Let’s Focus on Staff Wellbeing

Hosted by the Dorset General Practice Alliance and WellNet

Autumn Summit 2023
1st November 2023, 1pm - 5pm
Cobham Sports & Social Club, Wimborne

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SPEAKERS

4
WORKSHOPS

5
STANDS

Explore the summit

What to Expect at the Autumn Summit?

The Dorset General Practice Alliance and Here for Each Other - Wellnet are jointly hosting our Autumn Summit with a focus on staff wellbeing. The Summit provides an insight into how staff are feeling and coping in Dorset’s general practices. We have a range of experts who will present a variety of workshops on how to identify and reduce stress, enhance wellbeing and develop a positive workplace culture.

Speakers

Dr Forbes Watson Chair of the Dorset General Practice Alliance

Cecilia Bufton - Chair of the Dorset Integrated Care Partnership

Ian Gall, Patient & Participation Board Lead for the Dorset General Practice Alliance

Jane Dawes, Dorset General Practice Alliance Communications

Susannah Basile Doctors in Distress

Dr Andrew Tresidder Doctors in Distress

Richard House - We are Huumans - A Physical, Mental and Workplace Wellbeing Platform

Kate Bufton & Colette Michel-Walsh from Pineapple Moon Therapies

Romany Ross Central Bournemouth Primary Care Network Manager

Robert Gebka Here for Each Other Staff Wellbeing Service – WellNet Dorset

Programme

1pm – Registration, networking and lunch

2pm – Welcome and introductions – Dr Forbes Watson

2.05pm – Opening keynote Cecilia Bufton Chair of the Dorset Integrated Care Partnership

2.15pm – Digging Deeper Ian Gall, Patient & Participation Board Lead for the Alliance & Jane Dawes, Alliance Project Support Communications

2.30pm – Here for Each Other - WellNet offer of support to Dorset practices - Robert Gebka, Romany Ross Bournemouth Central Primary Care Network.

2.40pm – Introduction to the workshop sessions (see below for workshop details):

1. Prevent Burnout and enhance your wellbeing with evidence-based mindfulness strategies and WellNet offer to Dorset practices - Robert Gebka

2. Richard House - Entrepreneur, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Huumans.io

3. There is no healthcare without self-care Susannah Basile Head of External Affairs and Business Development Doctors in Distress and Dr Andrew Tresidder

4. Here for You– Kate Bufton & Colette Michel-Walsh from Pineapple Moon Therapies

4.45pm – Closing reflections Dr Forbes Watson and Robert Gebka

Workshop Sessions

From 2.55pm to 4.40pm – rotate, there are four breakout sessions to choose from.

Session 1: 2.55pm to 3.30pm

Session 2: 3.35pm to 4.05pm

Session 3: 4.10pm to 4.40pm

Workshop with Doctors in Distress - There is no healthcare without self-care. Presentation from summit

Ask a hundred people how they are, and the answer is Fine – Fearful Insecure Neurotic and Emotionally Imbalanced – this is the Denial mechanism. Ask a hundred doctors, nurses, health care professionals, managers and others with responsibilities – and they cannot answer – they are too busy looking after others. Yet we all know how crucial it is when our car runs out of fuel or breaks down on an important journey. So why do we, as Health Care Professionals , mortgage our own physical and psychological health?

The answers are actually quite simple, and the principles that underpin Health and Self Care are applied common sense. Be prepared to be stimulated, to remember, and to explore how to understand and take control of the Autonomic Nervous System and the stress response, the Drama Triangle and other topics. Why would we not put our own oxygen mask on first……? www.healthandself.care has many of the answers – or at least, encourages us to remember them! FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD FOR ‘Inner Balance for an Effective Life for Health Professionals’

Susannah Basile Head of External Affairs and Business Development - Doctors in Distress The Doctors in Distress Team - The Driving Force Of The Charity (doctors-in-distress.org.uk). Susannah has a Masters in Governance and Political Development and speaks three languages. Before joining Doctors in Distress, Susannah worked for a high-profile Member of Parliament which gave her a passion for campaigning and helping others. Susannah is committed to working to erase stigma around accessing mental support and ensuring that healthcare workers get the support they need to stay mentally healthy.

Dr AndrewTresidder has held roles as GP Partner, NHS Practitioner Health SW Clinical Lead, GP Appraiser, Medical Educator, University of Bristol GP Academy Lead, Mental Health Act Assessor, Prison Doctor, Forensic Physician and Mentor. He currently works for NHS Somerset as Clinical Lead for Medicines Management and Evidence Based Interventions as well as an educator.

Workshop with Richard House - Entrepreneur, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Huumans.io Presentation from summit

We are Huumans - A Physical, Mental and Workplace Wellbeing Platform

Join us for a session that explores the fascinating connection between habits, behaviour design, and organisational culture. We will delve into how habits and behaviours shape the culture within Practices and PCN's and provide practical insights on how to drive positive changes in the workplace. This session also highlights the challenges people face when trying to make lasting changes and offers solutions to help individuals and teams succeed in aligning their behaviours with their organisation's values.

Richard helps organisations design their Culture, and the behaviours and habits that create great outcomes. He has spent the last 18 years working across the Health and Social Care sector nationally (NHSE, LMC's, ICS PCN's, Primary and Secondary Care), has worked with the world’s largest global companies (Finance, FMCG, Tech) and left his career at the John Lewis Partnership to help solve the workforce and culture challenges across Mental Health and LD Services.

Richard is a Behaviour Design expert and is part of Stanford University Prof BJ Fogg (Netflix, The Social Dilemma) Behaviour Design and Habits alumni. He lives in The New Forest with his family.

Workshop with Robert Gebka - Prevent Burnout and enhance your wellbeing with evidence-based mindfulness strategies

Here for Each Other Staff Wellbeing Service – WellNet Dorset

Overwhelm and burnout is something we can all experience from time to time, especially in the current landscape of working within the healthcare sector. Mindfulness is an evidence based cognitive attention training scientifically shown to lower stress, anxiety and depression. It is approved by the NHS as well as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Although mindfulness alone cannot solve the systemic challenges, regular mindfulness practice, as part of our overall self-care routine, can help us improve our concentration, raise self-awareness, enhance our sense of self-compassion as well as general mental wellbeing. This mini taster session will: Introduce mindfulness in a practical way, explore the psychology of burnout and offer a self-coaching toolkit for navigating your own sense of mental wellbeing.

Robert Gebka is a Health & Wellbeing Coach with the NHS Dorset Here for Each other Staff Wellbeing Service. He is a qualified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction facilitator having trained with the University of California San Diego Centers for Integrative Health, USA. Robert spent five years at a Zen Buddhist monastery in South Africa where he studied mindfulness based psychology and human behaviour. He is also an accredited counsellor and the author of Managing Depression with Mindfulness for Dummies. Robert's interest in coaching has been inspired through his own healing journey through PTSD and depression and it is this very journey that has inspired his passion in empowering others in their own efforts towards a greater sense of resilience, emotional wellbeing and mindful living. He is an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society as well as the British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches. He lives in Bournemouth with his wife and their four-year-old daughter and whenever time allows he enjoys soaking up the sun at our beautiful local Dorset beaches.