PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center’s Continuing Medical Education department and Mindfulness Northwest are happy to continue to provide this program to enhance the health of regional healthcare professionals.
Are you a stressed healthcare provider, administrator, or staff person?
Join a group of peers in an investigation of mindfulness from the inside out. Mindfulness for Healthcare Professionals, based on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), is designed for busy healthcare workers and offers an immersion into mindfulness training in a shorter 5-week period.
This course has been offered to providers at University of Washington Medical, Evergreen Medical Center, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Providence Health and several other Puget Sound medical centers. Many have found it helpful in managing stress, reconnecting with meanging, working with teams, and having deeper and more satisfying relationships with patients.
This 5-week course is designed to benefit all kinds of healthcare professionals, including nurses, doctors, therapists, social workers, and administrative staff, among others. If you think this course could be helpful for you, we encourage you to register. Spouses and partners are also welcome to join the class.
CME ACCREDITATION
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements of the Washington State Medical Association through the joint providership of PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center and Mindful Northwest. PeaceHealth St. Joseph is accredited by the WSMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement: The content of this activity is not related to products or services of an ACCME-defined commercial interest; therefore no one in control of content has a relevant financial relationship to disclose and there is no potential for conflicts of interest.
Course Details
indfulness for Healthcare Professionals is a structured 5-week course on mindfulness that promotes stress reduction, health and well-being. There are five 2.5 hour evenings meetings plus a weekend 6 hour retreat day included.
This highly participatory, practical class includes:
- Guided instruction in mindfulness meditation practices
- Guided instruction in stretching and mindful yoga
- Group dialogue and small group exercises
- Daily home assignments
This course has been offered to physicians, healthcare professionals and therapists at many regional medical centers since 2012 including UW Medicine, Evergreen Health, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center, The Everett Clinic, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and the Skagit Valley Medical Center through the Northwest Washington Medical Society or co-sponsored with the Washington Physicians Health Program.
Benefits of this Course
Our Mindfulness for Healthcare Professionals training includes all of the core elements of the well-studied Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction curriculum (Kabat-Zinn 1990, 1982, 2002) in a briefer and more concentrated format adapted for healthcare, and is equivalent in scale and content to several mindfulness training interventions which have proven effective (Fourtney et al. 2013, Schoroeder et al. 2015).
Preliminary data we’ve collected suggests our course results in a decrease of symptoms of burnout, an increase in mindfulness, and a decrease in perceived stress. Specifically, the data show:
- an increase in mindfulness of 11%;
- a decrease in perceived stress of 21%;
- a reduction in depersonalization of 15%:
- a decrease in emotional exhaustion 6%; and
- an increased sense of efficacy 8%.
Mindfulness for Healthcare Professionals has been offered since 2012 at the University of Washington Medical School, The Everett Clinic, Evergreen Medical Center, Skagit Valley Regional Medical Center, PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Medical Center, and Providence and through the WPHP and SCCA.
MBSR is the best researched mindfulness intervention with positive research indications for:
- Reduced stress and anxiety while working
- Reduced burnout
- Improved communication and relationships with patients
- Better patient outcomes
- Improved communications and relationships with co-workers
- Improved focus and creativity
- Greater job satisfaction
SCHEDULE
Wednesdays, October 8 – November 5, 2025
6:30 – 9pm PST
All-Day Retreat (Online):
Saturday November 1, 2025 9am-4pm PT
TEACHER
LOCATION
Offered Live Online. Zoom link will be sent to you by email once you register.
ACCREDITATION
See below for information on the Continuing Medical Education credits (CME) available to participants of this course.
COST
$360 – $540 (or $90 – $135/month)
- Sliding scale: Choose what’s right for you.
- Payment plan option: 4-months, no-interest.
- Scholarships available: No need to apply; just choose a scholarship tuition during registration.
Meet Your Instructor
“I want to add my endorsement for the online provider MHP class. MHP changed my life both professionally and personally. It gave me perspective which I had lost over time and due to chronic fatigue. This class can allow one to build emotional resilience in ways that nothing else does.”
Kevin Walsh, M.D.,
Ellensberg WA
Beth Glosten, M.D.
Teacher
Beth attended the University of Washington School of Medicine and had an academic anesthesiology career until physical issues prompted her to step back from her career. She studied pilates, and through this system embraced moving mindfully. She was drawn to meditation several years ago and found it meshed naturally with her approach to teaching movement: turn focus inward to listen to, and befriend, one’s self. From this place, growth and healing are possible.
As health care workers, we are stretched a hundred different directions at the same time, then exhausted with charting and terrible at finding time for self care. I was worried I would fidget and not be able to sit still, but the resulting calm I felt was shocking. I strongly recommend every medical worker to do this course, it truly is life changing.
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