Game Changing Team Development for Healthcare Leaders – 1 Activity at a Time is designed for unit managers, nurse educators, physician leaders and anyone who works with healthcare teams. The idea is to teach you how to facilitate simple (VERY SIMPLE) medical improv activities with your staff a few minutes at a time. Next in person (York, ME – Nov 6) and online (Nov 1) sessions we will focus on “The Gift”. Adapted from Kat Koppett’s Training to Imagine, there are many variations and applications for healthcare teams in the dynamic exchange of invisible gift-giving.
One nurse teaches “The Gift”!
Dear Beth, I just wanted to let you know that yesterday at our monthly nurse staff meeting, I led our team in a medical improv activity for the first time. It turned out that we had just enough time at the end of “business” to allow for it so we did.
I didn’t know until the moment the torch was passed to me that we’d be able to – so impromptu improv! I had planned to do the Radical Acceptance activity for the introductory one for this group, whenever it was going to happen, but ended up reassessing and tweaking the plan.
It had been a rough week for our health center team. We work very closely with several wonderful counselors and one of them had died unexpectedly. The funeral had been the previous day.
This staff member had only been with us for a year and was loved and respected by all. We had lost such a dear soul. So I decided that our energies were more aligned with doing The Gift.
How did it go?
It was a big group – 18 of us there! – but we did it just as we sat in a circle around the big conference table and it was amazing. The smiles! The laughter! The surprises! It felt like just what the group needed. I think everyone appreciated doing it, even though it meant bumping up against the edges of some comfort zones. I received some nice comments and thanks about it afterward. I hope we’ll be able to do more of this on a regular basis.
As you can tell, it didn’t take a lot of time and had a profound effect on the team. Not only that, but this was the first time this nurse taught the activity. The first time she taught any medical improv activity for that matter!
The best way to understand how this teaching modality can help your team or or organization is to experience it. Please consider learning how to facilitate The Gift or Radical Acceptance and other simple activities with your team at one of the train the trainers through Dartmouth Health offered in May 2023. Or reach out to schedule a session for your management team.
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