Doctor Heal ThySelf – Nova Salutem

Why?

In 2025 a report on the health of Canadian Physicians revealed 59% of women and 43% of men are experiencing high levels of burnout and 60% overall reported their health has worsened since the pandemic.

Everyday, physicians give of themselves as they work on the edges of humanity and our collective suffering.

They carry water for the system while carrying high emotional loads, physical demands, and heavy workloads.

Further to that labour, our doctors are chronically under-resourced, endure demanding duty calls, and are exposed to trauma, system breakdowns, moral fatigue, and distress.

Yes, physicians also experience success, joy, and deep connection with colleagues, community, and patients. However this is often mired in impossible stories of loss, unsolvable suffering, palpable pain, and the relentless calls to bear witness to terror and abandonment.

Physicians are the pillars of strength upholding our families while they pack down their own grief to keep delivering for us.

The data is out and the jig is up. Our providers have been quietly unraveling across Canada for years as our systems can no longer meet the chronic health needs of our Nation and indeed the world. Our doctors are the front lines of this seemingly endless battle and are often forced to make decisions no one should have to make.

As systemic failures continue Nova Salutem is inviting you to an opportunity for refuge.

This day dedicated to your growth will provide tools for a lifetime and illuminate what needs to be brought into 2026, and what needs to be left behind.

Together, we will define a clear and measurable pathway to more peace and calm, while the chaos continues during this unprecedented time in our history.

What?

The Daring Greatly™️ workshop was created for this very particular moment in time. A sacred pause for physicians to turn inward, reconnect with meaning, and reclaim the courage it takes to care for themselves as deeply as they care for others.

What Doctors Will Walk Away With

Renewed clarity, courage, and energy
Tools and methods to navigate personal integration work, burnout, moral injury and emotional fatigue
Shame resilience strategies grounded in Brené Brown’s research
Emotional literacy skills for healthier communication, boundary setting and maintaining & deeper connection in relationships
A personalized self-care and integration plan
Reconnection to purpose and values

How?

Doctor Heal ThySelf is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for doctors to be guided with care, back to the self through experiential learning as we work through the curriculum of Daring Greatly™ based on the groundbreaking research of Dr. Brené Brown. We recommend you read the book “Daring Greatly” or watch “the call to courage on Netflix” or her TedTalk on vulnerability prior to training (not required).

This experience is designed to help doctors reconnect, restore, and revive the self and the “why” you chose medicine.

What’s Included?

A Beautiful Training DAY at OceanStone (accommodation not included and we suggest you consider staying overnight at the spa! Book soon - accommodation will fill quickly and are limited!)

Doctors Only, Daring Greatly™ course at Oceanstone Resort & Spa. Oceanstone is a serene oceanside escape designed for rest and renewal. making it the perfect setting to return to yourSelf. Stay an extra day to unwind, enjoy the spa, walk the coastline, and reconnect with yourself in a peaceful, natural setting.
After our day of learning and nourishing our brains together, we will enjoy creating culinary delights with our personal Chef for the evening. You will be invited into an interactive and instructional experience of Italian wholehearted cooking and sit down together to a wonderful meal to conclude our adventure.
Connection, Clarity, and Community capacity building
Therapeutic care and methods for heart health
Gentle Morning Yoga
Access to the newly released and updated Daring Greatly™ curriculum
Small-Cohort, Intimate Learning Labs designed exclusively for doctors
Nova Scotia sourced seasonal meals, light snacks, and beverages throughout the day
Two Group Integration Circles pre and post-workshop

The Invitation

Doctors, we see you, we hear you, and this opportunity has been curated for you.

Are you ready to be braver with your OWN health, your OWN wellness, and your deeper connection with those you love, lead, and care for?

As 2025 comes to a close, our attention is forward facing and this opportunity may be the sign you need to do the “selfish” work of taking care of yourself.

Book your seat at our December table today! We can’t wait to meet you!

(8 doctors to make it launch, 16 max to maintain intimacy.)

Location: Oceanstone Resort and Spa, Nova Scotia
Presented by: Nova Salutem Inc.
Theme: Doctor Heal ThySelf
Method: Daring Greatly™️ by Dr. Brené Brown
Facilitated: Certified Facilitators Patricia Auchnie and Janna Hare

Cohort: Women Only | December 12th, 2025 | 08:00-8:00 (inclusive)

Cohort: Men Only | December 13th, 2025 | 08:00-8:00 (inclusive)

Why Us?

You will be learning from/with two seasoned Certified Daring Way™ Facilitators- Patricia Auchnie and Janna Hare who hold deep reverence for this life changing work. Together this dynamic duo honours the opportunity to be your guides on the adventure. Your facilitators also curate organizational development activities, train leaders and teams in communication, run private clinical therapy practices, and serve as executive coaches and consultants. More importantly, your facilitators are engaging, ethical, experienced, compassionate, boundaried, loving, creative, funny, and accountable women. Both have spent their careers partnering with people to illuminate pathways of choice in business and in personal life with practical tools to enhance your unique journey.

Detailed Learning Outcomes for Doctors

By the end of the Daring Greatly™ One-Day Workshop, physicians will be able to:

Recognize and name the impact of moral injury, burnout, and self-silencing
Understand how chronic exposure to suffering, high-pressure decisions, and system barriers erode well-being and learn clinical strategies for restoring psychological stamina.
Build shame resilience using Brené Brown’s four-step framework
Learn how shame presents in medicine (perfectionism, fear of mistakes, emotional suppression) and develop tools to move from self-criticism to grounded confidence.
Strengthen emotional literacy for clinical, relational, and personal contexts
Develop the ability to identify, process, and communicate emotions in a healthy, sustainable way- reducing risk of emotional numbing, disconnection, and compassion fatigue.
Deepen capacity for vulnerability as a leadership strength
Redefine vulnerability as courage- essential for empathy, difficult conversations, healthy boundaries, and authentic leadership.
Identify personal armour (perfectionism, over functioning, stoicism)
Recognize the protective strategies physicians rely on and learn evidence-based replacements that reduce stress and moral distress.
Enhance empathy without absorbing emotional burden
Strengthen connection while maintaining boundaries, preventing emotional overload and protecting your long-term well-being.
Re-align with core values to reduce internal conflict
Reconnect with your deeper purpose in medicine and identify practical ways to bring meaning, humanity, and clarity back into your daily practice.
Create a personalized integration plan for long-term change
Develop a practical, neuroscience-informed plan to apply workshop concepts through repetition, rest, reflection, and intentional action.
Strengthen connection with self, colleagues, family, and community
Move from isolation and fatigue toward grounded confidence, compassion, and resilience.
Leave with renewed energy, clarity, and self-trust
Consider this opportunity a sign? A sign to give yourself the permission to pause for a much needed reset. To step out of survival mode and back into your body, into intentional- wholehearted living, leading, and practicing.