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Being a diabetes educator can be challenging. This one-hour presentation by Heather Nielsen, MA, LPC, CHWC will provide diabetes educators with helpful hands-on strategies to incorporate mindfulness and self-compassion into our daily lives and professional practice.  As a counselor and a certified wellness coach, Heather has an abundance of wellness wisdom to share with educators who provide lifesaving diabetes education and support to people living with diabetes.

Objectives:

• Understand why mindfulness and compassion skills can positively affect both our personal and professional lives-and participant outcomes.
• Experience several types of mindfulness and compassion practices.
• Discuss and plan how you can take these tools into your work and personal lives.
• Gain new resources to use following the workshop.

Heather’s passion for mindfulness and diabetes came from her own struggles of living imperfectly with Type 1 since 1997. She is the mother of three teenage daughters, and credits her own practice in mindfulness and self compassion as a key factor in her good health and happiness in this phase of parenting! She and her husband, an internist, just opened a Functional Medicine clinic in Hood River, Oregon, where they provide team care to people with chronic illnesses of all kinds. Of course, her people with diabetes are her favorites 😉

Resources and Further Reading

Self-Care and Compassion for Diabetes Educators – August Newsletter, 2018. Features article by Heather Nielsen

Can Mindfulness Help Stop Health Worker Burnout? – highlights the benefits and limitations of formal mindfulness training for Health Care professionals’ stress.

Getting Started with Mindfulness– a popular and accessible magazine, Mindful, provides tips and tools for getting started on mindfulness practice.

Best Meditation Apps for 2018 – an article reviewing the best apps for meditation/happiness.

Mindfulness Self Compassion, Dr. Kristen Neff website which provides an abundance of resources and information on self-compassion.

Emindful.com – an online mindfulness teaching center.