09/29-09/30 Baptist Healing Trust Leadership Retreat
The leadership team met offsite at the Palace Theatre in Crossville to learn about Radical Loving Care. Cathy Self, VP of BHT presented the concept of Radical Loving Care by asking the group to define "Radical" and what "Radical Loving Care" would look like, feel like, and smell like. Cathy defined the four relationships that make up the environment we work in: Self-Self, Caregiver-Caregiver, Caregiver-Leader, and Caregiver-Resident. She explained that like a bottle of wine where the first glass is the best and the last bit of the wine at the bottom, "the dregs", are bitter, we have to pay attention to our self’s in our mind, body, and spirit so we are always giving our best, not our "dregs".
We spent the last two hours of Monday at Laughing Bodies Yoga with Rebecca Dennis where we again learned that you have to take care of yourself first. Rebecca began the class by asking each person their name, what medical problems they had, and what they thought when Tammy (me) told them they were going to yoga. The group had many medical issues including pain and many responses to the yoga, but most of the responses were pretty positive. The group stretched and calmed the mind through poses and meditation. At the end of the session, Robin Gray said she had never felt more relaxed and several others felt no pain. The session was great and many of us are thinking about signing up for classes.http://www.laughingbodies.com/