Episode #101: Promoting Mental and Emotional Well-being through Peer Support featuring Dr. Jo Shapiro
Episode #101: Promoting Mental and Emotional Well-being through Peer Support featuring Dr. Jo Shapiro
Introduction to the Episode:
Dr. Jo Shapiro was the founding Director of the Center for Professionalism and Peer Support at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is an associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School..
Dr. Shapiro saw early on how the culture of medicine needed to better support physicians and how physicians could support each other. The center was intentionally designed to provide practical applications through programs that have become models for other institutions. Dr. Shapiro continues to educate and assist organizations in developing specific programmatic and educational approaches, such as peer support, well-being programs, professionalism initiatives, and conflict management.
We are so excited to bring Dr. Shapiro on to the show to find out why peer support is such a powerful solution to emotional well-being. Tune in as we explore organizational change, how to best support leaders, give people agency, combat isolation and how we can all be partners, not victims, in organizational change.
In the Episode We Discuss:
Neglecting self-care during a crisis
What drew Jo to peer-support programs
Pitching for the Center for Professionalism and Peer Support
Addressing the potential risks of peer support conversations
Writing the article ‘Supporting Clinicians during Covid-19 and Beyond’ with Timothy B. McDonald
What institutions can do to better support their clinicians’ emotional well-being
Why many well-being programs are underutilized
Viewing mental suffering as an occupational hazard – not ‘part of the job’
The role of leaders and why they need to strengthen their communication by listening to their people
How to support leaders, as well as those at the frontline, during the pandemic
How to shift away from the victimhood mentality by becoming a partner of organizational change
You may or may not realize this yet, but this episode is filled with pearls of wisdom and information that all leaders can benefit from, so don’t hesitate, listen now!
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