Career Development Pathway
Community Pediatrics
General Pediatrics
Mental Health
Daniel Nicklas, MD (he/him/his)
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States
Janet Serwint, MD (she/her/hers)
Professor Emerita of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Glen Arm, Maryland, United States
Theresa Hetzler, MD (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York, United States
Ada Fenick, MD
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Paula Algranati, MD (she/her/hers)
Clinical Associate Professor
Physician Assistant Program
Bay Path University
Longmeadow, Massachusetts, United States
Teresa Duryea, MD (she/her/hers)
Professor, Academic General Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine - Houston
Bellaire, Texas, United States
Kristina Gustafson, MD, MSCR, FAAP (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Maheen Quadri, MD, MS (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
This workshop will focus on sparking joy during the hours that occupy our wakeful moments: while at work.
Participants will complete the Workplace PERMA Profiler , a validated 23-question survey that measures overall well-being at work. We will then describe the PERMA framework (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment) for measuring joy in work. Participants will divide into small groups for 30 min, each with 2 facilitators. First, participants will discuss “what surprised them” with their own profiler results. Then, participants will use the think-pair-share approach to reflect on existing examples of joy in the workplace. Last, participants will use a flip chart together to discuss or identify additional innovative strategies to foster joy at work utilizing the 5 elements of the PERMA framework.
Small groups will report their identified strategies to spark more joy at work. Ideas will be collected and collated according to the PERMA framework on a projected document. The large group will also discuss barriers and solutions. With these ideas in mind, individual participants will then have time to reflect and create their own commitment to spark joy at work using a QR code and a Qualtrics tool. Two weeks following the workshop, participants will receive a summary of all ideas generated in both the small and larger groups. Three months later, participants will receive a reminder email of the commitments they made to spark joy at their own work.