Lifestyle Medicine: Skills Session
Description
Lifestyle Medicine: Skills Session
Ensuring lifestyle medicine education gets to those that need it the most is critical, but education alone is not enough to create sustainable lifestyle changes. There are various skills that have proven to be successful in supporting patients in this regard.
Lifestyle medicine calls for a move away from the traditional doctor-patient relationship where the clinician is the expert information provider. This is needed because we now know that giving simple lifestyle advice such as “eat less and move more” is often ineffective.
To be effective in supporting lifestyle change, lifestyle medicine uses knowledge of behavioural science to work with patients. This way we can work with people and their values to support problem solving and equip them with skills to make the changes they want to make. Some of these techniques have been shown to be at least 80% more effective in supporting behaviour change than traditional advice giving and include:
Principles: Person Centred Care, Values Based Care, Supported Self Care
Techniques: Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Health Coaching, Brief Interventions, Goal Setting, Lifestyle Medicine Prescriptions
Delivery: Social Prescribing, Group Consultations, Use of Patient Activation Measures, Intensive Lifestyle Medicine Interventions, Lifestyle Screening Tool
Join us online to learn and be inspired by the trailblazers in lifestyle medicine. You'll gain an introduction to the many of the practical skills required to support patients with effective lifestyle change. This online study day is suitable for all roles within primary and secondary care health care delivery teams.
This event offers 6hrs CPD. This is an online only event, you will receive a link in your order confirmation and can join at any point on the day. The full recording will be sent post event.
Agenda
- 5:00 am - 5:05 am
Welcome and Introduction
- 5:05 am - 5:30 am
Principles, pillars & skills of Lifestyle Medicine - how can they help you
- 5:30 am - 6:00 am
Influence and Transformation
- 6:00 am - 6:30 am
Behaviour Change
- 6:30 am - 7:00 am
Motivational Interviewing
- 7:00 am - 7:45 am
Lunch
- 7:45 am - 8:15 am
From Goals to Action - Helping Patients Make the Vital Few Changes That Matter Most.
- 8:15 am - 8:45 am
Coaching
- 8:45 am - 9:15 am
Lifestyle Screening Tool
- 9:15 am - 9:45 am
Nature, Connection and Mental Health: Green Social Prescribing in Action
- 9:45 am - 10:00 am
Afternoon Break
- 10:00 am - 10:30 am
Group Consultations
- 10:30 am - 11:00 am
Informed Consent and Antidepressant Deprescribing
- 11:00 am - 11:00 am
Closing
Lineup
Dr Clare Nieland
Clare is a GP Partner and Trainer at The Cedars Surgery in Maidenhead. Clare is also Clinical Lead for Prevention for the Frimley ICS. Clare is passionate about lifestyle medicine and promotes this in all her consultations. Clare teaches LM to trainees in the Windsor VTS, and local trainers group. Clare has held a Lifestyle Medicine Conference for healthcare practitioners, and is planning smaller events over the coming year. Clare believes lifestyle medicine should be taught to undergraduate medical students, promoted to HCPs, and incorporated into every consultation. Whilst 10 minute consultations can prove challenging to this goal, Clare uses group consultations in her practice to help to facilitate this.
Kate Woolley
Dr Angharad Kate Woolley joined BSLM in 2022 as the Learning Academy Director. She qualified as a GP in 2019 and works in a medium sized practice on the outskirts of Nottingham. She teaches at the University of Leicester, on the subject of lifestyle medicine and previously worked with Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub, on their social prescribing educational community of practice, for link workers across the county. She is also active in research, and has recently completed a NIHR In-Practice Fellowship at the Leicester Diabetes Centre. Her research is in the area of patient education to facilitate lifestyle change in cardio metabolic disease. In addition to her passion for Lifestyle Medicine, she has a strong interest in global health, having worked and volunteered in a number of countries and spent 3 years on the RCGP Junior International Committee. She is passionate about reducing the influence of socioeconomic deprivation on a person’s ability to follow a healthy lifestyle.
Dr Camille Hirons
Dr. Camille Hirons is a dedicated advocate for Lifestyle Medicine, with a passion for system change and integrating evidence-based lifestyle interventions to improve patient outcomes. She is passionate about reducing health inequalities and has worked as the Health Equity Fellow for her PCN. Camille works as a salaried GP, as a clinical lead for South East London ICB for community Based Care and South East London Cancer Alliance. She is also the content creator and presenter on the NB medical Lifestyle Medicine half day course. She has also played a pivotal role in scaling Lifestyle Medicine within PCNs across her Borough and embedding it into primary care systems. From her experience implementing Lifestyle Medicine across NHS systems, Camille founded Lifestyle Medicine Accelerator—a training and support organisation designed to support the integration of Lifestyle Medicine within the NHS. Her goal is to support healthcare professionals in using Lifestyle Medicine based approaches to reduce health inequalities and improve patient care at scale.
Dr Sue Smith
Dr Smith is a GP, lifestyle medicine doctor, health and life coach and regional director for the BSLM. She is the director of Flourish for Life, a private Lifestyle Medicine clinic. She is also a qualified in health coaching and Neuro-Linguistic People with health or wellbeing concerns who are ready to invest in themselves in order to realise their full potential in their personal and professional lives. I coach individuals and groups for better health and wellbeing, creating bespoke, focused and empowering experiences, both in-person and online using a wide variety of techniques and knowledge. I draw on a combination of 30+ years of front-line medical experience along with the latest lifestyle medicine and coaching training, combining knowledge and behaviour change expertise to create sustained, significant impact. I love to see, feel and hear the behavioural and mindset changes that coaching can create and the action steps that follow. Steps that can lead to an extraordinary life – one that you designed for you. It is my purpose. I believe everyone has the ability to create their own fulfilment, true happiness and contentment in their one precious life.
James Gorman
James Gorman is the founder of BioMe and a licensed Tiny Habits coach. After 15 years in investment banking, he now helps people and organisations translate goals into a small number of high-impact, doable behaviours that fit real life - and make those behaviours easier to sustain. His Doing System provides a practical approach to closing the gap between setting a goal and following through.
Dr Jo Watkins
Dr Jo Watkins is a portfolio GP and business coach as well as being an adventure loving mum of 4 and co-founder of an organisation called The HOW People. They have delivered courses on self esteem, confidence and social media into primary schools for Year 6 and are now partnering with The Princes’s Trust to deliver into secondary schools. Jo has been described as a 'human catalyst' who also gives other healthcare professionals the confidence to start, build and scale their own business or develop a personal brand alongside their medical career with 1:1 coaching, mentoring and her signature ‘Digital Doctor Startup’ programme.
Dr Rupa Joshi
Dr Rupa Joshi is the transformation lead for the British society of lifestyle medicine and has been practicing lifestyle medicine in her surgery and running group clinics since 2018. She is also the national medical directorate lead for group clinics.
Ian Boyd
Ian brings over two decades of experience in the charity and community development sector, with a career dedicated to empowering people and communities to thrive. Before joining Mind Over Mountains, he served as Chief Executive of the national peer support charity Self Help UK, CEO of the Notts County Foundation and Managing Director at the young adults cancer support charity, Trekstock. He has also held senior positions and trustee roles across a wide range of organisations focused on social change, youth work, and community wellbeing. A qualified professional Youth & Community worker since 2005, Ian began his career on the frontline, working directly with young people and marginalised communities. This grounding continues to shape his values-led leadership style and his belief in the transformative power of connection, purpose, and opportunity. He is deeply passionate about creating systems and spaces that enable people to live well, and believes that nature, physical activity, and shared experiences are among the most powerful tools we have for sustaining mental health. A committed advocate for nature-based wellbeing, Ian is an ultramarathon runner and lifelong outdoors enthusiast. He has completed numerous endurance challenges, including the 100km Race to the Stones, and sees time spent walking, running, or exploring wild places as essential to his own mental and physical resilience. Ian lives in the Midlands with his wife and two daughters. Away from work, he can often be found behind a drum kit, supporting his beloved Aston Villa, or exploring the hills, trails, and coastlines of the UK and beyond with his family.
Dr Rani Bora
Dr Rani Bora is a private, holistic psychiatrist, wellness coach and speaker. She is also the author of a self-published book - “How To Turn Stress On Its Head”. She has studied and trained in a number of integrative wellbeing and coaching approaches. Her passion is prevention of mental ill-health through “mental wealth” coaching and lifestyle changes and is a strong advocate for empowering patients, peer support and personal recovery. She has a special interest in deprescribing. She brings her coaching expertise and knowledge into her clinical practice. Rani has written several self-help booklets for patients around wellbeing including a booklet for Rethink called “Coaching for Recovery”. She helped set up the Recovery College in Somerset and had designed and co-facilitated several courses for the college with people of lived experience of mental health difficulties. She has an online community called “The Thriving Professional” for busy professionals wanting to improve their mental health and wellbeing. She also runs a “Mental Wealth Mastery” community for professionals, coaches and therapists helping them transform the lives of people with mental health difficulties
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