Your Best Public Health Life: Well-Being and Impact (Introductory Course)
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Course Overview
Cultivate your public health well-being and impact. This weekend retreat-style course will equip you with tools and strategies to thrive in both your career and your personal life. Through a blend of self-discovery exercises, interactive sessions, and expert presentations, you'll gain clarity on your purpose, develop strategies to nurture your well-being, and create a personalized action plan to achieve balance and lasting impact.
In Person
October 10-11Learn tools and strategies to thrive in both your career and your personal life.
Participants in this course will:
- Define your "why": Explore your motivations for pursuing public health and reimagine what's possible in your career.
- Enhance well-being: Discover practices to strengthen your well-being including physical, mental, emotional, and intuition.
- Develop adaptability: Learn strategies to navigate challenges and uncertainty.
- Strengthen relationships: Explore practices to cultivate healthy relationships in your personal and professional life.
- Create an action plan: Develop a personalized plan to integrate well-being practices and strategies for achieving your public health goals.
- Staff, faculty, and public health professionals with experience in domestic or global public health work (including health care, academic, government, and civil society settings)
- Staff, faculty, and public health professionals who want to gain clarity on their career path and purpose, enhance their well-being and resilience, develop strategies for managing stress and maintaining work-life balance, and create a sustainable and impactful public health career
- Ready to join? Register here. Emory staff or faculty, complete this form and we’ll follow up.
- Have questions? Complete this form and we'll follow up.
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Define their purpose and motivation for their public health career and personal well-being
- Identify three or more strategies to support their public health career and personal well-being development
- Create an integrated 3-month personal action plan to adapt to career and personal well-being challenges and opportunities
- Ready to join? Register here. Emory staff or faculty, complete this form and we’ll follow up.
- Have questions? Complete this form and we'll follow up.
- Cost: $2,060
- This course is covered by the Emory Courtesy Scholarship for eligible faculty/staff. Please visit the Emory employee benefits page to learn more. Deadline to apply: August 15
- Emory Healthcare employees may be eligible for tuition benefits. Please visit the Emory Healthcare employee benefits page to learn more.
- Space is limited to 25 participants per session.
- Ready to join? Register here. Emory staff or faculty, complete this form and we’ll follow up.
- Have questions? Complete this form and we'll follow up.
This course offered incredible support, impeccable planning and intentionality, great resources, a diverse group (in all angles), and such caring verbal and non-verbal language.
Angela Rozo, previous staff participant
Faculty
Course Instructors
Juan Leon, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Global Health
Shannon Weber, MSW, Impact for Good, LLC
Coming in yesterday, my concerns seemed insurmountable... As I leave today I no longer feel that any issues are unsolvable. I now see a way forward.
Mike Caudle, previous faculty participant
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