Coaching, Retreats & Workshops For Teams & Institutions
“Invaluable! I wish I had done this course a long time ago.”
Exactly What Your Team Needs
Is your team exhausted, overwhelmed, and burnt out?
Pause and Presence retreats, workshops, and virtual coaching programs are an opportunity to restore, connect, and transform — collectively and as individuals.
They are an investment in rebuilding community, collegiality, optimism, and hope.
Fulfillment, engagement, improved performance, productivity, fulfillment, and retention inevitably follow.
“Jessie has a gift and I am so grateful she chose to share it. It is my mission to help my others who are struggling, like I was before I came to her retreats, by spreading the word about her work everywhere I can. ”
— Chief Infectious Disease, TPMG
Wellness That Works
The way we were taught to think during professional training helps us complete the arduous process of training but makes it challenging to enjoy sustainable, satisfying, and “well” careers.
Trained “thought patterns” add to the stress and distress of working in a broken healthcare system. They also seep into our personal lives, our parenting, and our intimate relationships.
I teach physicians, attorneys, and other high achievers to become aware of their habitual thought practices and how they impact their lives and careers.
Teams who join us leave happier, healthier, and more connected.
They have a shared language and are empowered with effective tools for moving forward more sustainably and productively.
“This was an amazing day and just what my soul needed! I would attend again any time of year, any day.”
- Primary Care, Sutter East Bay
“I can personally attest that as a Family Medicine physician and co-director of Primary Care as well as a mom of two young kids, with a commute, and a partner who also has a demanding job, I may have left a job I love if it weren’t for physician coaching and development.”
- Sutter East Bay Internal Medicine Physician
“Well” teams are more productive.
They function with more ease and efficiency AND they provide higher quality care.
Organizations I have worked with
“Don’t underestimate the potential positive practical impact of this experience on improving all aspects of your team’s life.
I encourage all physicians and all teams to invest in this.”
-Chair, Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, President, Santa Clara County Medical Association
Dr. Jessie Mahoney is a wellness expert, certified coach, and yoga and mindfulness instructor.
She is also a board-certified pediatrician and former institutional physician leader with over 20 years of experience leading physician wellness at The Permanente Medical Group/Kaiser Permanente.
In 2019, Jessie left TPMG to create Pause & Presence where she designs and facilitates wellness programs that offer exactly what she knows physicians need to navigate a sustainable and healthy career in medicine today.
Dr. Mahoney coaches individual physicians and other high-achievers. She leads bespoke and impactful wellness retreats for teams and individuals and she speaks nationally on the wellness “dilemma.” She is cohost of the Mindful Healers Podcast.
She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and UCSF Medical School.
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"Prepare for a day learning many critical life skills to help you. This retreat was like medicine for life.”
-Pediatrics, Sutter East Bay
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“Truly an amazing and transformative experience. Nourishing mind, body, and spirit. Jessie is amazing at what she does. ” - Physician Leader, Women In Cardiology
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“Jessie is fabulous facilitator - She is truly a deep, wise, curious, brilliant teacher.”
- TPMG San Rafael, APIC, ICU MD
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“ I loved gaining insight into some of the patterns that we have all developed during our training that may be affecting our experience today and how to recognize those patterns and beliefs that are contributing to our burnout and dissatisfaction.” -ER MD
Nicasio Creek Farm
“Dr. Mahoney brings the complete package to any wellness event. She is a dynamic leader, innovative teacher, engaging facilitator, and inspirational speaker whom I hold in the highest regard. ”
— Dr. John Chuck, Chief of Regional Physician Wellness, The Permanente Medical Group
Details
Retreats Include
Transformative interactive coaching and team building workshops, yoga and mindfulness sessions(s) with Dr. Jessie Mahoney, and a farm-to-table meal, tea, and treats created by Pause and Presence’s private chef, Mark Mahoney.
Retreats can also include cooking classes, forest bathing, and sound healing.
Location Options: Nicasio Creek Farm or Pie Ranch
Nicasio Creek Farm is a private 4-acre sunny oasis nestled amidst a redwood forest. It is 45 min north of San Francisco on the way to Point Reyes National Seashore. It is 15 min off the 101. It offers a creekside outdoor bamboo retreat/yoga deck, a beautiful indoor bamboo yoga studio, a large manicured lawn, an organic micro farm, and luxurious facilities.
Pie Ranch is a 14-acre sustainable farm on the San Mateo coast. It is 1 hour south of San Francisco, halfway between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz on Highway 1. It offers an outdoor kitchen, a barn for yoga, a sustainable farm, and hilltop ocean views. The facilities are rustic.
Cost: $10,000-$15,000 for 8-18 people
Need assistance brainstorming funding options?
As a former wellness leader in a large institution, Jessie is masterful at helping teams receive grant funding, institutional and HR support, and/or fund by cost-sharing using CME
“This was an amazing day and just what my soul needed! I would attend again any time of year, any day.”
- Primary Care, Sutter East Bay
“A day in nature with colleagues and Jessie is a fantastic investment in yourself and your future! We should all have the opportunity to experience coaching. ”
— Emergency Physician TPMG
Sample Retreat Day Schedule at Nicasio Creek Farm
9:30 am
Arrival, Tea, & Nourishment
9:45 am - 10:45 am
Connections & Intentions
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Yoga and Self-Compassion As Medicine
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
What Are You Practicing That’s Not Medicine?
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Nature As Medicine
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Food-As-Medicine Experience and Community Building
2:00 - 2:30 pm
Sound and Breath As Medicine: Attending to Your Parasympathetic Nervous System
2:45 - 3:45 pm
The School of Unlearning - Mindset, Mindfulness, & Self-Compassion Coaching
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Transition Well-Pearls to Successfully Integrate “Medicine for Life” into Your Life & Practice
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“As someone who has never had professional coaching, I was not sure if I would think that the topics or tools would be necessarily applicable to me. I was blown away by how much what Jessie said resonated. I could not be more grateful for this experience.”
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“What an absolute joy! Should be a required course! So glad I went.”
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“Listening to learned wisdom from someone who has walked the same path as the rest of us, made it very authentic and genuine.“
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“Jessie offered so many pearls that resonated. She helped me understand how a lot of my thinking is defined by and a product of our training culture. She worked to identify actionable tools that would work for an individual and did not apply a “one-size fits all” approach. She truly listened and understood rather than simply providing information or lecturing.”
Sutter East Bay @ Nicasio Creek Farm
Virtual Coaching Workshops and Longitudinal Group Coaching Programs
Show humanism and a true commitment to sustainable and high-quality care by supporting your physicians and clinicians with mindset coaching.
Mindset coaching is integral to EVERY effective wellness program.
What is coaching?
It is an effective, high-quality, cost-effective, and evidence-based intervention designed to lessen burnout and emotional exhaustion and improve quality of life.
Coaching empowers you with tools and strategies to maintain a fulfilling and sustainable career by helping reduce burnout, anxiety, shame, imposter syndrome, guilt, over-responsibility, and toxic independence. You learn how to take better care of yourself, your family, and your patients/clients.
It’s simple, easy, and quick for Jessie to create an effective virtual coaching program for any institution, anywhere in the world. Reach out to design a program for your team.
What is Coaching Like?
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“Coaching is an incredible value - we need more of this as physicians, and as humans.”
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“The tools I learned apply to so many areas of work and life. I am already seeing a difference in myself and my interactions.”
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“The way Jessie communicates helps you understand the root of your issues and frustrations and makes solutions and changes feel simple to implement.”
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“Jessie reframed situations that allowed me to see things in a different light and invite peace and compassion into situations that initially felt stuck and hopeless. I feel ten times more resilient to the stresses of being a doctor “
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“Dr. Mahoney helped me understand my professional goals and how they align with, rather than compete with, my personal goals. She listened to my very specific concerns and helped me outline a plan for work that was achievable. “ - ANESTHESIOLOGIST
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“If you are burned out, tired, or need any coaching and reframing, Jessie is mind-blowingly amazing." - ER MD
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“When I started coaching I felt like I had to save myself or be a doctor. Now I can take care of myself AND do my job well.” - ONCOLOGY
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center @ Pie Ranch
Evidence Supporting the Efficacy of Physician Coaching in Improving Quality of Life and Decreasing Physician Burnout
Marin Health @ Pie Ranch