Transformative Professional Formation
Advance your clinical practice with evidence-based spiritual care training designed for the high-touch practitioner. Whether you prefer self-paced learning or an intimate, interactive cohort, these programs provide the tools to bridge the gap between clinical expertise and soulful care.
Choose the learning path that works for you from 4 courses & 2 value bundles
1. Tools for Spiritual Care: Strengthening Motivation/Patient Outcomes
2. The Heart of Practice: Living Your Ethics with Purpose and Vitality
Learn to support patients’ spiritual and existential needs—regardless of faith—while remaining within your professional scope. This course bridges clinical science and the human spirit to foster lasting behavioral change.
Key Learning Objectives:
Clinical Impact: Evidence on how spirituality influences metabolism and inflammation.
Behavioral Change: Strategies to enhance patient motivation and sustain behavior change.
Practical Skills: Ethical tools for conducting and documenting spiritual assessments.
Continuing Education:
Dietitians: 6 CEUs (Academy of Nutrition).
Health Coaches: 2 CEU2cs (NBHWC #CEA-100286-1).
Required: The Renewed Practitioner book.
Transform your ethics requirement from a "check-box" task into an enlightening journey of professional renewal. This course animates your ethical code, empowering you to move beyond simple compliance toward becoming a fulfilled, mission-driven practitioner.
Key Learning Objectives:
Moral Animation: Align your professional code with personal purpose and vitality.
Beyond Compliance: Shift from rules-based practice to a focus on character and virtue.
Ethical Resilience: Tools to navigate moral distress and complex clinical dilemmas.
Continuing Education (Applications Pending):
Dietitians, Health Coaches, & Nurses: 1 CEU/Contact Hour.
Dates to be announced—Rediscover the heart of your professional integrity.
3. Grief Care for Clinical & Professional Healing
4. From Knowledge to Mastery: Integrating Spiritual Care in Practice
Support your patients—and yourself—through the journey of grief and spiritual distress. This course provides a framework for addressing existential needs and offers personal renewal strategies to help you flourish in high-stakes clinical environments.
Key Learning Objectives:
Clinical Insight: Understand the impact of grief, mourning, and bereavement.
Practical Support: Tools to assess and navigate patient spiritual distress.
Professional Longevity: Self-care strategies to prevent burnout and stay grounded.
Continuing Education:
Dietitians: 5.75 CEUs (Academy of Nutrition).
Health Coaches: 2 CCEs (NBHWC #CEA-100286-2).
Required: The Renewed Practitioner book.
Transform clinical theory into confident application. From Knowledge to Mastery is a live, interactive 8-week course for an intimate cohort of no more than 10 peers. Together, we will navigate frameworks for grief, spiritual distress, and existential suffering, while practicing strategies for positive vitality, health, and personal renewal in high-stakes environments.
Key Learning Objectives:
Clinical Mastery: Guided self-reflection and advanced spiritual care techniques.
Expert guidance to sharpen communication within a peer group.
Lasting Change: Strategies to uncover core motivations and drive patient outcomes.
Continuing Education:
Dietitians: 18.75 CEUs (Academy of Nutrition).
Health Coaches: 12 CCEs (NBHWC #CEA-100286-3).
Schedule: Fridays, June 26 – Aug 21 (11 AM – 12 PM MT)
Required: The Renewed Practitioner book.
Training Bundles
Foundational Starter Pak:
Get Both Evergreen Courses for the Price of One
The Mastery Bundle:
Comprehensive Professional Transformation
Build your foundation in whole-person care with this high-value bundle. By choosing the Starter Pak, you receive both on-demand courses for the price of one, equipping you with the core frameworks and resilience strategies necessary for modern clinical practice.
What’s Included:
Spiritual Care in Practice: Master the core frameworks for assessment and integration into daily patient care.
Grief Care for the Clinician: Specialized strategies to navigate personal loss and support patient resilience.
Continuing Education:
Dietitians: 10 Total CEUs (Academy of Nutrition).
Health Coaches: 4 Total CCEs (NBHWC #CEA-100286-1 & #CEA-100286-2).
Double the Impact for the Price of One Course Required: The Renewed Practitioner book.
Maximize your impact and investment with our best-value path. When you enroll in the From Knowledge to Mastery interactive small group residency at this level, you receive both foundational evergreen courses as a professional gift—equipping you with the full spectrum of spiritual and grief care tools.
What’s Included:
The 8-Week Small Group Residency: Live, high-touch training for clinical mastery.
Spiritual Care in Practice: On-demand access to foundational tools.
Grief Care for Professionals: On-demand access to healing strategies.
Total Continuing Education:
Comprehensive Value: Earn all associated CEUs (up to 30.5 for RDs and 16 for Health Coaches) across the entire curriculum.
Best Value: Full access to the complete Renewed Practitioner training suite.
Required: The Renewed Practitioner book.
The Renewal Circle
Continuous Learning, Consultative Support, and Community for Graduates of From Knowledge to Mastery
Keep learning, growing, and finessing your skills as a spiritually attuned clinician. Step fully into your calling as a healer.
Completing the 8-week From Knowledge to Mastery cohort was just the beginning of your transformation. Returning to a demanding, fast-paced healthcare system can make it incredibly difficult to sustain the deeply integrated, whole-person care models you’ve cultivated. The old clinical rush constantly pulls us back toward transactional checklists and fragmented care.
To bridge this gap and protect your professional evolution, welcome to The Renewal Circle.
This exclusive, consultative support group is designed solely for our advanced graduates. It is a dedicated, sacred space to ensure you never have to walk the path of clinical transformation alone. Together, we move beyond the foundational science of medical care and enter the realm of true healing—cultivating ultimate transformation in ourselves and the clients we serve.
What we do in the Renewal Circle:
Interdisciplinary Case Studies & Brainstorming: Bring your real-world, complex patient interactions to the table. Together, we will dissect case studies, navigate boundaries around spiritual distress, and brainstorm creative, scope-safe care plans.
Group Supportive Presence: Healthcare can be an isolating space for a holistic clinician. This circle offers a deep reservoir of peer support, validation, and shared wisdom from like-minded professionals who understand your unique vision.
Skill Refinement & Finessing: Keep your conversational frameworks, narrative tools, and spiritual assessments sharp, fluid, and naturally woven into your active daily practice.
The Circle Structure:
To maintain a high-touch, intimate, and deeply interactive environment, membership is strictly limited to small peer groups.
Frequency: Twice-monthly, 1-hour live interactive group sessions.
Cohort Size: 5 to 15 participants per circle, ensuring your specific voice and clinical questions are always heard.
Investment: $97 per month (Cancel or pause anytime)
You have already laid the groundwork and acquired the knowledge. Now, anchor your practice in the continuous support required for lifetime mastery. Click below to secure your seat in the circle.
High-Touch | Professional Formation | Private 1:1
Deepen your clinical impact and rediscover your professional vitality. This exclusive mentorship is designed for the practitioner seeking to integrate whole-person, meaning-centered care into their clinical practice.
Private Formation: Individualized guidance on professional identity and ethics..
Advanced Skill-Building: Master spiritual assessment within your RD/Clinical scope.
Personal Renewal: Strategies to prevent burnout and lead with confidence.
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More than just
networking
Beyond Competency to Clinical Wisdom
While traditional classes focus on meeting checkboxes, our process cultivates the internal resilience and insight necessary to navigate complex human encounters with authentic presence.
A Living Community, Not a Static Curriculum:
Move away from isolated learning into a high-touch, interactive environment where professional formation happens through shared reflection and real-time clinical support.
Integrating Meaning into Medicine:
We look past the "clinical shield" of technical tasks to help you reconnect with the core purpose and dynamism that drew you to healthcare in the first place.
Choose Evergreen Learning, Live by Zoom Interactive Group Learning or 1:1 Health & Purpose Coaching
Become the best-connected
version of yourself
High-touch training is offered periodically, year-round. Check the training page
From Knowledge to Mastery: The live, interactive, supportive training joins other peers who share your goals and mindset. From Knowledge to Mastery is usually offered quarterly.
Evergreen, expert guidance and resources.
Access proven frameworks and evergreen learning with the Foundational Starter Pak.
Connections that last a lifetime through group training, follow-up support, or 1:1 Health/Purpose Coaching.
Build authentic relationships, accountability, and collaborations that grow with you over the years through interactive training, Renewal Circle, or 1:1 Health/Purpose Coaching with Mary Gannon Kaufmann.