The 18th annual Connecting the Dots conference is to be held virtually on October 10, 11, and 12, 2023. Six Zoom Webinar sessions are planned at no charge for the U-M community.
See the session descriptions, presenter bios, and Zoom Webinar registration links in the panels on this page!
There are two planned Zoom presentations each day on October 10, 11, and 12, 2023. Zoom Webinar registration is open now!
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When the busyness of life is whirling around you, it can be difficult to stay grounded and maintain boundaries around your time, attention, and energy. Yet, making time to rest, decompress, and recover from stress is essential to your well-being. Join this session to learn several research-based strategies to reduce feelings of overwhelm, enhance vitality, and reconnect to the resources that nourish you. You are invited to try several practices to bring moments of calm into your daily routines.
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The goal of a courageous conversation is to talk about potentially uncomfortable topics with the goal of understanding each other, validating feelings, providing or supporting a psychologically brave environment, caring for each other, and growing the relationship. When successful, courageous conversations are often quite impactful. In order to have better relationships with colleagues, patients, and even our families and friends, it is imperative that we become skilled at having courageous conversations.
In this session, we'll explore principles of courageous conversations, including:
The presenters will also share examples of courageous conversations. (Note: This course is different from the Difficult Conversations microlearning course offered by U-M Organizational Learning.)
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This presentation features 10 contributors to the book Parenting on the Frontlines: Stories of Love, Loss, and Wonder and is hosted by its co-authors Drs. Paradis and Morgan. The session is a collaboration among caregivers (colleagues at Michigan Medicine) with a wide array of professional roles and life experiences. During this session, contributors to the project will share small pieces of their personal stories and offer practical advice to take home and help parents and those who have experienced the path to parenting feel less alone on their journeys. Our experiences are unique, the fact that each day can be both a joy and a struggle is not. Please join us for this illuminating and heartfelt discussion.
Interested in learning more about the connection between your finances and well-being? Join Fidelity’s thought leaders, Kirsten Hunter Peterson and Katie Taylor, who will share insights on ways to improve your financial wellness and make progress on financial goals like building emergency savings and saving for retirement.
We all know that as the people around us age, they may need more support from others. This session will focus on important considerations when caring for a loved one, and where to find resources for support. Caregiving topics that will be discussed include legal and financial care planning, home safety, long-distance caregiving, and dementia care.
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The goal of this session is to show you how to move better through your everyday life. The functional movements taught – in flexibility, breath work, and mobility – will help you recognize the areas in which you may be less flexible than you realized, and help you become more flexible, in just a few minutes a day! The class will consist of some interactive discussion and several exercises – you are welcome to participate at home, or simply watch and learn. You will be able to access descriptions of the exercises so you can continue with them!