2025Wellness Program
Sutter East Bay Medical Group
2025 Wellness Retreats @ Nicasio Creek Farm
May 18th
August 24th
October 18th
*These retreats are grant-funded and available to SEBMG Physician/Clinicians at ZERO COST
“This retreat will give you the words to explain what you’ve been feeling, allow connection with others that have been struggling with the same mindsets, and learn useful tools to change.”
-Sutter East Bay OB/GYN
True Wellness Does Not Come Through Conference Room Lectures, PowerPoints, Checklists, or Health Fairs
Discover true health and well-being through
coaching and mindset work,
physical and emotional repletion,
nervous system retraining, and
connection and community.
“The first step in being present and purposeful is understanding the learned behaviors that drain our energy and create negative emotions. This retreat helped me recognize and unlearn those behaviors, AND provided helpful tools to work and live with calm and purpose.” - Arzou Ahsan, MD, CEO, ObGyn
“These retreats should be offered to every medical professional on a bi-annual basis to learn and to be reminded of the power of mindfulness and need for self-care.”
-Sutter East Bay Family Medicine
Jessie Mahoney, MD
Jessie is a board-certified Pediatrician, certified physician and leadership coach, an experienced physician wellness leader, and yoga and mindfulness teacher.
She practiced pediatrics and was a physician health and wellness leader at The Permanente Medical Group from 2002 to 2020. In 2020, she left TPMG and her pediatric practice to found Pause & Presence. She now supports her colleagues in medicine full-time. She shares exactly what they need to be able to practice medicine in today’s healthcare environment and remain healthy and whole. She cohosts the Healing Medicine Podcast, leads coaching, yoga, and culinary medicine retreats for individuals and teams, and speaks nationally on health, wellness, and sustainability in medicine
Find out more about Jessie here.
“This retreat was like medicine for life!”
Tentative Retreat Day Schedule
9:30 am
Arrival, Tea, & Nourishment
9:45 am - 10:45 am
Connections & Intentions
11 - 11:15 am
Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Why You Are The Way You Are
(& How You May Be Making Your Hard Job Even Harder)
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Forest Bathing & Mindful Tasting
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Farm-to-Table Experience and Community Building
2:00 - 2:30 pm
Attend to Your Parasympathetic Nervous System: Sound Healing
2:45 - 3:45 pm
“The School of Unlearning” - Professional Mindset Coaching
3:45 - 4:15 pm
Transition Well - Tools and Strategies for Successful Integration
“Jessie is truly a deep, wise, curious, brilliant teacher. “
- TPMG Physician Leader
“This retreat is unique. It is run by a physician who understands the challenges of being a physician, how our training magnifies stresses, and the pathophysiology behind the stress and interventions.”
- Stanford MD
“I am still feeling the glow of the empowerment that comes with having new frameworks to apply and skills to practice. So many ideas resonated with me. How Dr. Mahoney frames lessons is different and hits home uniquely and powerfully.”
- Dr. Jennifer Guy, Surgeon California Pacific Medical Center
“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.”
- Dr. Samara Nebenzahl, Sutter East Bay Medical Group
As a SEBMG Physician or APP, you can also opt-in to Discounted CME-Accredited Professional Coaching
Professional coaching empowers you with tools and strategies to maintain a fulfilling and successful medical career by helping you reduce burnout, anxiety, self-doubt, shame, imposter syndrome, and guilt. It is a proven, evidence-based intervention designed to lessen burnout and emotional exhaustion and improve resilience and quality of life.
Coaching helps you take better care of yourselves, your family, and your patients.
“Powerful, inspirational, and transformative!!! Jessie Mahoney is nothing but phenomenal, wise, bright, and fun.”
- ICU, Cleveland Clinic
“If you are burned out, tired, or needing any coaching and reframing, Jessie is mind-blowingly amazing.”
–Emergency Medicine, Minnesota
“Jessie offered so many pearls that resonated and helped me understand how a lot of my thinking is defined by and a product of the medical training culture.”
-Oncology, Stanford University
“Coaching helped me to realize my thought patterns that are contributing to dissatisfaction at work.
It showed me that modifying my interpretation and ruminating less on certain aspects can allow me to focus on the fulfilling aspects of my life and job.”
CME Learning Objectives for SEBMG Retreats and Coaching
Recognize thought patterns taught in medical training that add to the stress and distress of working in a broken healthcare system.
State the core concepts of mindfulness and describe how they can act as an antidote to burnout, stress, and emotional exhaustion.
Explain the physiology of shame, blame, self-judgment, guilt, and how they hinder your ability to learn from real or perceived mistakes.
Describe the physiology of self-compassion and how it helps you navigate challenges.
Employ strategies to increase self-compassion and mindful acceptance
Utilize mindfulness and mindset strategies to move forward more nimbly in the face of stress, uncertainty, and lack of control.
Practice mindfulness and activate the parasympathetic nervous system to lessen reactivity, irritability, and anxiety.
Apply mindful communication strategies.
Employ the science of intention setting to navigate challenging conversations and situations.
Other Pause & Presence CME Wellness Retreats to enjoy
Mindful Coaching, Yoga & Culinary Medicine @ Nicasio Creek Farm in Nicasio, CA
Honoring Diastole @ Pie Ranch in Pescadero, CA
