2026Wellness Program

Sutter East Bay Medical Group

NEW: Virtual Small Group Coaching

The same curriculum and learnings from the retreat from home.

Details

Feb 24th - March 30th

Five Tuesday evenings, 5:30 - 7:00pm on ZOOM

Open to 12 clinicians

OR

In person Retreat at Nicasio Creek Farm

Saturday May 2nd, 10 am - 4 pm

Includes day in nature with your colleagues, farm-to-table lunch, sound healing, forestbathing and experiential mindfulness

Open to 18 clinicians

*This program is generously funded by a philanthropy grant. ONE retreat or small group coaching experience is free for SEBMG Physician/Clinicians.

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“This retreat was like medicine for life!” - SEBMG Pediatrician

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Details about Virtual Coaching

Highly Interactive 75 min sessions

Topics:

Neuroscience /Power of Intention

Trained Thought Patterns Holding You back

What Can You do to Change - Physiologic and Philosophic Mindfulness

Prerequisites for Change: Self Compassion, Shame, Blame & Guilt in Medicine

Tools to incorporate this into your life and practice (and to share it with your patients.)

Learn more about coaching here

“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

“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

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Your Coach & Retreat Leader: 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 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.

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

ENJOY AN AMAZING TRANSFORMATIVE DAY

“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 the need for self-care.” 

“Everyone should do it!”

“I took away granular and actionable tools to practice more mindfully, which will improve my patient care and my professional well-being.”

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“Would recommend to everyone and would come back in a heartbeat.”

“This was an amazing day and just what my soul needed! I would attend again any time of year, any day.”

The retreat was a “wonderful, collaborative, productive day.”

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“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

“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.”

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