The Gutsy Nurses Program
It takes a special person to be a nurse. Working in a dysfunctional healthcare system is characterized by high personal demands and unpredictability. It takes a gutsy nurse to stand up to repeated exposure to these threats and challenges without becoming exhausted or burned out.
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Fortunately, the Gutsy Nurses Program has developed strategies to help nurses recover their power, gain strength through their adversity and best of all, love their nursing practice. We show nurses how to include the creative power of the Divine to express their wisdom, their determination and their courage to serve their own needs as well as the needs of their patients.
Physicians and other healthcare professionals are welcome to attend and will benefit from this program.
Step One: The Body Selectric
How the Body Moves From Fight, Flight, Freeze Back to Flow
Step One offers an experiential understanding of how the nervous system automatically selects the right response when the individual perceives safety, danger or life-threat. Participants will learn how to interrupt the traumatic stress continuum in order to reduce sympathetic adrenal activation and create a felt sense experience of safety in themselves and in those they care for.
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At the end of this class, you will be able to:
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Demonstrate the felt sense regulation of your autonomic nervous system.
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Discuss neuroception.
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Discuss the importance of the completed defensive response.
Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 6 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”
Step Two:
The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
How To Feel Safe In an Unsafe Environment
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Step Two uses humor to demonstrate how our perceptions and behaviors change when we go from feeling safe to feeling that we are in danger.
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At the end of this class you will be able to:
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Discuss the importance of social engagement
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Identify the three stages of the Polyvagal Theory
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Describe disassociation as a resource.
Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 6 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”
Step Three: Looking In/Speaking Out
The courage to be authentic
Step Five uses body-centered communication to distill, focus, remember and amplify the authentic self.
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Participants will be presented with options on how to move beyond the constraints of an identity defined by roles, titles, degrees and the ability to respond to unrelenting professional demands.
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At the end of this class, you will be able to:
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Describe unmasking the authentic self.
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Discover the qualities of embodied experience.
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Discuss options for speaking your truth.
Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 6 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”
Step Four: From Stressed to Gutsy
How to embrace Your Inner Gutsiness
At the end of this class, you will be able to:
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Identify the five basic core needs everyone is born with.
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Describe the importance of support as you step into your strength.
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Explain how adaptive behaviors can lead to exploitation.
Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 6 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”
Step Five: The 12 Steps of Healing Care
Stepping Up Your Game and Bringing Change!
Step Four offers nurses a simple but powerful spiritual approach to effective systems change. It draws on evidence based practices that have healed family systems for almost 100 years.
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At the end of this class, you will be able to:
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Discuss the meaning of Anam Cara nursing.
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Recognize the influence of spiritual power in systems change.
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Describe the 12 Steps of Healing Care
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Continuing Education contact hours are available through Taylor College.
“Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing for 6 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Provider number CEP-3285”
Free Bonus: One year of Group Coaching
Gutsy Nurses Group Coaching provides a safe place for you to… Let the group help you grow. Respect the needs of your body, mind and soul. Overcome the barriers that make it hard to change. Strengthen your ability to be true to yourself. Utilize the support of the group.
Gutsy Nurses Group Coaching meets for one hour the third Wednesday of every month on Zoom. Starting time is 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST
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Annual Recognition Ceremony Celebration
Document your Gutsy Nurse actions, no matter how big or how small, and submit them for recognition so we all can celebrate and support your efforts. Change is what we came here to do and with the love and guidance of the Divine we will reclaim nursing and bring true healing care to our patients.​
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