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Explore topics that are important to you such as the universal principles of human caring.
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Learn simple evidence-based techniques for achieving and maintaining self-caring.
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Upcoming Live Events
Live events give you the opportunity to listen and interact with speakers on a variety of topics. Always recorded and posted to fit all schedules. Links to Live Events are sent in the days leading up to the event to all registered users.
Thursday, Dec 18th, 11:30 AM ET
Nurse Yourself Live Events
Hosted by Erica Hooper
For Nurses, the call to give is unending, but who is caring for the caregiver? Nurse Yourself with Erica Hooper is a live event series created to help you go beyond self-care and embrace the transformative power of soul care. It's a journey back to yourself, where you'll learn to replenish your spirit and fill your own cup, so you can serve others from a place of peace, wholeness, and true abundance.
Join us for this amazing series as it continues to grow in our community.
1st and 3rd Thursday of each month.
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Tuesday, Jan 6th, 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
Jean Watson!
A New Year Call to Unveil "Veritas" in Nursing
Join us for a very special live event with Jean as she ushers us into the New Year.
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NEW COURSE!
The Artist and Healer: A Journey of Creative Awakening
Classes Start Sunday, Jan 11th, 3:30 - 5:30 ET
Unlock Your Inner Artist — and Heal from Within! Step into The Arist and Healer: A Journey of Creative Awakening, a transformative 8-week course designed to help you tap into your creativity as a source of renewal, resilience, and connection. Guided by Nurse Artist Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, this course invites everyone — no art experience needed! — to explore mindful artistic expression in a warm, supportive Zoom community. Participants will dive into live sessions, engage in creative group work, access rich learning modules, and discover how art can replenish the spirit, soothe stress, and deepen emotional connection to self and others. Whether you’re a Nurse seeking Continuing Education or someone simply looking to nourish your soul, this is your invitation to create, connect, and heal through the power of art.
Grow, Create, and Belong in a Creative Community
The Artist and Healer isn’t just a course — it’s a sacred space where imagination meets well-being. Over eight dynamic weeks, you’ll unlock inner resources you didn’t know you had, share with fellow creatives in small group coaching and forums, and even have the chance to showcase your work in the Nurses Guild Artist Gallery. Rooted in a rich blend of personal experience and Caring Science, this program helps you cultivate deeper compassion, restore your caring spirit, and embrace your identity as both a healer and an artist. Come ready to play, reflect, express, and be inspired — your creative journey awaits!
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 3:30 - 5:30 ET
Open Studio with Mary Rockwood Lane
Reclaiming your right to joy, play, and expression.
The Nursing Way is excited to launch a new monthly Open Studio for Nurse Artists—and for any nurse curious about exploring creativity, no experience required! Guided by the inspiring nurse artist Mary Rockwood Lane, these gatherings are a chance to play, create, and connect through art. From oils and watercolors to pastels, finger painting, and even food art, each session offers freedom to experiment and joy in creating together.
Creative expression isn’t just play—it’s healing. Whether through painting, drawing, or simply doodling, art gives you a way to process emotions, rediscover joy, and connect with each other. Exploring your inner artist can restore your spirit, deepen empathy, and bring lightness back into your life.
This is a space for you to unwind, recharge, and discover the healing power of art in community. Whether you’ve never picked up a brush or you’re a seasoned artist, you’ll find encouragement, laughter, and connection here.
Learn more about Mary and discover the Nurses Guild, our online gallery.
1st Wednesday of each month.
See the Nurse Artist Gallery
Wednesday, Dec 24th, 4 PM ET
Monthly Healing Circle
Our Nursing Community has come together to create space for supporting each other as we traverse the loss, grief and sorrows we face in our work of caring for others. Open to all, and please know we will continue to find ways to make this more available to various schedules and commitments.
4th Wednesday of each month
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Poetry of Healing with Paulina Van: A Stillpoint for Nurses to Speak, Feel, and Heal
This monthly gathering offers a sacred space where the inner life of Nurses is held with reverence—and voice is given to the heart’s truths. Rooted in Caring Science and inspired by the poetry of practice, we feature Nurse poets—and those who write in honor of Nursing—who courageously express what it means to care, to grieve, to witness, and to heal. In each episode, we pause... creating a still point in time… where words become a balm, and connection becomes a sacred act of human-to-human presence. Here, love, caring, and compassion are not only spoken but deeply felt. Whether you're a Nurse, a poet, or someone simply in need of gentle reflection, you are welcome here.
4th Sunday of each month.
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Native American Hoop Dance and The Dance of Caring
We begin the new year with Native American Hoop Dancer, Educator and Cultural Ambassador Eddie Madril, PhD(c) and Sara Moncada, MA, Native Educator, Cultural Artist and Dancer joining us for this special event. Drawing from the Hoop Dance and their book The Dance of Caring they will take us on a journey into Native insights that inspire caregivers toward abundance, strength and inner harmony. You can learn more at their website sewamdance.com.
Eddie has performed Hoop Dance all over the world. This includes opening the National Magnet Conference, opening for one of Jean Watson’s WCSI events at Stanford and giving the keynote address for The Oncology Nurses Association. Sara’s connection to Nurses is decades long. She was instrumental in overseeing the work that initially defined staffing excellence resulting in the publication Excellence and Evidence in Staffing, she was producer of the feature film Nurses: If Florence Could See Us Now and was the Managing Director for the non-profit Institute for Staffing Excellence and Innovation for many years.
Both Eddie and Sara draw from their rich experience as representatives of Native American culture, their roles as professors in Native American Studies, as well as from their own experiences as caregivers in sharing their stories.
Support The Nursing Way by becoming a “Supporting Member” and receive a free copy of their book, The Dance of Caring.
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Visit The Nurses Guild!
The Nurses Guild is a place to reconnect with your highest calling as a healer by giving wings to your inner artist. Visit our sister site to see an amazing collection of Nurse art and be inspired to find your own voice.
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Additional Upcoming Live Events!
- 12/18, 11:30 AM ET - Nurse Yourself
- 12/24, 4 PM ET - Healing Circle
- 1/6, 1 PM ET - Jean Watson
- 1/7, 2:30 AM ET - Open Studio with Mary Rockwood Lane
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