Vet Mind Works Podcast
This podcast is for veterinary professionals who are looking for better ways of working and living. We discuss mind-sets, mind skills, behaviours and habits, which support sustainable performance and wellbeing in a challenging profession, and allow us to develop our own 'best veterinary self'. Podcast hosts Petra Agthe and Alison Collings (two vets with a long-standing interest in psychology and related disciplines) interview interesting guests, ranging from veterinary colleagues to psychologists, who share their knowledge, experiences and insights on specific subjects. Occasionally, we also schedule a 'rest and digest' episode in which we discuss and reflect on previous topics. This is a podcast for the whole veterinary community and we encourage listeners to provide feedback and enter the discussion! You can do this by sending us an email to vetmindworks@gmail.com. We are happily funding this podcast ourselves to keep it independent. However, you can show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian veterinary colleagues: https://galaxyvets.foundation/campaigns/mental-health-support-for-ukrainian-veterinary-professionals/
Vet Mind Works Podcast
4. Performance and Wellbeing- with Dan Tipney
Are you interested in how to deliver the best care for our patients and applying our clinical skills to the best of our ability? And would you like to know what our wellbeing has to do with it? Then you may want to listen to this conversation between host Petra Agthe and our guest Dan Tipney, who is an expert in human factors with experience in a variety of professions including sports, aviation, human healthcare and veterinary medicine. In this episode, Dan shares lots of interesting information all around the topic of delivering safe patient care - and about the fact that this can only be achieved, if we look adequately after our own physiological and psychological needs as individual and as teams.
Main points discussed in this episode:
0:57 Why our show is advertisement free
1:57 Introduction to this episode and introducing Dan
5:25 About the relationship between performance and wellbeing
10:51 Emotions, emotion regulation and how breathing techniques can help
28:30 Weakness or strength? The two ends of the extreme in the human factor discussion, and the effects of dehydration, insufficient rest and sleep.
36:51 Performance vs performing
39:47 Detachment from outcome
42:03 High performing veterinary teams
45:05 Where to find Dan, Conclusion and Preview
Dan's favourite resources on the topic:
- The high performance podcast: https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/podcast
- I am... with Jonny Wilkinson: https://i-am-with-jonny-wilkinson.simplecast.com/episodes
- Brené Brown - Dare to Lead: https://brenebrown.com/hubs/dare-to-lead/
Other resources you may be interested in:
- How breath-control can change your life- scientific review article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137615/
- Breathing exercise for stress: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/breathing-exercises-for-stress/
Where to find Dan Tipney and VetLed:
https://www.vetled.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/vetledteam/
https://www.facebook.com/VetLedteam/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/vetled/
We are happily funding this podcast ourselves to keep it independent. However, you can show your support by donating towards a fundraising campaign in aid of a mental health project for Ukrainian
This podcast is in partnership with the Veterinary Information Network (VIN). More about VIN here.
We value your feedback! Please email us your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to vetmindworks@gmail.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook
Want to find out more about our hosts ? Follow on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/petra-agthe-562bb65b
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-elwood-b7aba216/
Credits:
Music- Deep Ambience by Coma-Media, Pixabay; Images for Artwork- OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay
