Mindful Healthcare Summit

This is a free online event for medical professionals, students, and administrators examining how mindfulness and compassion practices can help address the complex issues of chronic stress, and overwork, and the epidemic of burnout among healthcare professionals.


  • Venue: Online
  • Date: May 23-28, 2019
  • Price: FREE

Registration is now open for the Mindful Healthcare Summit!

This is a free online event for medical professionals, students, and administrators examining how mindfulness and compassion practices can help address the complex issues of chronic stress, and overwork, and the epidemic of burnout among healthcare professionals.

The Summit will include practical, evidence-based tools to support clinician well-being, improve patient care, and examine how mindfulness and compassion can transform the very system of healthcare itself.

Speakers for this free event, May 23-27th, 2019, include leading experts and researchers in medicine, mindfulness, and high-level innovators on the frontlines of healthcare reform, including:

● Jon Kabat-Zinn, PHD: Founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
● Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN: Nursing professor, President, Mind & Life Institute
● Congressman Tim Ryan: Mindfulness advocate, 2020 Presidential candidate
● Kristin Neff, PhD: Author, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
● Bobby Mukkamala, MD: Member, AMA Board of Trustees
● Ron Epstein, MD: Author, Attending: Mindfulness, Medicine and Humanity
● And many others!

The Mindful Healthcare Summit will offer practical, evidence-based tools to help medical professionals learn to:

● Introduce mindfulness and compassion practices to steady the mind into a balanced state of relaxed readiness in the midst of daily high-stress work
● Build sustainable, long-term resilience and work-life integration
● Develop compassion in work and among teams to build cultures that promote camaraderie, clarity, and health
● The best practices and most common pitfalls to avoid when bringing mindfulness into healthcare settings.
● Case studies and interviews with the experts and administrators who are making it happen in hospitals and universities across the US –– including the cutting edge peer-reviewed research and case studies behind them.

Continuing education credits and contact hours are also available as part of the optional “Resource Package,” an upgrade option which gives life-time downloadable access to the program and additional resources.