Retreat Workshop Topics
Dr. Magdalene has conducted numerous retreat workshop covering a broad range of topics:
Empowering Women Today
- How to Take Off Your Combat Boots and Put Your Lipstick Back On
- Embracing the Feminine You
- How to Balance the Board Room with the Kitchen
- Women's Ethics in the Modern World
- The Woman in the Mirror
- How to Know What You Really Want
- How to Communicate Effectively
- Understanding the Women's Spirit
- Learning What Your Husband Really Needs
Empowering Men Today
- Modern Cave Man Neanderthal vs. Loving Family Man
- Men's Private Session 101 - How to Finally Understand Your Significant Other
- Modern Ethics for Men
- Hey Daddy, Can I Make an Appointment? How to Spend Quality Time with your Loved Ones
- Understanding the Men's Wolf Spirit
- Men, Let Me Teach You How to be the Champ In and Out of the Bedroom
- Let me Tell You What Your Wife Can't Say
Relationships in a Modern World
- How to Have a Healthier, More Productive Relationship
- How to Build Self-Confidence
- Teaching Ethics to your Kids
- How to Master Communication Skills
- Raising Healthy Kids
- How to Communicate Clearly and Effectively
- Building Self-Esteem in our Children Today
- How to Realize what you Really want
- How to Create Peace and Harmony
- How to be a Positive Example for your Children
Spousal Communication Skills
- Developing Effective Communication Skills with Loved Ones
- Understanding Love vs. Fear
- How to Create a Safe Space for Each Other to Express Feelings
- How to Communicate Your Needs
- Reaching Goals Together
Relationship Management for the Busy Executive
- Removing Control from Your Relationship
- How Control Sabotages Relationships
- Understanding Why Control Issues Exist and Block our Growth
- Understanding How Fear Works Hand & Hand with Control
- Control: Why and How it Happens and How to Recognize it
- Understanding the Place of Fear in Control
- How to Find Peace in Your Relationships and Your Life
- How to Turn Controlling Behavior into Acts of Love
Anesthesia Awareness - Enlightening and Educating the Public
- Things You Can Do After Surgery
- What the Medical Community Does Not Want You to Know About Anesthesia
- What to do if Awareness Happens to You
- How to Prepare for Surgery
Healing the Spirit after Experiencing Trauma
- Trauma Defined - What Happened?
- Understand the Experience
- How to Help a Loved One Who Has Experienced Trauma
- Meditation Techniques
- The Power of Prayer
- Building Self-Esteem
- Building Self-Worth
- Understanding a Near-Death Experience
How to Prevent Anesthesia Awareness
Anesthesia Awareness can be prevented.
There are some new advances in technology that let doctors monitor the depth of the patient's consciousness.
Human error can't be completely removed. A Practice Advisory was released recently by the American Society of Anesthesiologists which outlines the procedures that doctors and hospital personnel should take to minimize these errors.
Common human errors include inadequate drug dose, inadequate monitoring, and failure to refill the anesthetic machine's vaporizers with volatile anesthetic.
The anesthetic machines themselves can cause anesthesia awareness to occur. Some hospitals still use anesthetic machines from the World War II era. These machines tend to unintentionally release oxygen into the breathing tube that can dilute the anesthetic mixture and lead to awareness. Careful maintenance and checking of the equipment can reduce the risk of anesthesia awareness. Having a properly trained staff, avoiding the use of paralytic drugs unless necessary and vigilance during the surgical procedure decreases the chance that the patient will experience anesthesia awareness.
Using an EEG monitor, like the Nartotrend, is another good way to monitor the patient's level of consciousness during surgery. EEG monitors measure the electrical activity in the patient's cerebral cortex which is normally active while awake and inactive while anesthetized or in natural sleep. These, along with other newer technologies, can provide surgeons and medical staff with good indications of the patient's level of consciousness.
But these machines are not without flaws. They are susceptible to interference from other surgical equipment (as in electro-surgery). They are also not advanced enough to detect the presence of less conventional anesthetic agents.