TPMG San Rafael Wellness & Lifestyle Medicine Retreat
@ Nicasio Creek Farm
“This retreat is like medicine for life.”
“It is profoundly impactful.”
Spend a day enjoying nature, connection, and community with your hospitalist colleagues
Sunday, September 21st, 2025
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Nicasio Creek Farm, Lucas Valley Road
Physician Coaching | Mindfulness | Soundhealing | Forestbathing | Community | Farm-to-Table Nourishment | CME
Attendance is limited to 18
“Outstanding experience. I wish everyone could do it.”
- TPMG SRF MD
Tend to yourself so you can tend to others.
Nourish your mind, body, spirit, and soul with a day of medicine and healing for you.
Lasting wellness is not found through conference room lectures, PowerPoint presentations, checklists, or health fairs.
This retreat is unlike any other.
You will leave empowered with actionable tools to transform your life and career going forward.
“Jessie has a gift and I am so grateful she chose to share it. It is my mission to help my colleagues who are struggling, like I was before I came to her retreats, by spreading the word about her work everywhere I can. ”
— Chief Infectious Disease, TPMG SRF
About Nicasio Creek Farm
Nicasio Creek Farm is a privately owned microfarm on Lucas Valley Road. It is 15 minutes off I-101 North, just down the road from Spirit Rock.
Nicasio Creek runs through the property which is home to deer and quail families, wind chimes, wooden sculptures, and abundant lovely breezes .
It features a large retreat deck under the shade of a beautiful California maple, a huge paddock filled with wildflowers in spring, golden grasses in the summer, and spectacular foliage in the fall. There is a private, beautiful bamboo yoga studio, a yoga lawn, and many gorgeous spots for reflecting, journaling, and forest bathing. There is also a large kitchen, a vegetable and herb garden, and a fruit orchard with apple, nectarine, plum, fig, and persimmon trees.
“A wonderful opportunity to pause and reflect on who you are as a physician, and a person. I took away very granular and actionable tools to practice more mindfully, which will improve my patient care, along with my professional well-being.”
- Hospitalst
Your Retreat Leader: Jessie Mahoney, MD
Jessie is a certified coach, yoga teacher, experienced physician wellness leader, and board-certified Pediatrician.
She practiced pediatrics and was a physician wellness leader at The Permanente Medical Group from 2002 to 2020. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and UCSF Medical School.
Jessie is the founder and CEO of Pause & Presence where she now focuses her full attention on supporting her physician colleagues with exactly what works best. She cohosts the Healing Medicine Podcast and also leads coaching, yoga, and culinary medicine retreats for individuals and teams.
Find out more about Jessie here.
“Jessie is truly a deep, wise, curious, brilliant teacher. “
- TPMG APIC SRF
Agenda
9:30 am
Arrival, Tea, & Nourishment
9:45 am - 10:45 am
Connections & Intentions
11:00 am - 11:15 am
Creating a Healthy Neurochemical Soup
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
What Are You Practicing That’s Not Medicine?
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm
Nourish Yourself Well
1 pm -1:15 pm
Nature As Medicine
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Food-As-Medicine Experience and Community Building
2:00 - 2:30 pm
Breathing & Sound As Medicine: Attend to Your Parasympathetic Nervous System
2:45 - 3:45 pm
The School of Unlearning - Mindset, Mindfulness, & Self-Compassion Coaching
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Transition Well -Takeaways and Tools for Integration
“I highly recommend the retreat–invaluable to bringing the humanity back into medicine and doctoring.
If you are feeling burnt out or stressed, it is a wonderful place to come and change.”
- ObGyn
“I would recommend it especially for those who think they don't have time–the retreat covered so much that will carry forward and I’ll grow on.”
-Pediatrics
Learning Objectives
Meaningfully shift your health and wellness beyond the retreat day
Recognize thought patterns that are 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, and guilt, and how these 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.
“Very valuable! Should be a required course!” - TPMG SRF MD
“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
“Incredibly valuable and a must for all physicians. The skills that are taught are highly actionable and lead to real change.” -San Rafael TPMG MD
“This is so valuable. Forget the zoom wellness events, or free apps.
What we need as physicians is this.
A day AWAY from our usual place of work. To be outside, to be with others, and to eat healthy food, and enjoy and learn transformative evidence-based recommendations for wellbeing and longevity. I did not realize how much I needed this.” - Palliative Care, UCSF“