Managing Strong Emotions (Mindfulness Tools for Care Providers)
Managing Strong Emotions
A needy patient lashes out, your clinic is short-staffed, the charting is endless. While some days may trigger anger or frustration, and others bring grief or fear, on most days these feelings follow you home. You feel yourself getting sharp, shut down, or flooded.
This class offers mindfulness and compassion practices to help you recognize strong emotions as they arise and respond with more clarity and choice. Through short, guided practices and reflection, we will explore how to stay present with difficult emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them, and how to reduce the impact of the inner critic. Rather than pushing emotions away, we will practice meeting them with awareness and steadiness, supporting a more grounded and skillful response in the moment.
3-Part Series: Mindfulness Tools for Care Providers
This is one in a three-part series of practical mindfulness classes designed for healthcare providers, caregivers, and anyone supporting others in high-stress environments. Classes are on three Saturday mornings this Spring at The Good Shepherd Center in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, 9:00–11:00am. Register for one or all three classes.
About the series
Mindfulness Tools for Care Providers
These sessions offer simple, evidence-based tools to support resilience, emotional balance, and well-being amid real-world stress. Each class includes guided formal mindfulness practices, and informal strategies you can put to use today.
No prior mindfulness or meditation experience is needed. If meditation has never felt realistic for you, or if your mind is busy and your schedule is full, you are in the right place. Attend one class or all three – each will offer unique exercises and stand on its own. However, the series will offer comprehensive and complimentary tools and practices.
Together, we will explore mindfulness approaches to stress, burnout, anxiety, and strong emotions, with practices that can support both your own well-being and the people you care for.
These classes are geared to all healthcare providers: physicians, nurses, therapists, etc. The practices can also be shared with patients and clients. This series is also open to anyone who can relate and would benefit with the teachings.
These classes are educational and experiential and are not intended as a substitute for professional therapy.
1st Class: Managing Stress and Burnout
Managing Stress and Burnout
Saturday, April 11, 2026, in-person in Seattle at Good Shepherd Center. 9-11am.
You’re running from patient to patient, skipping lunch, holding everyone else together, and realizing you haven’t taken a full breath all day. Does this sound familiar? Is this every working day for you? Welcome to this mindfulness tools class to help you find space in your day.
This course will offer mindfulness and compassion tools to help you manage stress and burnout and get a handle on the run-away day. Using short informal and formal meditation practices, we’ll learn ways to anchor attention and improve awareness. We’ll explore how to ride the ups and downs of life with less angst. We’ll look at the three elements of burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a depleted sense of personal accomplishment) and discuss strategies to prevent it from taking hold.
2nd Class: Facing Anxiety
Facing Anxiety
Saturday, May 9, 2026, in-person in Seattle at Good Shepherd Center. 9-11am.
You finally sit down at the end of your shift, and instead of relaxing, your mind starts replaying everything you might have missed. Rather than a sense of accomplishment, you feel worried. You turn to your phone for distraction and are bombarded with endless information. Rather than ease, you feel overwhelm.
Anxiety is common in healthcare settings, and it can quietly build under the surface. This class offers mindfulness and compassion-based tools to help you work with anxiety in a way that is practical, grounded, and immediately usable. Through short, guided practices and exercises, we will explore how anxiety shows up in the body and mind, how worry loops take hold, and how mindful awareness can help interrupt the spiral. You will learn ways to steady attention, settle the nervous system, and relate differently to anxious thoughts, without needing to “fix” or fight them.
3rd Class: Managing Strong Emotions
Managing Strong Emotions
Saturday, June 13, 2026, in-person in Seattle at Good Shepherd Center. 9-11am.
A needy patient lashes out, your clinic is short-staffed, the charting is endless. While some days may trigger anger or frustration, and others bring grief or fear, on most days these feelings follow you home. You feel yourself getting sharp, shut down, or flooded.
This class offers mindfulness and compassion practices to help you recognize strong emotions as they arise and respond with more clarity and choice. Through short, guided practices and reflection, we will explore how to stay present with difficult emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them, and how to reduce the impact of the inner critic. Rather than pushing emotions away, we will practice meeting them with awareness and steadiness, supporting a more grounded and skillful response in the moment.
SCHEDULE
Saturday June 13, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am PT
TEACHER
LOCATION
COST
$55 - $85 (or $14 – $21/month) (sales tax included)
- 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.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CME ACCREDITATION
This activity will focus on recognizing sources of stress, identifying factors and strategies that impact personal and professional resilience. Expert faculty will introduce the practice of mindfulness and self-compassion, and discuss early signs of burnout, evidence-based strategies for understanding and focusing ourselves to cope more effectively and allow more time, energy and cognitive capacity for patient and self-care.
This activity will bring hands-on experiences with easily accessed mindfulness and self-compassion practices useful during the heat of a busy day, as well as during quiet away from work. Both formal (set aside time to sit or walk for several minutes) and informal (short reminders of mindfulness during the day) practices will be taught to offer a library of techniques to access and strengthen the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this session, the participant will provide better patient care through an increased ability to:
- Define mindfulness and self-compassion
- Utilize mindfulness and self-compassion tools to short-circuit reactionary behaviors dure stress
- Utilize mindfulness and self-compassion tools to treat patients and colleagues with empathy
- Utilize mindfulness and self-compassion tolls to enhance clear communication with patients and colleagues
Accreditation with Commendation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Swedish Medical Center and Mindfulness Northwest. Swedish Medical Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Swedish Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each session is approved for 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Meet Your Instructor
Beth Glosten, M.D.
(she/her) Teacher
beth@mindfulnessnorthwest.com | 360-830-6439 x702
Beth attended the University of Washington School of Medicine and had an academic anesthesiology career until physical issues prompted her to step back from that hectic life. 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. This journey led her to Mindfulness Northwest where she completed both of our teacher training programs and became certified as a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Beth particularly appreciates being able to serve fellow healthcare providers in our Mindfuless for Healthcare program.
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