Susan has been active in the healthcare field for over 25 years, starting as a ski patroller, EMT, and progressing to a primary care PA-C. During this time, in an effort to help her patients engage more with their own health, she studied and received a certificate as a Health and Wellness Coach from Duke Integrative Medicine. She built her own coaching practice over the years, offering individual and group coaching and mindfulness practices with local doctor’s offices, a national ...
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Kim’s first career was in advertising and sales management where she consulted with small to medium-sized businesses and managed an advertising sales team for a local business journal. When she discovered Duke’s IHCPT program, she saw the opportunity to translate and blend her creativity, natural curiosity, and belief in people into a realm that transforms lives. 14 years later as founder of Breakthrough Health, she offers 1:1 coaching packages, corporate mindfulness training, group coaching training, stress management consults at Duke Executive ...
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Jim holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Campbell University Divinity School, which he earned in 2008. While employed by Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina for 13 years, Jim filled the roles of social worker, pastor, and Director of Campus Enrichment. He retired from the ministry in 2010. After receiving training as an integrative health coach through Duke Integrative Medicine, Jim founded Open Water Coaching and Consulting in January 2011. Open Water provides health, career, and family/parenting coaching. From 2011-2014, ...
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Jim Carson is a clinical health psychologist and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, and of Psychiatry, at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He is a former yogic monk (swami) who has taught the practices and philosophy of yoga worldwide for over 50 years. Jim is the lead author of Relax Into Yoga for Chronic Pain: An Eight-Week Mindful Yoga Workbook for Finding Relief and Resilience. Jim has applied his expertise to the development and clinical research testing of yoga and ...
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Natasha Allen serves as the Program Coordinator for the Duke Health and Well-Being Coach Training Program. Training Education
