About Mindful Healthcare
Mindful Healthcare provides training in mindfulness, communication, and resiliency for public and private groups, from large corporations like Apple and Kaiser TPMG, to smaller start-ups and community nonprofit organizations. We believe that the inner life and well-being of employees is an essential foundation for excellence, innovation, and effective teamwork.
Our public workshops and private trainings offer practical tools to reduce stress, enhance collaboration, and improve outcomes. We offer an integrated approach to professional development, weaving together intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. Our work draws from the fields of mindfulness meditation, Nonviolent Communication, spiritual care, and trauma healing.
Evan A. Wong and Oren Jay Sofer bring more than twenty five years of combined training in the contemplative arts, Nonviolent Communication, and spiritual care to their work and training in the healthcare community.
Trainers
Oren Jay Sofer
Oren Jay Sofer has been practicing mindfulness meditation and Nonviolent Communication for over two decades, and teaching nationally since 2008. His work integrating awareness into the field of communication stands at the cutting edge of interpersonal studies.
Oren is a CNVC Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for the healing of trauma. He holds a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University, and is the author of Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication and co-author of Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents.
Evan A. Wong
Evan A. Wong works in palliative care medicine as a Board Certified Interfaith Chaplain. She has a special interest in bringing tools from contemplative practice into healthcare for symptom management, spiritual distress, and resilience. She serves as a co-lead for the Kaiser Northern California Palliative Care Chaplains Peer Group and has published a chapter in Palliative Care for Frontline Clinicians on responding to spiritual hope and suffering during goals of care conversations.
Evan completed her chaplaincy training at University of California San Francisco Medical Center with a focus in palliative care and is endorsed as a faith leader in healthcare by the Insight Meditation Center, Redwood City. Evan brings over ten years of training in mindfulness meditation and Nonviolent Communication to her work in hospitals, where she promotes ethics and compassion in all interactions.
“Our passion for this work comes from our personal experiences with chronic illness, as well as our deep and long-standing interest in health and well-being.”
Advisory Board
Rev. Denah Joseph
The Rev. Denah Joseph is an ordained Buddhist minister in the Theravada tradition and serves as the outpatient palliative care chaplain at UCSF Medical Center, working with patients and families with advanced illness and end-of-life concerns. Denah is a board certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains and a California licensed marriage and family therapist who has specialized in traumatic grief for 35 years. Denah is passionate about education, and has worked with numerous groups in hospitals and non-profits on issues of resilience, sustainability, and self-care for clinicians in high-stress environments, including oncology and ICU units, physicians-in-training programs, and hospice programs.
Christiane Wolf, M.D., PhD.
Christiane is an internationally respected mindfulness teacher, trainer, speaker and author. She is a senior teacher at InsightLA, a senior certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) trainer and is on faculty for the Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Christiane also serves as program director and lead instructor for VA CALM, a MBSR, mindfulness and self-compassion training program for clinicians at the Greater Los Angeles Veteran’s Administration. She is a certified Martha Beck Life Coach and the author of A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness.
Listen
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. ”
— RACHEL NAOMI REMEN