Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Occupational health encounter as a healing encounter

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Optimal health WHO: “a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Definition of health Health = absence of disease + healthy behaviours + healthy interaction with environment

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting What is healing Healing is the process of recovery, repair and return to wholeness – salutogenesis. Retain health (prevention) Process of recovery, repair, reintegration and renewal from injury and illness Increase resilience, coherence and wholeness

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Involves whole person- physical, mental, social, spiritual and environmental Unique personal and communal process and experience Healing may or may not result in cure. Focus is on SELF CARE

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting HEALING CURE Self-care Health-care

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting The illness-wellness continuum Illness-wellness Cure Healing

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Components of healing Develop intention and awareness Experience of wholeness Relationship centered care Health promotion with self care and lifestyle skills Collaborative treatment Spiritual domain

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Intention and Awareness Intention- influence the motivation for change, understanding and compliance Being fully present with positive intention for another- perceived by other, enhance healing Truly connect with intention we first have to connect with ourselves Pt care start with ourselves MINDFULNESS

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Wholeness Health result of dynamic balance of bio- psychosocial and spiritual influences Facilitate healing- develop insight into how these factors are expressed in each unique individual and ourselves Explore mind, body, emotions and spirit to best understand how to facilitate positive change

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Relationship-Centered care Relationship is bond that removes isolation and fear. Enhances insight, understanding and sense of control. Trust enhance social connection, fosters communication, empathy and compassion Helps to releases unhealthy emotions Leads to optimism and positive expectations Improve efficiency of care

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Healing organization Culture supports optimal health WHO definition health: state of optimal physical, social, spiritual and environmental well-being Well-being : state of being healthy, happy, productively contributing to one’s community and satisfied with one’s life Appropriate leadership, team work and technology to create

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Healing place Respect and communication between team Feel safe to deal with conflict Be empowered to contribute towards improvement Healing starts with modelling of self care and core values by leaders Flows into mission, vision, planning and behaviour of health care teams

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Enhance health habits Empower individual how to best take care of him/her self Both provider and patient are active participants in healing process All healing is self-healing Facilitate id to take care of themselves Nutrition, physical activity, lifestyle choices, management of stress and anxiety

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Collaborative medicine Person centered – understand pt story- triggers, antecedents Integrative approach Use most effective tools possible to facilitate health- conventional or complementary Begin with less invasive measures before costly Team of providers to offer practices for healing Combines best of technology- least harmful, most effective approach is used

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Spiritual connection Journey toward, or experience or connection with source of ultimate meaning as defined by each individual Includes connection with self, with nature, with a higher power Facilitate awareness of these connections- enhance a sense of purpose for living, reduce suffering and optimize self-healing Most effective tools to help change unhealthy behaviour

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Healing spaces Physical structure Nature, colour, light, fresh air, music, fine arts, architecture Create space that influence health and well-being of those who enter the space

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Current model The terms allopathic or conventional medicine typically refer to “western”/ orthodox medicine as practised by the "scientifically" trained medical doctor in hospitals and clinics throughout the world.conventional medicine Mind and body medicine seperate Evidence based – linear relationship between single treatment and cure of disease

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Allopathic medicine Disease is caused by a specific aetiological agent e.g. bacteria, virus, injury, organ or system dysfunction The patient is a passive recipient of medical intervention The body is viewed in a mechanistic way - a machine rather than part of a person who exists in a complex social environment

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Restoring health usually requires the use of medical technology and advanced scientific procedures Health of a society is largely dependent on medical knowledge and the availability of medical resources

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Integrative model Healing-oriented medicine Systems approach Whole person (body, mind and spirit), Lifestyle and function Behavioural change Therapeutic relationship Appropriate therapeutic approaches (biological/body mind/ musculoskeletal/surgical) Healthcare professionals (including alternative) Various disciplines Evidence-based approach.

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Optimal Healing Environment A system and place comprised of people, behaviors, treatments and their psychological and physical parameters. Its purpose is to provide conditions that stimulate and support the inherent healing capacities of the participants, their relationships and their surroundings.

Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting Occupational health How do we change an occupational health encounter as a healing encounter ?

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