VA Writes: A Reflective Writing Workshop to Improve Well-Being in Health Care Employees

NEJM Catalyst, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6(1)

Published: Dec. 18, 2024

During the Covid-19 pandemic, an online reflective writing workshop, Penning Pandemic, was developed to address well-being of U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) health care employees (HCEs). By focusing on reflection, rather than craft writing, and operating as a safe space where diverse groups clinical nonclinical HCEs could share their work, workshops improved sense community, job satisfaction, professional personal interactions. Each workshop led by team two or three trained facilitators working with no more 15 participants, first through shared discussion published piece art, then prompt (a question phrase) which participants responded for 5–15 minutes. After were invited discuss work. The cost-effective medical centers time-efficient employees. program's volunteer who had participated in train-the-trainer program. To maximize time efficiency employees, each cycle limited eight weekly 1-hour sessions. program initiated January 2021 (VA) Boston Healthcare System VA Connecticut HCEs; 2024, VHA authorized national expansion program, renamed Writes. An anonymous postworkshop survey administered all at end 8-week cycle. 131 respondents (75.7% response rate) strongly agreed that provided reflect (94.7%); tools effectively bear witness experiences this extraordinary (80.2%); community create, share, talk (91.6%); positive effect interactions (65.6%); lives outside work (74.8%). Responses did not differ statistically between sessions original leaders facilitators-in-training. This replicable scalable minimal cost using HCE without formal experience.

Language: Английский

Toward an Interpersonal Neuroscience in Technologically Assisted (Virtual) Interactions

Journal of Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 43(21), P. 3787 - 3788

Published: May 24, 2023

Social interaction is a fundamental aspect of our daily lives across the life span. In recent times, there has been an effort by scientists to shift from single-brain research multibrain or interpersonal neuroscience ([Pan et al., 2022][1]), with aim advancing understanding neural

Language: Английский

A Neuroscience Approach to Women Entrepreneurs’ Pitch Performance: Impact of Inter-Brain Synchrony on Investment Decisions

Understanding innovation, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 213 - 225

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Language: Английский