Nonprofit SIG: Self-Care for Trainers and Instructional Designers

This interactive session will explore the self-care imperative, particularly in light of the extraordinary challenges of the past two years.   Together we will enter the topic through poetry and the humanities, and will collect best practices for taking care of self. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Any person that wears hats as a technical/subject matter expert, team leader, and trainer and would like actionable tips for developing presence on the classroom stage.

OUR SPEAKER: Dr. Jeffrey Ring is a health psychologist who works on projects related to health equity, medical education, integrated whole-person care and medical leadership.  As a health psychologist, he has served as the Director of Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Medicine at the Family Medicine Residency Program at White Memorial Medical Center in East Los Angeles where he taught mind-body medicine and doctor-patient communication as well as mental health screening and intervention along the lifespan.  He is also Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.  Dr. Ring has extensive clinical experience with health practitioner resilience and vitality through teaching, consultation and retreats.  As a certified leadership coach, he is interested in facilitating enlightened leadership and high functioning teams that promote innovation and participant well-being.  In 2016, Dr. Ring taught mindfulness in Spanish to approximately 1400 farm and agricultural workers in the Central Valley region of California.