{"id":58,"date":"2021-09-16T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oscw\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:03:22","slug":"covid-19","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/resources\/covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery and Renewal Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Recovery and Renewal Days grew out of the previous staff retreats, and were initially designed to help people respond to the COVID-19 crisis and keep well during self-isolation. They have developed into a staff resource for wellbeing, to provide a time for reflection and replenishment.<\/p>\n<h2>Recovery and Renewal days for Oxford Health Staff<\/h2>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>For a number of years the Oxford Health Department of Spiritual &amp; Pastoral Care ran a series of well-received staff retreats.\u00a0 These retreats have been developed into Recovery and Renewal Days.<\/p>\n<p>The days are <strong>FREE<\/strong> and are facilitated in such a way that staff groups are able to develop resources for self-compassion and self-awareness. The emphasis of each day is the development of psycho-social and psycho-spiritual wellbeing. The days are open to <strong>ALL<\/strong> <strong>staff<\/strong> whatever their faith, belief or philosophy of life.<\/p>\n<h3>Aim of each day<\/h3>\n<p>The aim is to create a gentle, nurturing environment in which participants can find the support needed in order to replenish themselves. \u00a0By the end of each day participants will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the importance of work\/life balance for health and wellbeing;<\/li>\n<li>Be introduced to strategies for caring for self (and why this matters);<\/li>\n<li>Know how to find sources of support and how to make changes;<\/li>\n<li>Develop understandings of the roles we play e.g. partner, sibling, parent, carer and how they relate to who we are;<\/li>\n<li>Consider gender and race and the influence of historical and present-day understandings of power within the helping professions;<\/li>\n<li>Discuss some possible psycho-spiritual tools for living e.g. meditation, mindfulness and understandings of the natural world;<\/li>\n<li>Consider ways in which their learning will influence the care of patients<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Criteria for attendance<\/h3>\n<p>Staff attending need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The permission of their manager to attend;<\/li>\n<li>Be able to attend in work time or whilst off sick;<\/li>\n<li>Be the only person attending from their team;<\/li>\n<li>Be prepared to attend for the whole time;<\/li>\n<li>Be prepared to have an individual conversation with a facilitator beforehand;<\/li>\n<li>Be sufficiently well to benefit from 2 days away;<\/li>\n<li>Give a brief statement as to why they think they would benefit from a retreat; *<\/li>\n<li>Be prepared to complete a short pre- and post-attendance questionnaire; **<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, where possible we try to represent all clinical, corporate and geographical areas with a mixture of banding.<\/p>\n<p>*We request that <strong>applicants be as open as possible as to why they feel they would benefit from attending.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>** As part of the <strong>NHSE\/I funded LiSHoRe project<\/strong> funds have been made available to evaluate the series of days with the hope of developing a model that can be used by others within health and social care.\u00a0 Participant information, including feedback on the day will be anonymised and used to write up a detailed evaluation.<\/p>\n<h3>Options<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Option 1<\/strong>: 24 hours. Overnight accommodation in single en-suite rooms (including the option of using 2 rooms that have been adapted for disabled users) with all meals and refreshments provided.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Option 2:<\/strong> 10am \u2013 4.30pm. Lunch and refreshments included<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Booking<\/h3>\n<p>For dates and details of how to book please see the Recovery and Renewal Day booking form staff intranet OR contact <a href=\"mailto:spiritual.care@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\">spiritual.care@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk<\/a> The allocation of places will take place approximately 14 days before the date or each day is due to take place.<\/p>\n<h3>Facilitators<\/h3>\n<p>Facilitators include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sally Horner<\/li>\n<li>Rainah Madzorera<\/li>\n<li>Reg Field<\/li>\n<li>Summon Hussain<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Williams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Venue<\/h3>\n<p>Charney Manor Quaker retreat and conference centre, the centre piece of which is a stunning 13<sup>th<\/sup> century manor house in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside between Wantage and Oxford. Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charneymanor.com\">www.charneymanor.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recovery and Renewal Days grew out of the previous staff retreats, and were initially designed to help people respond&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95,"parent":13,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/932"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/oxcswell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}