A Supportive Gathering
Through Our Own Eyes Retreat
This is a retreat created by women physicians for women physicians to offer a time for engagement and support in finding balance in our busy lives. Each retreat ends with those participants interested in the creation of the next retreat gathering and beginning the process again. It is a wonderful mix of Category 1 CME content, self care, and networking. September 2019 was the 13th time we held this popular retreat. During Covid pandemic we also had a small virtual gathering in 2021. Every retreat has been a great opportunity to make connections and to reflect upon many of the important things in our lives; our careers, our work-life balance, our personal health, our place within our communities and what we can bring to them and to each other. All this while digesting a bit of on-topic CME.
Covid and the changing dynamics in medicine as well as the expenses of retreat centers has made the continuation of this program challenging. These past years (2022- present) a few of us have been gathering remotely researching possible venues that would facilitate the continuation of TOOER. It was looking pretty dire, but we have a venue that may do very well for us! We are now designing an opportunity for a few motivated and enthusiastic people to experience/evaluate Playa Viva in March 2026 to rejuvenate the TOOER tradition.
