Programs for you and your family (retreats, seminars and excursions)

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
— Chinese Proverb

"I attended Finding Balance with Hill Physicians Medical Group and I just wanted to thank you for a really incredible and hopefully life-altering experience. It is rare these days that an epiphany or opportunity to make changes comes by. Thank you for your wisdom and caring. Really a great time. Finding Balance is the best!" — Sandra M, MD

Finding Balance offers multiple seminars and activities for you, your significant others and your families. The programs are designed to help you relax, learn tools to manage stress, interact and communicate in healthier ways and regain energy in your work and home lives. Most programs are approved for Category 1 CME credits for physicians and CEU credits for nurses and therapists.

Two-three day seminars
These programs are interactive workshops designed to help you, with or without your significant other, to regain a sense of work-home balance.

This program will help you:

• Learn to counteract the stresses that can compromise your health.
• Focus on positive ways to communicate with your patients.
• Find a balance between work and home.
• Increase or restore your enthusiasm for practicing medicine.

"The Finding Balance weekend was incredible. My husband, Tim and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and believe that we got a lot out of the conference, especially skills that can be applied to practical use in everyday life. Finding Balance should be repeated on a regular basis. It was also a great opportunity to meet other physicians and their spouses. I look forward to developing lasting friendships with them." — An Attendee

Click here for upcoming seminar dates and locations.

"Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness; you can change yourself." — The Dalai Lama

Six day seminars
This program will provide tools to evaluate and understand the issues of our emotions in our work and home lives. It will combine discussions and experiential exercises designed to rejuvenate your mind, body and soul. You will leave with an understanding of the unique stresses that physicians, health care workers and medical families live with, and practical methods for changing the balance of your life and the lives of your patients.

The program includes:

• Stress management training based in meditation and emotional shifting
• Transformational breath work
• Visualization and perception shifting techniques
• Tools to evaluate your needs and behaviors
• Lots of down time - We work in the mornings and play most afternoons

Program graduates will be able to:

• Understand the relationship of stress and health
• Use tools to modify their stress responses
• Apply various communication techniques in their work and home lives
• Evaluate the aspects of their personalities that help and hinder their progress, personal growth and patient care
• Adapt action planning tools to create changes in their lives

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"In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you learn to let go?" — Jack Kornfield

Advanced retreat and mini retreats
Multiple other programs are offered by Finding Balance. For additional retreats, seminars and lectures, click here for upcoming dates and locations.

Additional lectures & workshops
Dr. Lipsenthal also does multiple lectures, grand rounds and programs in the following areas for physicians, medical students and residents, dental groups, nurses, lay audiences and other health practitioners.

• The Physician Personality: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
• The Physiology of Love
• Managing Medical Error
• Give 'Till it Hurts; Care Addiction in Medicine
• Integrative Holistic Health
• The Science of Connection and Relationships
• Managing Death and Dying