduce stress and live a purposeful life. You will create new boundaries, commit to self-serving behaviors and identify an accountability partner to keep you moving forward with intention and less stress.

This activity has been submitted to the American Holistic Nurses Association for approval to award 2 contact hours (expiration February 2020). The American Holistic Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.  The Planners and Presenters of this activity have no relationships with a Commercial Interest Organization relative to the content of this educational activity.

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We all encounter difficult people whether it’s at work, at home, on social media and more. We often employ ineffective strategies such as avoidance to get out of it as soon as possible. But learning how to interact with the difficult people in our lives greatly reduces stress and leads to high level wellness. You will learn pragmatic ways to identify and triage the various types difficult others, including toxicity, emotional vampires, power struggles, and bullies, using proven techniques. Knowing how to interact with difficult people and remedy the unwanted behavior in our lives greatly reduces corrosive stress, and leads to high level wellness.

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Approved to award 2 CNE through 2/12/2020 AHNA approval #1327.  Approval for contact hours through the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) is based on an assessment of the educational merit of this program and does not constitute endorsement of the use of any specific modality in the care of clients.

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For many people, weight loss is an unending battle that affects more than just our physical well- being. Discuss common myths about being overweight/obesity and present emerging science on how to address problems associated with food and eating patterns. We will explore issues such as food addiction, binging, cravings, emotional eating, brain plasticity, and teach you practical skills that will allow you to interrupt these patterns. Each person will leave with a deeper understanding of themselves in addition to remedies to empower you to take charge of your relationship with food and eating. Put an end to deprivation diets and embrace a healthy relationship that’s “right” and “real” with eating food.  Retreat led by Eileen O'Grady and Vernice Jones

Lunch will be provided.

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Many of us find ourselves in unwanted jobs or relationships, but the task of effecting change can be daunting. Explore your desired goals that up until now you have bene unable to reach and identify what is sabotaging your best intentions. We will uncover the hidden forces that hold you back and behaviors that will have you looking forward to change. We will help you create a detailed plan to overcome stuck behavior, identify an accountability plan, and move you towards your goals that have so far been unattainable.

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Approved to award  2 CNE through 2/12/2020 AHNA approval #1327 .Approval for contact hours through the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) is based on an assessment of the educational merit of this program and does not constitute endorsement of the use of any specific modality in the care of clients.

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This is an all day retreat incorporating all 4 workshop offerings (above) in one day.

• Got New Year’s Resolutions? How to Make Them Stick
• Mastering “ME”
• He Did What? Dealing with Difficult People
• The Art and Science of Getting Unstuck: Demystifying Change

All of us are faced with difficulties and challenges that can test our resilience and impede or ability to live a happy and fulfilling life. Reaching one’s greatest potential requires gathering motivation and resilience tools that you can use to navigate healthfully through trying times. You will explore theories and practices that energize you, help you say “YES” to what is important and “NO” to the things that drain you. You will distinguish between self-care and selfishness, and learn how to set and attain your own goals, how to use your strengths more creatively, build your emotional intelligence, and rebalance your life when it goes off kilter. Making long lasting, intentional change in life requires applying strong and personalized evidence-based tools. These become immediately useful in habit formation. Ample time for discussion will be provided.

Lunch Is provided

Schedule

9:00-9:05 Introductions
9:05-11: 00 Got New Year’s Resolutions? How to Make Them Stick (115 Minutes)
11:00-11:15 Break (15 minutes)
11:15 -1:15 Mastering “ME” (over lunch) (115 Minutes)
1:15-1:25 Break (10 Minutes)
1:25-3:20 He Did What? Dealing with Difficult People (115 Minutes)
3:20-3:35 Break (15 minutes)
3:35-5:30 The Art and Science of Getting Unstuck (115 Minutes)
5:30-6:00 Evaluation (20 Minutes) and Closing

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Approved to award 8 CNE through 2/12/2020 AHNA approval #1327.  Approval for contact hours through the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) is based on an assessment of the educational merit of this program and does not constitute endorsement of the use of any specific modality in the care of clients.

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Mastering Me

A Preconference Workshop

Reaching one’s greatest potential requires gathering motivation and resilience tools you can use to navigate healthfully through trying times. You will explore theories and practices that energize you, help you say ‘yes’ to what is important and ‘no’ to the things that drain you. You will distinguish selfishness from self-care and learn how to set and attain your own goals, how to use your strengths more creatively, build your emotional intelligence and rebalance your life when it goes off kilter. Making long lasting, intentional change in life requires applying strong and personalized evidence-based tools which are immediately useful in habit formation

Patient Engagement: The New Blockbuster Drug

General Session

If patient engagement is the new “blockbuster drug”, coaching is the delivery system. This session will present practical evidence-based coaching strategies to gather patient motivation, identify learning needs and barriers, set goals and build accountability. The evidence base on goal attainment and how to more effectively engage patients will be emphasized.

Content Leader on "Living in Balance"

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Interrupt Overwhelm: A Nurse Practitioner Faculty Retreat to Reflect, Regroup and Recharge

The purpose of the retreat is to singularly focus on the personal and professional growth in caring for the self and for each attendee to build a plan that reflects their most important values. Each person will leave with a sense of duty to make their own health, wellness and wholeness, not only possible, but a priority.
This half day retreat that will teach you to:
• gather motivation and set goals to make permanent lifestyle changes
• deploy your own cycle of renewal
• interrupt the patterns that add stress to your life
• set boundaries and create your own personal policies
• master habit formation
• learn the art of self-care, and so much more!

Retreat directors: Drs. Eileen O'Grady and Jean Johnson.

Become the CEO of your Whole Life

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Opening Keynote: Self Care for the Busy Clinician

Opening Keynote /2 breakout sessions on 7/12/18

Conference and Expo Brochure 

A Rocky Mountain Retreat that will focus on self care to reflect, re-group and re-charge for the over-busy NP.

Become the CEO of your Dissertation (for Earth Science Graduate Students)

Positive Psychology to Self-treat Anxiety and Depression.

Learn actionable tools to combat runaway anxiety and depression including the science of positive psychology, happiness habits, how to shut down difficult others and other sources of stress. Happiness hacks will be presented to empower you to challenge the thoughts and behaviors that limit your self-worth and effectiveness in the world. Grow into a master of self-care and self-regulation. Build your own emotional intelligence skills and recognize patterns in your life that need interruption.

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Closing Keynote

Defining Balance for Earth Scientists

Opening Keynote

Opening Keynote NP Practice: Leading Change, Advancing Health

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Preventing Burnout and Provider Wellbeing

Keynote: Bringing Dignity to Practice and Dealing with Difficult Others

Featured Speaker: Burnout Prevention: The Way Forward

Finding Your North Star: Building a Life after Loss
Delivered by The School of Wellness Faculty, Drs. Eileen O'Grady, Jean Johnson and Paul Tschudi

Navigating Difficult Others: How to Reduce Stress for Busy NPs

S/He Said What? Dealing with Difficult Others

Moving Yourself Forward after Loss

A workshop on locating your North Star with Paul Tschudi.

American Library Association Annual Meeting,  Emerging Leaders Program

Sidestepping Stress in a Distractible World (90 minutes) and
Dealing with Difficult Others (90- minutes)

Self leadership/self-Authorship

A day and a half long pre-conference retreat with The School of Wellness Faculty Eva Schmidt, for renewal and integrating extreme self care for over-deployed nurse practitioners.

Keynote Address:  Become the CEO of your WHOLE life

Coaching: A core APRN Skill   @ 1:30-5:45 PM [Wednesday]

The Art of Getting Unstuck   @ 8 AM-12:15 PM [Thursday]

Parent University 

Pre conference retreat:  Self Care October 22

Keynote luncheon speaker Oct 23

A Masterclass on Boundary-Setting

Self Care for Health Care Providers

In this workshop you will be applying the principles of change science.    We will be using your own strengths and several priority-setting techniques so that you align your life with what is most important to YOU.    Please come with a problem you want to work on or improve (home or work) that you so far have not yet been able to solve or balance.

Keynote Presentation: Therapeutic use of Self – How to Be More Caring and Less Drained

The entire world, it seems, is cancelled.  Those that are on the front lines are overwhelmed and distraught.  Therefore, The School of Wellness is offering  lively, interactive webinars for any team in the world that could use some help in practicing extreme self care and strategies to stay SANE during this unprecedented time.  At No Cost.   Just email  Eileen some times to  discuss  your specific  context over the phone  and we will schedule it/make it happen.

So far, since the pandemic began, The School of Wellness has conducted webinars for a wide range of teams, A Bar Association  (lawyers), ICU nurses in NYC,  physician assistants, Librarians, Universities (faculty and students), a parenting school, and a wide range of professional associations. Please reach out, we have good ideas and we very much want to help.

A retreat for Neonatologists at MEDNAX in Portland Oregon

A seminar for the patients of Erin Bagshaw, NP a Functional Medicine expert on how to move through change and life transitions.

Keynote

Closing Keynote 

Keynote Address

TAPS:  Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors

Carolyn Buppert, Law Office of Carolyn Buppert &

Eileen T. O’Grady, Founder, The School of Wellness, LLC

Interacting with difficult others in the workplace is a common occurrence.  Attorney Carolyn Buppert and Wellness Coach and Nurse Practitioner Dr. Eileen O’Grady are contacted by nurses in distress all over the United States because of rude, bullying, and toxic behaviors in the health care setting.  They want to know whether there are legal remedies that will free them from their situation. They want to know how to make it stop. This workshop will use case studies to explore and define illegal workplace behaviors including harassment and discrimination. The presenters will offer strategies on how to stop toxic workplace behavior and outline the evidence needed if there is a legal remedy.

Often, bad workplace behavior isn’t illegal. For example, bullying is not illegal. Coworkers may be narcissists, emotional vampires, borderline personalities, and those that engage in power struggles.  The presenters offer a triage system to help identify the type of difficult person one is confronting and evidence-based strategies to mitigate the stress effect of these difficult people.  Accurately identifying the type of difficult other is a key initial step in knowing how to best handle these challenges so that the nurse is protected and the toxic interaction is de-escalated.

FREE Webinar for any parent interested in raising kids with a high degree of belonging, competence and self regulation.    Click HERE to register.

A mother and her adult son raised with the PEP principles in parenting will discuss strategies to promote belonging, competence and connection during this extraordinary and difficult time for families. Featuring Eileen O'Grady, Nurse Practitioner, Wellness Coach, and longtime PEP parent with her son Liam Zeya.

The Wauconda (IL) Area Public Librarians @ 8 pm EST

Resilience in the Era of Covid-19

At the Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education (NPACE) Annual virtual meeting

Dealing with Difficult People

Speaker Series: Self Care

For the patients of Northwest Nurse Practitioner Associates (Washington DC) owned and founded by Erin Bagshaw, NP

Dignity as Practice

Self Care

Speaker Series: Extreme Self Care for Extreme Times

The  US Chamber of Commerce, Institute for Organizational Management

Keynote:  Resiliency

Building Resiliency

A webinar for the Lake Forest Illinois Public Library Community 

Resilience 2.0: Wellness in the Era of Covid 19

Resiliency

Resiliency 2.0:   Wellness in the Era of Covid-19, for Minute Clinics  Clinical Leaders.

Co-presented with Dr. Jean Johnson

Newborn retreat Workshop: Resiliency 2.0: Next-Level Wellbeing

Co-presented with Dr. Greg Pawlson

Extreme Self Care for Extreme Times

Resiliency 2.0:  Reclaiming Agency in your Life in the Era of Covid-19

Nurse Practitioner Resiliency Keynote General Session Annual Conference

Resiliency 2.0. The Annual Valentine Lecture at the School of Nursing, a gift to the community

Developing Relationships:  A Workshop for Clinical Leaders

Resiliency 2.0: Next Level Wellness in the Era of COVID

A workshop for the Staff of the ALA

Caring for the Self: A Workshop

Wellness in the Era of COVID-19 

Developing Great Relationships

International Audience General Session: Taking Care of YOU so You can Take Care of Patients

Breakout Session: Resiliency

Resiliency 2.0
Wellness in the Era of COVID

Resiliency & Wellbeing

Discuss wellbeing with faculty.

Series of discussions on Wellbeing, Burnout Prevention and Role Transitioning from  RN to NP

Resiliency and Leadership

Dealing with Difficult Others: For the Library Staff Facing the Public

Leading the SELF: A Workshop

College of Nursing Annual Retreat

Keynote: Resilience

Keynote: Nurse Practitioner Well-Being

Self Care: Leading the Self

Keynote

2021 Annual Academic Leadership Conference: Advancing Self-Care and Wellness in Academic Nursing. Co leading with Dr. Jean Johnson.

Guest Lecture

Closing Plenary: Health, Wellness, and Resilience

VNA Foundation Leadership Fellows

Annual conference for  Riverside Medical Advanced Practice Providers

Choosing Wellness: Create your Own Weather in Stormy Times...  for all of the nation's neonatal nurses.   

Choosing Wellness: Nurse Well-being in Challenging Times

Virtual Keynote at the 8^th Annual Comprehensive Cardiovascular Conference: Celebrating the Heart of You and Your Patient.

Praire Heart Institute

Closing Plenary University of Rhode Island's College of Pharmacy

37th Annual Seminar by the Sea Northeast Regional Conference March 17-18, 2022 in Newport, RI.

A Pre-Conference Retreat at the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium