Path2Green…An award-winning Emotional Resilience Program

February 27, 2024, Announcement from the White House of the United States . . .

"Congratulations on being part of a movement of leaders who are working to end hunger, building healthier communities and reducing diet-related diseases by 2030, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. We appreciate your partnership."

Many thanks,
Will McIntee, Senior Advisor, Office of Public Engagement
The White House

 

Building Healthier Communities includes having time and space to play and rest, balance in our work-life, having a sense of safety and belonging in your community, building skills and awareness for how to reach out and serve with ease, flow and peace, and finding, savoring and enjoying nutritious delicious food.

 

Why did the initiative award the Path2Green with this honor?

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Path2Green is one of 141 programs identified as beneficial to the national White House and CDC Foundation Initiative to build healthier communities by 2030. We are grateful to be named and to offer one of the simplest, yet profound approaches to well-being ever developed. The Path2Green is an Emotional Resilience program, that has been awarded over $7,000,000 in research and development grants. The Path2Green is an innovative evidence-based model for personalized health and well-being, having been published and presented at over 30 international and national conferences in multiple formats. This program is developed from core training delivered over the past 15 years, in academic medicine venues for thousands of patients, residents, medical students and other educational and healthcare professionals. 

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At the heart of the Path2Green program is its commitment to providing knowledge, skills and experiences for building and sustaining Learner Well-Being Communities (LWC). What is an LWC? It’s simply a relational community of two or more, committed to thriving, flourishing and optimizing its potential for greater health and well-being. Examples of LWCs that have benefitted from the Path2Green model: medical students, residents, education networks, lifestyle medicine and group medical visits, healthcare employees, health coaches, nutrition professionals, practicing physicians in large health care networks, psychologists and counselors, nurses coordinating care teams, elder care and support teams, human resource and rural health communities. New LWCs are being created all the time in places of work and worship. You are already a part of so many LWCs, in your relationships at home, work, worship and play. 

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We so appreciate your interest in our Path2Green emotional resilience training program. We’d love to have you (or members of your staff/team) participate in our P2G Professional Train-the-Trainer 30-hour Certificate Program in November. In keeping with our White House commitment, this training will be offered at no charge. We are happy to include your department as a pilot site for the White House/CDC Foundation Initiative, as such, you will be free to use the logos above in promotion of your work with us.

 

Train the Trainer Overview: Coaching Program for Healthcare Professionals, Paraprofessionals and Educators

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The Path2Green is based on research in positive psychology, neuroscience and systems biology. People of all ages, all walks of life and cultures have benefited from the Path2Green. Its focus is assisting personal growth through the establishment of micro-choices in order to neurosculpt greater well-being for lasting change.

 

Benefits of the P2G Professional Train-the-Trainer 30-hour Certificate Program for Healthcare Professionals, Paraprofessionals and Educators:

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• An opportunity to lead and optimize an LWC in your chosen community.

• An opportunity for a provider or educator to grow their own peak performance for full work-life balance.

• See this as new tool to enhance relationships within clients or teams to build new resilience skills and emotional balance.

• Providing a new, simple and accessible toolkit that makes lifestyle change possible.

• Build a Learner Well-Being Community model to provide foundational support for transformational behavioral change.

• Create an opportunity for medical students, residents and learners of all kinds to experience the impact of resilience and positive lifestyle choices on health and well-being.

• Apply advanced neuroscience, positive psychology and sustainable behavioral change research in healthcare and educational environments.

• Participate in clinical research to advance scholarship opportunities for your academic medical center.

• Access to National Training and Research Collaborative (NTC), a repository for education and collaboration in the  primary underlying sciences that form the foundation of successful clinical practice relating to restoring health to those with chronic disease.​

 

Forming Learner Well-Being Communities (LWC) is our way to meet the demands for health promotion nationwide. We invite you to help others explore their own Path2Green, finding more and more moments of satisfaction, in the moment, on demand.

 

Train-the-Trainer Calendar Dates for 2024

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October 9, 4:30-6:30 ET – Train the Trainer Preview Session (Recorded)

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October 15-16, 4:30-6:00 ET - Resident Coaching Shadow Sessions with Dr. Snapp (HIPPA disclaimer, Recorded)

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November 6th – December 4th 4:30-6:30 ET – (no session Nov. 27th) Training Session

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The recorded sessions can be reviewed on your own to satisfy the attendance requirement.

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Attendance is required for all 4 Training Sessions for skill acquisition. Please be sure you can attend all 4 sessions before you apply for the training. However, in case of emergency, if you miss a training session, we ask you to meet with us 30-minutes prior to the next session.

 

Required for 30-hour Professional Certification:

 

Application Process

 

Required Readings

 

Milestone Proficiency – prepared to deliver program in an academic setting, designed to plug and play into existing academic medicine/educational curricula

 

Mandatory Shadow Sessions

 

Daily Practice

 

Practice coaching sessions

 

Attendance at the Training Sessions

 

Proficiency with the Messaging System Coaching Form

 

Proficiency with the Satisfaction in Action Worksheet

 

Proficiency with the Relationship with Self and Other Worksheet

 

Based on the Learner Well-Being Community Model from the Office of Personalized Health and Well-being at the Medical College of Georgia’s AU/UGA Medical Partnership

 

 

Train the Trainer Overview: Coaching Program for Healthcare Professionals, Paraprofessionals and Educators

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The Path2Green is based on research in positive psychology, neuroscience and systems biology. People of all ages, all walks of life and cultures have benefited from the Path2Green. Its focus is assisting personal growth through the establishment of micro-choices in order to neurosculpt greater well-being for lasting change.

 

 

Click on the "Apply Now!" link to complete the application. You will be notified of your acceptance and receive additional information along with the Zoom link for the Preview Session October 9 4:30-6:30 pm ET.

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If you have any questions, please email us at Path2GreenUGA@gmail.com.

 

Cathy A. Snapp PhD, 
AU/UGA Medical Partnership | Campus Director of Behavioral Health | Director of the Office of Personalized Health and Well-Being | Director Behavioral Health, St. Mary’s Internal Medicine Residency Program | Director Behavioral Health, Piedmont Athens Regional Internal Medicine Residency Program | Athens, GA.

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Cell: 850-491-2189

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Geralyn M. Russel, Founder Sense8 Studio, P2G Co-Developer, MBN Lead Consultant.