This event is a full-day retreat held before the CFHA Conference. Add it to your registration when you sign up for the conference this October in St. Louis—or attend the retreat on its own, even if you’re not planning to attend the conference.
The purpose of this retreat is to help healthcare professionals cultivate a sustainable, fulfilling relationship with their work by reconnecting with their values, purpose, humanity, and sense of agency. Rather than focusing solely on preventing burnout, the retreat invites participants to explore the deeper human and spiritual dimensions of healthcare work. These aspects originally called many of us into service and continue to provide meaning in the midst of challenge. Through reflection, dialogue, and practical application, participants will be encouraged to intentionally design professional and personal lives that promote engagement, meaning, joy, connection, and long-term effectiveness.
Who should enroll in this course?
The primary audience is healthcare professionals working in demanding clinical environments, particularly those in primary care, community health, family medicine, behavioral health, and integrated care settings. However, the principles discussed are broadly applicable to anyone working in healthcare who wants to improve professional fulfillment, prevent burnout, strengthen resilience, and align their work with their personal values.
What You Will Learn
Participants will gain practical and reflective tools for sustaining engagement, purpose, and well-being throughout their careers. Specifically, they will develop:
- A framework for intentionally engineering a life and career that supports both personal well-being and professional excellence.
- Greater self-awareness regarding their values, motivations, and sources of meaning.
- Skills for assessing their personal and professional context and identifying factors that contribute to fulfillment or disengagement.
- Strategies for intentionally aligning daily behaviors with deeply held values and long-term goals.
- Tools for fostering resilience through reflection, gratitude, intentional rest, social connection, and purposeful engagement.
- Practical approaches for managing competing demands while maintaining a sense of agency and control.
- Increased understanding of how purpose, relationships, and spirituality contribute to professional fulfillment and sustainability.
Need more information about this course, or interested in registering a large group? Contact Jackie Poor Hahn at jhahn@cfha.net.
Key Info
Location:
This event will take place at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis, the site of the CFHA Conference, on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Cost:
- $1,000
- $799 for people also attending the CFHA Conference
CE Opportunities:
CEUs are offered
Meet your Instructors
Bridget Beachy, PsyD, a licensed psychologist, is dedicated to the integration of BHC services into medical settings. Dr. Beachy is currently the Director of Primary Care Behavioral Health at Community Health of Central Washington (CHCW; FQHC in Washington state), where she practices as a BHC and enjoys delivering clinical services to patients of all ages. Dr. Beachy has a passion for consulting and presents internationally, nationally and at the state and local levels.’
David Bauman, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist and principal member of Beachy Bauman Consulting. Dr. Bauman regularly consults with health systems around the globe regarding the integration of behavioral health into primary care, as well as helping providers and systems provide contextual and compassionate healthcare. He also serves as the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) Education Director at Community Health of Central Washington, where he oversees a variety of PCBH training programs (i.e., predoctoral psychology internship, post-doctoral psychology fellowship, and psychosocial medicine curriculum within the family medicine residency). Further, he is the Region Training Director of the National Psychology Training Consortium (NPTC)-Cascades Region psychology internship. Lastly, Dr. Bauman works as a Behavioral Health Consultant at Central Washington Family Medicine.
