Wellness Centred Leadership
What is Wellness Centred leadership?
In today’s healthcare environment, leaders face unprecedented challenges that require more than traditional management skills. Our Wellness-Centred Leadership Retreats, in collaboration with Capstan Partners, are designed to equip healthcare leaders with the tools to foster personal wellbeing and inspire their teams through authentic, mindful leadership.
A wellness-centred leader possesses the ability to navigate complex demands while maintaining personal health and guiding their teams with empathy and resilience. Investing in such leadership development acknowledges that personal and professional growth are intertwined. Leaders who cultivate self-awareness and self-compassion are better positioned to nurture these qualities within their teams, leading to a more supportive and effective healthcare environment.
How coaching benefits healthcare leaders.
Coaching encourages leaders to reflect on their behaviours, emotions, and mindsets, fostering ownership of necessary changes. In a group setting, coaching leverages collective wisdom, enriched by expert facilitation. Our retreats offer both group and individualised coaching sessions, with opportunities for continued engagement post-retreat. Partnering with Capstan Partners, we advocate for coaching programs that promote self-awareness and provide a supportive space for transformative change.
YOUR FACILITATION & COACHING TEAM:
Director- Capstan Partners
Founder & Director of Capstan Partners- a specialist coaching provider to doctors and healthcare leaders, Rita holds a Masters Applied Science (Coaching Psychology) Uni of Sydney and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) accreditation from the International Coach Federation (ICF) in 2020. She is an ICF PCC Assessor with over 2000 hours experience working with senior leaders, including clinical and non-clinical doctors and healthcare professionals. Over the past fifteen years Rita has successfully designed, led and delivered a range of behavioural science-based programs including group and individual coaching for leadership, professional development, performance improvement and career transition coaching programs, wellbeing & resilience training and coaching programs, and organisation and cultural alignment consulting programs.
Founder & Director of Capstan Partners- a specialist coaching provider to doctors and healthcare leaders, Rita holds a Masters Applied Science (Coaching Psychology) Uni of Sydney and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) accreditation from the International Coach Federation (ICF) in 2020. She is an ICF PCC Assessor with over 2000 hours experience working with senior leaders, including clinical and non-clinical doctors and healthcare professionals. Over the past fifteen years Rita has successfully designed, led and delivered a range of behavioural science-based programs including group and individual coaching for leadership, professional development, performance improvement and career transition coaching programs, wellbeing & resilience training and coaching programs, and organisation and cultural alignment consulting programs.
CEO- Whole Hearted Medicine
General Practitioner, Registered Yoga & Meditation Teacher and accomplished group facilitator, Emily established Whole Hearted Medicine with the express goal of supporting the wellbeing of doctors & healthcare professionals. With significant experience in lifestyle medicine, mindfulness and holistic wellbeing, Emily has led Whole Hearted Medicine in pioneering the CPD accreditation of wellbeing education for doctors and continues to contribute to this area via her retreats as well as her academic position teaching medical students.
General Practitioner, Registered Yoga & Meditation Teacher and accomplished group facilitator, Emily established Whole Hearted Medicine with the express goal of supporting the wellbeing of doctors & healthcare professionals. With significant experience in lifestyle medicine, mindfulness and holistic wellbeing, Emily has led Whole Hearted Medicine in pioneering the CPD accreditation of wellbeing education for doctors and continues to contribute to this area via her retreats as well as her academic position teaching medical students.
Associate Coach- Capstan Partners
Paediatric Emergency Physician and previous President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Sarah has worked in different clinical and leadership roles across NSW over the last 25 years, from regional centres to specialist tertiary units and from community care to acute care retrieval services. Sarah completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Clinical Leadership and she has held executive leadership roles is several NSW Health entities.
Paediatric Emergency Physician and previous President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Sarah has worked in different clinical and leadership roles across NSW over the last 25 years, from regional centres to specialist tertiary units and from community care to acute care retrieval services. Sarah completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Clinical Leadership and she has held executive leadership roles is several NSW Health entities.
retreat information
An innovative approach to leadership education, Wellness Centred Leadership retreats by Whole Hearted Medicine & Capstan Partners support healthcare leaders to develop skills in both personal and organisational wellbeing. Empowering those in healthcare leadership roles to lead through the process of cultivating their own professional & personal wellbeing, using this as a tool to connect with and guide their teams through resonance and tangible action.
Drawing on wisdom from psychological paradigms such as Positive Psychology, CBT, ACT and IFS combined with the proven success of coaching to create a systems based approach to individual wellbeing that is reproducible and easily shared within organisations, Wellness Centred Leadership represents a unique opportunity for healthcare leaders to create lasting change.
Over an intensive four days of connection, education and coaching, this retreat will equip healthcare leaders with the necessary tools to not only care for their own wellbeing in these demanding roles, but also to confidently integrate holistic wellbeing and support into their leadership persona. With structured programs for ongoing support and coaching via Capstan Partners post retreat, your journey into Wellness Centred Leadership starts via this very important first step.
