Online Course
Surgical Confidence Coaching Online
Struggling with surgical confidence? You are not alone
Do you feel stressed and anxious about particular surgeries? Perhaps any time spent in the op theatre is unpleasant for you.
Have you doubted your ability to be a good vet because you hate your op days?
If so, you are not alone.
If you long to feel more confident performing ‘routine’ surgery, or want to step up to more difficult ops, but lack the confidence to do so, then this unique course is designed especially for you.
Introducing Surgical Confidence Online.
The only online course dedicated to helping veterinary surgeons grow in confidence and thrive in theatre.
If you are ready to make a change and increase your confidence and decrease your anxiety...
We will teach you how to:
- Stop your overthinking
- Reduce your rumination
- Structure your surgery to make surgical success easier
- Eliminate the what-ifs
- Take action rather than procrastinating
- Leave work at work so you can relax and have some real downtime
- Deal with difficult emotions like fear, anxiety, guilt, frustration, and overwhelm
- What to do with imposter syndrome thoughts
- Stop comparison thoughts in their tracks
- Take the right action even in stressful situations
- Be truly calm and collected in theatre
This course includes:
- A unique blend of veterinary-specific coaching and proven therapeutic techniques.
- An 8 module online course designed to help surgeons like you grow in confidence
- Expert Video tutorials on how to resolve your surgical anxiety once and for all
- Downloadable audio files for you to listen to whilst on the go or relaxing
- Printable resources and worksheets
- CPD reflections sheets to make recording your CPD a breeze
- 10 hours CPD (Certificate on completion)
Is this course right for me?
Do you answer yes to any of the questions below?
Do you...
- Dread your op days?
- Feel tightness in your chest or butterflies in your stomach when you think about a particular difficult surgery?
- Struggle to keep your anxiety in check in theatre?
- Fear incoming emergencies and nights on-call because you may be required to perform emergency surgery?
- Feel you have lost confidence in theatre due to a career break?
- Feel excited after attending practical surgery CPD, but lack the confidence to implement what you have learned?
- Worry your colleagues think you aren't a good surgeon?
- Spend your nights worrying about how your patients are doing post-op?
- Constantly imagine the things that could go wrong?
- Feel like you are slow at surgery or not as good as your peers?
- Let past mistakes hinder your forward progress?
- Worry about how you will find a new job if you have to tell your employer about your surgical confidence problem?
Imagine if you could learn what to do with unhelpful thoughts like "what if the wound breaks down?", or "what if it bleeds?".
Imagine if you could discover what to do with difficult emotions such as fear, regret, anxiety, and guilt. Imagine being able to take the right action even when you feel overwhelmed.
Our participants report feeling excited to go to work in the morning, better being able to leave work at work, and not mentally taking cases home.
They feel calm and prepared in theatre.
They are more confident in their abilities as both a vet and a surgeon.
They also tell us they are more confident in their home lives too!
Who are my course tutors?
Louise Littler and Jo Howarth are uniquely qualified to help you to grow your surgical confidence. As an experienced veterinary surgeon and qualified coach and mentor, Louise brings a unique blend of practical advice and acceptance and commitment coaching.
Jo, an advanced therapist, and mindfulness practitioner is the daughter of a vet who struggled with stress throughout his career. Jo brings her years of therapy experience and psychology background to offer you real-world techniques that make a big difference in your everyday life.
As a team, we are committed to changing your life and the veterinary profession as a whole. By helping vets to develop psychological flexibility and confidence, vets can enjoy all aspects of their role and have long, fulfilling, careers.
Jo Howarth
BA (Hons) Psychology, DABCH, MCAHyp
Dr Louise Littler
BVSc MRCVS, PgC (Coaching & mentoring)
What is Surgical Confidence Coaching?
Surgical confidence coaching is a unique blend of coaching and therapy dedicated to helping surgeons to improve their surgical confidence and actively manage their surgical performance anxiety.
Surgeons are skilled professionals along with other elite performers such as musicians, athletes, and performance artists. Surgeons can experience periods of anxiety associated with performing certain aspects of their role.
Whilst some level of anxiety within the operating theatre is normal. Those who experience high levels of stress, or prolonged anxiety before during, and after surgery, can benefit from coaching to help them explore the reasons behind this and practical techniques to minimise their distress and increase their confidence.
Surgical confidence coaching will help you learn and put in place techniques to actively manage your anxiety as it appears. We help surgeons like you to improve your performance and decrease your feelings of discomfort, dread, and overwhelm. Thus helping you to better serve your patients and realise your value to your team.
Our coaches only use proven techniques (evaluated in peer-reviewed, randomised control studies) to help reduce performance-related anxiety and stress. These same techniques have been proven to increase job satisfaction, career longevity, and personal well-being.
What is the time commitment?
Each lesson video tutorial is only 3-10mins long, allowing you to complete the course in bite-sized pieces to suit your individual lifestyle and work pattern.
The average time commitment would be 60mins per module plus some additional time to practice the techniques throughout your normal working day. You will have 2 years access to the course and can complete the 10 hours at any time.
Surgical Confidence Online
Access Anywhere
Access at work, home, or even whilst queuing in the supermarket
Guarantee
We are confident that our course can help you to improve your surgical confidence. That's why we offer a guarantee.
If you complete all of the course and put the techniques into practice for 6 months (this is not an overnight fix) and see no improvement in your performance-related anxiety or confidence we will offer further support free of charge or your money back.
Please email us info@surgical-confidence.com for guarantee terms and conditions.
**If you are an employer purchasing this for an employee please sign up with their email address or contact us at info@surgical-confidence.com after purchase so we can grant your employee exclusive access.**
Please note: This is a coaching and therapy course and no surgical techniques will be taught. The information provided however will be surgical environment-specific. All techniques taught will be directly applicable to your role as a veterinary surgeon.
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