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Exposed and Examined! Three Major Factors Threatening The Quality of Frontline Canadian Health Care What Are They? What Can You Do About Them? Straight Up Views From The Frontline by Attention Training Expert, Author, and Nurse, Aaron McNaught RPN/CHT Check It Out Right Here

" ... should be made part of basic training for nurses and all care providers."
~ Derrick Whyte - RPN - Sun Country Health Region

"Thanks for your unique presentation at the World Alzheimer Day Conference (2007). Your talk inspired, was helpful and full of hope!"
~ Donna Durand - Red Deer Chapter, Alzheimer Society

" ... an encounter with Aaron can be life changing. My highest recommendations."
~ Marlin Marynick - RPN - Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region.

"Aaron's words have affected my Life in ways I couldn't have imagined..."
~ Dawn Hallworth - RPN - David Thompson Health Region

" ...very interesting, fun, and also really bring from the heart the real meaning of life."
~ Della Thiemann - Saskatoon Health Region

" ... allowed me to feel tender, real, and welcomed emotions."
~ Leona Stewart - Regina Qu'Appelle Health District

 

Care That Comes From The Heart

Health Care Providers face a variety of unique challenges in the delivery of their services.

Increased demands on time, energy, skills, patience, and attention, places the Health Care Provider in a position of increased responsibility and opportunity.

This page is dedicated to the exploration of a variety of perspectives and skills designed to dramatically enrich the experience of the Health Care Provider, as well as those being cared for.

Attention Training is a 5000 year old discipline that forms the core of the world’s wisdom traditions. Far from dry or abstract, Attention Training is immediately practical and useable, coloring ones experience with curiosity, wisdom, creativity and humor.

In my seminars and trainings we will use a variety of hands on exercises, explorations and discussions to help you to come to understand the benefits of Attention Training as it relates to such topics as the provision of Health Care, personal development, enhanced job satisfaction, safety, intimacy, communication and the ability to offer a type of caring attention that comes deep from the heart.

 

Health Care Related MP3 Audio Clips and PDF Files

Waking Up to the Heart of Care MP3 Audio File - (30:00 Minutes)
A series of seven short audio clips from a talk called Waking Up to the Heart of Care, recorded live October 17, 2007 in Regina, Saskatchewan, at a Home Care Conference organized by SAHO.

Waking Up to the Heart of Care Workshop Transcript PDF - (14 Pages) BRAND NEW!
Select transcripts from a Waking Up to the Heart of Care workshop Aaron provided to 100 Health Care Providers in his hometown of Regina.

Waking Up to the Heart of Care Brochure PDF (4 Pages)

Waking Up to the Heart of Care Interview MP3 Audio - (20:00 Minutes) BRAND NEW!
Listen as Judy and Aaron discuss the ideas and practices contained in Aaron's new book Waking Up To The Heart of Care, as well as the seminars outlined here

 

Health Care Related Articles

The Practice and Life Path of Opening Your Heart BRAND NEW!
There are many good causes to dedicate your life to. Living with an open heart and sharing your Life from that place is the topic of this short article.

Bridging the Heart and Mind: The Practice of Stopping and Returning
Written for the World Alzheimer's Day Conference, September 21, 2007 in Red Deer, Alberta.

Attention Training and The Location, Magnification and Expression of Benevolence
A Blog entry that explains the practice of opening and sharing the heart. This is an awesome,
life changing way of life for the Health Care Worker.

Contact Aaron Here and Now and ask for a sample CD of a recent workshop he offered to Care Providers. Full of practical wisdom, insight and humor, this 30 minute CD will be delivered to your door. See what they're saying

Waking Up to the Heart of Care Brochure PDF (4 Pages)

 

What Do We Mean By 'Care'?

As a 12th year Registered Psychiatric Nurse, I've often wondered what we mean by the word 'care'.

If we look at the phrase, 'to provide care', care can be seen as a visible action and a thing that can be given or exchanged from one person to another. Care is a verb.

In this sense, providing care can include such activities as taking blood samples, dispensing medications, performing an MRI, taking a temperature, giving an enema, conducting an interview, and starting an I.V.

But these activities do not address the quality of interaction, concern and compassion that could also be offered as part of the provision of care. The human factor is not implicit in these care providing activities, and demands extra attention in order to clearly and strongly convey a kindness, gentleness and human touch.

 

Our Quality of Care, Compromised?

In my experience, establishing and conveying a quality of care as suggested above is not always easy. There are numerous factors that can cause us as Health Care Providers to compromise the quality of care we offer our clients, residents and patients.

Relentless stress, too many hours on the job, a difficult home life, job disatisfaction, and frustration with those we care for, can cause us to momentarily, yet unnecessarily, compromise the quality of our care. When the quality of our care has been compromised, it is for one reason: We have fallen asleep, eyes wide open.

To be asleep is to become lost in our experience and consumed by emotion and thought, losing touch with our larger reality and perspective. This is the reactive state, and it is responsible for our most unskillful actions, words and thoughts.

 

Waking Up to the Heart of Care

Conversely, to be awake is to maintain an alert, energetic and stable attention, staying in contact with our direct experience and offering a care that comes from the heart. This is the responsive state, which allows us to remain in contact with our basic kindness, wisdom, and humor.

Are the qualities of kindness, patience, compassion, attentiveness, and care, negotiable? Asked differently, are there situations where it is O.K. to be unkind, impatient, uncaring, inattentive and apathetic?

• What kind of situations put you out of your heart, causing you to speak and act with indifference, impatience or unkindness?
• What are the triggers that cause you to react from a busy mind, rather than respond from a gentle heart?
• What kind of people cause your heart to close down, and cause your mind to create harmful mental stories and judgements?

With Attention Training we can come to understand and work skillfully with these types of difficulties.

In fact, we can begin to use the workplace and the very situations that cause us difficulties to open our hearts and share a kind of care that is non-negotiable. We can use the workplace to Wake Up to the Heart of Care, and in the process learn how to bless those we care for, in the workplace, in our homes, and beyond...

Contact Aaron Here and Now and ask for a sample CD of a recent workshop he offered to Care Providers. Full of practical wisdom, insight and humor, this 30 minute CD will be delivered to your door. See what they're saying

Waking Up to the Heart of Care Brochure PDF (4 Pages)

 

Comments from the 2007 SAHO Homecare Conference on Aaron's Waking Up to the Heart of Care: Good sense of humor, interesting and relevant. Excellent... ...Very easy to listen to - this was a new experience for me. I liked his humanity and humor. Relevant and eye openning... Spoke from the heart. So relevant to busy work days... Dynamic, great speaker... ...I would strongly recommend this speaker and discussion - very knowledgable. ...Your zest for life is infectious!! Your spirituality illuminates. Excellent information and knowledge to bring into your life and use right now... ...Very easy to listen to - has a gift as an awesome presenter. I thank you very much for speaking at a time when I needed it most... ...Motivational, humorous, gave good examples to express his ideas. Instilled hope for a better way to live....