Category: Events

Putting evidence-based empathy into practice.

October 8th. All day 9-5 interactive workshop (in person).  

Stoneygate Centre for Empathy Leicester University. https://le.ac.uk/empathy/media 

Early bird offer until 1st June. Final booking 20th September https://shop.le.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/events-at-leicester/the-stoneygate-centre-for-empathic-healthcare/workshop-8th-october-2024-putting-evidencebased-empathy-into-practice 

Institute of Medical Ethics (IME) national annual conference

July 11th & 12th, London. 

Call for abstracts! Deadline 25th February 2024 

https://ime-uk.org/events-and-news/events/call-for-abstracts/ 

Celebrating community in palliative and end of life care. Compassionate Communities UK.

2-day Conference 2nd and 3rd July  

Rugeley, Staffordshire https://compassionate-communitiesuk.com/conference2024/ 

HVHF – annual rehumanising healthcare event. Almost FREE event (donations from £1) Saturday 6th July 2024 All day, in person.

Royal Foundation of St Katharine retreat centre, London. 

A day for connecting with colleagues, holding appreciative conversations, enjoying replenishment and restoration. Details to follow shortly. Save the Date! 

Kindness in Healthcare

Monthly conversations. https://kindnessinhealthcare.world/ 

Meeting are held on the third Thursday of the month, at 6pm GMT. All are welcome – if you would like to join, please contact us.

Teaching Empathy 22-24th April 2024 at Stoneygate Centre for Empathy, University of Leicester. Educating for Empathy in Healthcare: “Train the Trainers” 3-day Course

https://le.ac.uk/empathy/media 

For leaders in healthcare education with an interest in developing, improving and delivering empathy-focussed training in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula.

This innovative and pioneering training course will provide clinicians, educators and academics with the skills needed to effectively teach empathy to healthcare students and practitioners. In addition, attendees will learn to support others to recognise the barriers and challenges to embedding empathy across the systems they work in, and to develop effective strategies for overcoming them.

Link to register https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=as2-rtQxAUuVzoJ0r-hT2Rn3uDxCp6RKmDKhtN7u4VlUNjNMTzNWOTNTV0lQSUg3RE4xRDlXSDRYTy4u

Can we future proof the health and care workforce?

April 16th 2024 8am-6pm BST 

Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), In person event 

https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/open/2023-24/ons01/?_cldee=NZ8GQ0SLnwCf3WbG1vivTRIuV30oPCdY9I8ZGmdyAoH1-EiZsxKkRpFtWLJnFv3I&recipientid=contact-62029464f322e911a8a0002248005556-54d22304af114fa5899528ae77ebb35c&utm_source=ClickDimensions&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GPenews&esid=1311bb4c-b8ba-ee11-9078-0022481ab7a0

Leveraging AI to enhance compassionate and relationship-centred healthcare?  FREE in-person event.

Speakers: Dr Paquita de Zulueta, Professor Shannon Vallor, Professor John Gillies, Professor Stewart Mercer 

12th March 5-6.30pm GMT Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh  

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leveraging-ai-to-enhance-compassionate-and-relationship-based-healthcare-tickets-835906558017 

Surfing not sinking at work webinar

Surfing not sinking at work https://www.globalcompassioncoalition.org/events/surfing-not-sinking-at-work/ Free event – donations welcome. 

With Michael West and Vidyamala Burch 

Sunday 18th February 5-8pm UK time (GMT). 

Aims

  • To help those attending understand the workplace characteristics that enable us to thrive and be happy at work.
  • To provide practical tools and support for people to begin to improve their work environments. 
  • To explore the challenges and how to deal with them.
  • To reinforce the importance of compassion and self-compassion in ensuring work where people can surf rather than sink.