The healing power of contemplative medicine

Chodo Robert Cambell & koshin Paley Ellison and with Barbara Doeleman-van Veldhoven

Contemplative medicine is an evidenced-informed, wholehearted, and fundamentally relational approach to healthcare

Its application prioritizes compassionate care and the alleviation of suffering through a deep integration of the three inseparable dimensions of your “one life” – clinical, interpersonal, and personal. Grounded in a contemplative practice, it nurtures greater intimacy, connection, and awareness – within oneself and between one another, and with the greater whole – fostering the conditions for practitioners to develop revitalizing care partnerships while reducing feelings of burnout, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization.

Afternoon workshop

This afternoon workshop will introduce you to the core values, relational impacts, and everyday practices of contemplative medicine as facilitated by Sensei Chodo Campbell, Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Barbara Doeleman. The Guiding Teachers of the New York Zen Center together with Barbara Doeleman will joyfully offer this workshop together based on Zen Center’s core offerings: the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship and Foundations in Contemplative Care.

Key themes

● The Four Noble Truths including the Eightfold Path
● Contemplative Medicine and medicine are not separate
● Reclaiming the heart of medicine
● “One-life”: work-life integration not work-life balance
● Intimacy with Self = Intimacy with another
● Giving and Receiving Equally
● Practical Ways of doing contemplative medicine now
● Research and Findings

What are you going to learn

● You will have opportunities to voice your personal values within medicine, and identify alignment or misalignment of those values within your current practice context.

● You will begin the essential work of refining your understanding of work-life integration and its importance in promoting personal well-being, interpersonal connections, and clinical satisfaction.

● You will consider the core relationships to foster community and build upon these relationships for deeper connection and continued resilience in the face of burnout, isolation, and overwhelm.

Programme

Meditation and Opening Conversation

Session I
– Identifying the core principles and values of contemplative medicine
– Exploring how these values can show up in your in your clinical practice, in your one life
– Experiential Learning (breakout)
– Stretch and Release

Session II
– Offering Stories of Impact and Connection
– Experiential Learning (breakout)

Brochure

The location

The Hoorneboeg is a beautiful place amidst ancient trees and on the edge of peaceful moorland. The estate and its buildings are inspirational and serene.

Information

We look forward to welcoming you on Friday 23 May at 1 p.m. at the Hoorneboeg (Hoorneboeg 5, Hilversum). The day ends at 4pm.

Hoorneboeg Estate and BFC Compassionate Care & Mindful Medicine are so generous that we may use their location and expertise for only a registration fee of €12,50 per person.

The afternoon of inspiration it self is given on a dāna basis.

Dāna

At the heart of Buddhist practice lies the age-old tradition of dāna, or generosity. Dāna encourages cultivating an open heart and offering support without expecting anything in return. This act of giving creates a reciprocal relationship between the giver, the recipient and the wider community and nurtures interdependence and mutual care.

We invite you to express your gratitude in an amount that is meaningful to you.

Terms & conditions

Due to the generous nature of this workshop, we are making an exception for this event to our cancellation policy of our terms and conditions. Once you are signed up it is possible to cancel via office@ccmm.care however it is not possible to receive a refund.

Teachers

Chodo Robert Cambell Co-Founder, Vice President, & Guiding Teacher, New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care (NYZC), Guiding Teacher, NYZC Contemplative Medicine Fellowship
New York, NY

Zen teacher and co-founder, with Koshin Paley Ellison, of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, an educational non-profit dedicated to integrating contemplative approaches to care and contemporary medicine. Through Chodo’s leadership and vision, NYZC has developed transformational, collaborative training experiences: the Foundations in Contemplative Care and the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship. Today, New York Zen Center’s teachings and practices are internationally recognized — and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals.

Chodo is a dynamic, grounded, and visionary leader and teacher: he has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. teaching and presenting at various institutions. He has worked with those living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. as well as Zimbabwe and South Africa. Chodo’s public programs have introduced thousands to the practices of mindful and compassionate care of the living and dying. Sixty-thousand people listen to his podcasts each year. His passion lies in bereavement counseling for those suffering with the complexities of death & dying and aging. His work is focused on advocating for change in the way our healthcare institutions work with end of life support and care.

Chodo is widely recognized as a trailblazer and authority on contemplative care. He and Koshin Paley Ellison are featured in Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death, a documentary about how we face our mortality and are also the focus of a documentary about Buddhism in America for Dutch television called In the Flow of 10,000 Things. Chodo’s work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, Tricycle, Parabola and other media outlets. He is a recognized Soto Zen Teacher with the American Zen Teachers Association, White Plum Asanga, and Soto Zen Buddhist Association.

Instagram: @chodorobertcampbell @newyorkzencenter

Koshin Paley Ellison Co-Founder, President, & Guiding Teacher, New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care (NYZC), Guiding Teacher, NYZC Contemplative Medicine Fellowship

Author, Zen teacher, and Jungian psychotherapist Koshin Paley Ellison is recognized as one of today’s most thoughtful and trusted leaders in the contemplative medicine movement. With his husband, Chodo Campbell he co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, an educational non-profit dedicated to integrating contemplative approaches to care with contemporary medicine. Through Koshin’s leadership and vision, NYZC has developed transformational, collaborative training experiences: the Foundations in Contemplative Care and the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship. Today, New York Zen Center’s teachings and practices are internationally recognized — and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals.

As a renowned thought leader in contemplative care, Koshin’s work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, CBS Sunday Morning and other media outlets. Koshin and Chodo were featured in Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death, a documentary about facing our mortality and are also the focus of a documentary about Buddhism in America for Dutch television called In the Flow of 10,000 Things. Koshin is the author of Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion (Balance/Hachette, 2022); Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications, 2019), and the co-editor of Awake at Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016).

Koshin began his formal Zen training in 1987, and he is a recognized Soto Zen Teacher by the American Zen Teachers Association, White Plum Asanga, and Soto Zen Buddhist Association. He serves on the Board of Directors at the Soto Zen Buddhist Association, New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He has completed six years of training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association as well as clinical contemplative training at both Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Medical Center. Koshin has served as the co-director of Contemplative Care Services of the Department of Integrative Medicine and as the chaplaincy supervisor for the Pain and Palliative Care Department at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, where he also served on the Medical Ethics Committee for eighteen years.

Instagram: @koshinpaleyellison @newyorkzencenter

Barbara Doeleman-van Veldhoven founder and director of BFC Compassionate Care & Mindful Medicine and is an expert in compassionate leadership. Working nationally and internationally with experts on integrating mindfulness & compassion into organization and leadership, she trains many leaders, medical professionals, doctors and medical nurses yearly.

Since the age of 18, consciousness work, meditation and the practice of mindfulness and compassion have been the foundation of her personal and professional life. She passes this foundation on during her mindfulness trainings and retreats.

Her background -in knowledge and experience- enables her to interpret and put into practice the connection between healthcare, leadership, teamwork, science, mindfulness and spirituality (contemplative traditions) in all clarity. She does so with lighthearted earthiness, humor and sharpness.

Her passion is to support medical professionals in cultivating compassionate and successful organizations as a foundation for success. Her background enables her to bridge organizational dynamics, leadership, insights from ancient wisdom traditions, mindfulness, compassion and science.

She is a sought-after speaker, trainer, meditation teacher and process facilitator.