Women in Medicine Wellness Retreat
"It will shift trajectory of your life for the better in ways you never expected!"
June 16th, 2025
9:30 am -4:30 pm @ Nicasio Creek Farm
*1 hr 20 min from Santa Clara
*Up to 12 units of accredited CME will be available for retreat and optional pre- and post-coaching work.
*Cost will be determined by the number of participants (max 18)
Discover true health and well-being
Coaching and mindset work
Physical and emotional repletion
Nervous system retraining
Connection and community
“This retreat was like medicine for life!”
- Pediatrician
“Jessie is so warm and wise. Regardless of how tightly wound up or zen you are on arrival, you will leave feeling lighter.”
-Trauma Surgeon
Tentative Retreat Day Schedule
9:30 am
Arrival, Tea, & Nourishment
9:45 am - 10:45 am
Connections & Intentions: The Science of Intention Setting
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am -11:15 am
Forest Bathing
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Why You Are The Way You Are & How You May Be Making A Hard Job Even Harder
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Yoga
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Farm-to-Table Vegetarian Plant-Forward Lunch & Community Building
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Attend to Your Parasympathetic Nervous System: Sound Healing
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
“The School of Unlearning” - Professional Mindset Coaching
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Transition Well - Tools and Strategies for Successful Integration
“This retreat will give you the words to explain what you’ve been feeling, useful tools to change your mindset, and offer connection with others who have been struggling with the same” - OB/GYN
“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
“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, Sutter Health, East Bay
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 create Pause & Presence where she supports her colleagues in medicine as a physician coach, speaker, and wellness consultant. She teaches her colleagues novel frameworks and actionable tools so they can practice medicine in today’s healthcare environment and remain healthy and whole. Dr. Mahoney offers 1:1, small group coaching, as well as individual and team retreats. All can offer CME credit.
She cohosts the Healing Medicine Podcast and speaks nationally on health, wellness, and sustainability in medicine
Find out more about Jessie here.
“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 Nebendzahl, Sutter East Bay Medical Group
Do you want to create a life in medicine that is more aligned and balanced?
Opt in to discounted CME-Accredited Professional Coaching as an add-on to your retreat
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.
Physician coaching is a proven, evidence-based intervention that lessens burnout and emotional exhaustion and improves 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
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.
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