Beyond the Surface
Debriefing for Sustainability in Healthcare
Two day, intimate immersion for nurses intended to recognize our shared humanity and discuss actionable strategies to process trauma, rebuild psychological safety, and sustain emotional well-becoming for individuals who provide care and the organizations that support them.
A collaborative initiative between Debriefing the Front Lines and Your BIRTH Partners.
LEARN TO FACILITATE DEBRIEFINGS
Full day small group training is designed for clinical implementation of group debriefings led by staff, leaders, managers directors, hospital-based unit educators, academic clinical + simulation nursing faculty.
The existing models focus on quality and learning outcomes or minimizing psychological consequence of traumatic events. (Evans et al., 2023).
The ADPRN Debriefing Framework for Clinicians does both.
with the things that brought you into bealthcare
Reconnect
reimagine how to care for yourself in this work
Collectively
Learn
how to facilitate clinical debriefings using the ADPRN Debriefing Framework for Clinicians
All while being gently held through this work in the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia.
The retreat's intimate setting allows for personal growth and collective re-imagination of self + system practices in healthcare.
The ADPRN
Debriefing Framework
Our signature training model guides healthcare teams through structured, trauma-informed debriefing.
ADPRN equips clinicians and leaders with the tools to sustain psychological safety and collective well-being across all levels of care.
1. Acknowledge Our Humanity
Recognize the emotional impact of caregiving and create space for empathy.
Built on Five Core Principles
2. Discuss Quality and Safety Freely
Encourage transparent reflection in a retaliation-free environment.
3. Process Experiences and Emotions
Transform difficult events into opportunities for examining quality and safety for future outcomes.
4. Recover a Sense of Safety
Restore equilibrium through peer-to-peer co-regulation and trust-building.
5. Normalize Supportive Resources
Integrate mental health tools as essential components of professional practice.
The ADPRN Debriefing Framework is currently in 11 states across the country!
Including 13+ units throughout the state of Maryland with 100+ facilitators trained and growing!
Investment Tiers
*Payment plans available
Funds your registration, materials, pays the facilitators and helps us grow the program
Funds your registration, materials + pays the facilitators for their time + knowledge
Funds your registration + materials
Registration for training and accommodations are done separately.
Cottage accommodations, nutritious meals, reflection, discovery, movement and evening fireside connections.
Plus nursing professionals earn 10.0 continuing nursing education contact hours!
Elohee Retreat Center is conveniently located just 90 miles north of Atlanta and 90 miles west of Greenville, SC.
Debriefing Immersion and Training
How to Register
1
Register for Training
Registration investment ranges from $400 - $800.
2
Book your Accommodations
Book your Accommodations at the Elohee Retreat Center.
3
Book your Travel Arrangements
Flights, vehicle rentals, ride share
4
Post-training Follow Up
Join Tara and Maggie for office hours to discuss challenges, barriers and wins as you champion debriefing forward as an intervention to address trauma
In the post-pandemic landscape
healthcare workers face increasingly complex environments that complicate efforts to provide safe, effective quality care.
Emerging evidence suggests that debriefing may enhance learning in clinical environments where facilitators need to simultaneously balance patient care, psychological safety and emotional well-being.
Meet Your Facilitators
Tara and Maggie have worked together as consultants supporting the Mid-Atlantic Patient Safety Center in numerous Trauma-Informed Leadership Trainings and a statewide Perinatal Debriefing Initiative. Through these projects Tara and Maggie created Debriefing for Sustainability in Healthcare.
Together they are championing debriefing as communication tool to address trauma in healthcare through clear frameworks, practical tools, and research-backed language that guide interventions, trainings, and ongoing study, laying the foundation for debriefing as a national standard of practice.
Tara Ryan Kosmas
she /her
MSN, RN, NC-BC, CHSE, SOAR
Founding Executive Director, Debriefing the Front Lines
Life as a burn survivor shaped Tara’s experience and led her to the nursing profession. Tara’s experience spans 21 years and includes burns, academia, peer support and debriefing.
In 2020, sixteen days after a global pandemic was declared, Tara began Debriefing the Front Lines. She has since built a team of board certified nurse coaches and together they offer debriefing, sobriety support and education to individuals and healthcare systems.
When not championing change, find Tara soaking in the sun, swimming in the gulf, chasing her animals and tending to her kosmic garden alongside her husband.
Maggie Runyon
MSN, RNC-OB, CYT-500
Founding Executive Director, Your BIRTH Partners
Maggie Runyon (she/her) is a nurse, educator, writer, and speaker.
She began her nursing career in 2009 and has since practiced in hospitals and communities around the country, primarily in labor and birth environments. Maggie is currently pursuing her PhD in Nursing and loves educating, mentoring, and learning alongside other nurses. She recently published her first book, I Thought I Was Here to Help: Unveiling the Healthcare System, Unleashing the Nurse Advocate, which chronicles her early career journey and the lessons she has learned through it.
Her advocacy focuses on improving perinatal care in hospital environments through trauma-informed care, community collaboration, and reflection on nurse identity. When she's not dreaming up good trouble with other changemakers, she's doing yoga, reading a book, traveling, indulging in delicious food, soaking in fresh air outside, or hanging with her awesome partner and kids.
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