Care of the Hopeful Heart: Resilience & Well-Being in the Healthcare Setting

Robert Wicks, PsyD and Gloria F. Donnelly, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCPP

March 9, 2025

Date and Time Details: Sunday March 9, 2025 2-4pm

Location: Cranaleith Spiritual Center OR virtually via zoom

Address: 13475 Proctor Road, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Contact: programs@cranaleith.org
215-934-6206

  • $75.00 – In person program price includes program, Q&A, copy of the book, light refreshments with fellow attendees and the authors
  • $40.00 – Program price includes program, Q&A in a virtual format (does not include a copy of the book)
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During this event, Drs. Bob Wicks and Gloria Donnelly will consider the general issues of resilience, self-care and secondary stress within the healthcare professions, pressures experienced in reaching out to others and maintaining a healthy perspective–essentially:  the simple care of a hopeful heart.

 

This event focuses on the spiritual care of the healthcare provider as they face the unique stresses and joys of the profession.

 

Following this talk, the authors will follow with a brief Q & A and a time for signing books with those present.

 

There are two options to register for this program:

  • in person includes the program, Q&A session with Bob and Gloria, copy of the book “Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being”, and sharing light refreshments with fellow attendees and the authors.
  • virtual, held via zoom, includes the program and Q&A session with Bob and Gloria.

 

 

 

About the Facilitators

Robert Wicks, PsyD

Dr. Robert Wicks has spoken on his major areas of expertise—resilience, self-care, and the prevention of secondary stress (the pressures encountered in reaching out to others)—on Capitol Hill to Members of Congress and their Chiefs of Staff, led a course in resilience in Beirut for relief workers brought there from Aleppo, Syria, spoken at Johns […]

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Gloria F. Donnelly, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCPP

Gloria Donnelly is a longstanding proponent of self-care and resilience building strategies beginning with her book, Coping with Stress: RN’s Survival Sourcebook Medical Economics Press, 1983 and most recently, with Dr. R. Wicks, Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice, Oxford University Press, 2021. As the recently retired Editor in Chief of the refereed […]

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