The Centre for Wellbeing and Sustainable Practice (CWSP) - Excellence Symposium 2023

The Centre for Wellbeing and Sustainable Practice (CWSP) was created in response to the reality that health care has become more transactional and impersonal.
Coupled with increasingly violent patients, chronic understaffing and many other factors, healthcare workers, including those employed within East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS), experience high rates of distress and burnout.
Using theoretical frameworks and practices of traditional spiritual care and pastoral education adapted for a secular environment, CWSP provides compassionate care services and empowering education programs to enhance the humanity at the heart of health care.
Services and programs available within the Royal Perth Bentley Group (RPBG) include wellbeing gatherings for teams in distress, spiritual care for patients and individual care for employees in distress.
There is also a popular staff education series called Bonstato, a post-graduate professional education program for wellbeing and spiritual care professionals and research.
Each activity is based on CWSP’s 4 pillars of wellbeing - reflective practice, acceptance, creativity and purpose.
Distress is framed not as a sign of weakness but as a normal human response to abnormal situations.
All activities support and enhance the wellbeing of individual employees, patients and their loved ones and are designed to transform our corporate culture in the hope that someday a dedicated wellbeing centre will no longer be necessary.