What if You're Doing Everything Right—But Something Is Still Missing?
You provide evidence-based care. You know how to listen. You’ve learned counseling skills and motivational interviewing. But what do you do when you hear a patient’s deeper struggle—and aren't sure how to respond?
Renewed Practitioner offers practical whole-person spiritual care training, professional support, and continuing education for dietitians, nurses, and health coaches.
Learn scope-safe tools to recognize, explore, and respond to what matters most to your patients—while staying within your professional role.
Practical skills. Continuing education. Renewed confidence in the care you provide.
You're not imagining it! You Care. But Healthcare can Make Caring Hard.
Healthcare is a conflict-rich, emotionally demanding environment.
You encounter suffering, uncertainty, grief, fear, competing priorities, difficult conversations, and conflict—with patients, families, colleagues, and sometimes within yourself.
Over time, we can learn ways to protect ourselves.
We keep moving.
We stay professional.
We focus on the task.
We avoid what feels too difficult.
And sometimes, without realizing it, we begin to feel like we're going through the motions.
You may still be providing excellent evidence-based care while wondering:
Am I really reaching my patients?
What do I do when the issue isn't really about nutrition, medication, or behavior?
How do I respond when I hear grief, fear, loneliness, loss, or a crisis of meaning?
How do I stay connected to my own sense of purpose?
What If the Conversation Itself Could Become Part of the Care?
This Is Where Renewed Practitioner Offers Something Different.
You already know how to listen. You already practice patient-centered care. You may already use reflective listening and motivational interviewing.
The question is: What do you do with what you hear?
Renewed Practitioner introduces a different way of practicing—one that helps you recognize the meaning, purpose, relationships, beliefs, losses, hopes, and questions beneath the clinical conversation and respond to them in ways that are practical, creative, even spiritual, and within your professional scope.
No script to memorize and no template for every patient.
Instead, you develop a clinical way of seeing and responding that allows you to meet the person in front of you with greater curiosity, presence, and creativity.
You already know how to listen. Learn how to hear what matters—and what to do with it.
NOTICE → EXPLORE → SUPPORT → INTEGRATE
👁️ NOTICE — Hear what others may miss.
Often it's more than the words. Recognize moments when a patient's story reveals something deeper that may affect how they cope, heal, or engage in care.
💬 EXPLORE— Discover what gives this person's life meaning.
Go beyond “What do you need to do?” and discover “What matters to you?” Explore the values, meaning, purpose, relationships, hopes, losses, and even spirituality shaping the patient's experience.
🤝 SUPPORT— Stay present without needing to fix.
Learn how to stay present with what emerges—without rushing to fix, advise, persuade, or move the conversation back to the clinical task.
🌱INTEGRATE— Bring meaning into the care plan.
Bring what you've discovered back into care. Connect the patient's deeper sources of meaning and motivation with the health goals you're already addressing. Become the sought-after clinician who cares about them, really!
Learn from one another. Practice together. Be supported. Grow together.
This is more than another communication technique.
It's a new way to show up for the work of caring—grounding both patient and practitioner in meaning, purpose, connection, and spirituality.
And as you learn to care differently for your patients, you discover something about your own way of practicing.
Caring for the Whole Person Includes You.
What happens when you begin to practice from a deeper awareness of meaning, purpose, connection, and spirituality?
You don't just care differently for your patients. You begin to experience yourself and your work differently.
Renewed Practitioner creates space for clinicians to step out of the routine, reflect on what is happening in their work, and rediscover the curiosity, creativity, purpose, and human connection that can get lost in the demands of healthcare.
You won't do this alone.
Get started with anytime learning and progress to live small group training later
Learn from clinicians who understand.
Practice new skills together.
Share what you're discovering.
Support one another.
Grow together.
Through evergreen learning, community, reflection, and practical formation, you'll develop a deeper awareness of how you show up in the clinical encounter—and what you need to remain present without losing yourself.
This is clinician wellbeing through connection, reflection, and renewal—not another self-care checklist.
Because the goal isn't simply to help you keep going as you always have.
It's to help you reconnect with why you chose this work in the first place—and find new ways to flourish in it.
Don't just learn another skill. Renew yourself & the way you practice.
Practical Training You Can Use in Your Very Next Patient Encounter
Move from understanding whole-person care to actually practicing it.
Renewed Practitioner offers practical, interactive training and continuing education for dietitians, nurses, and health coaches who want to develop scope-safe spiritual care skills, practice with other clinicians, and bring greater meaning, purpose, connection, and humanity into patient care.
Learn. Practice. Connect. Renew.
Explore the training path—from foundational knowledge to confident, practical application—with opportunities to learn alongside and be supported by other healthcare professionals.
YOUR HOSTS & GUIDES
Your guides
on the journey
The Group Members in Interactive learning
In From Knowledge to Mastery, members of the live group form a supportive, consultation, and learning group supported by facilitator, Mary Gannon Kaufmann
Mary Gannon Kaufmann, MS, RDN, MA, BCC
Founder and creator of Renewed Practitioner Trainings & Author of The Renewed Practitioner, her newly released book. Mary is a health care clinician- a Registered Dietitian, a Board Certified Healthcare Chaplain, and an accomplished researcher and innovator.
The Renewed Practitioner
Trainings are credentialed by the Academy of Nutrition, NBHWC- Coaching, & for Knowledge to Mastery, pending through the Florida Nursing Association
You
You bring unique perspectives that help others and yourself grow.
TESTIMONIALS
What our members are saying
I think every healthcare professional (especially in the allied fields) should have to take “From Knowledge to Mastery: Spiritual Care Training for Healthcare Professionals”.
We did not get this kind of training in undergraduate school in dietetics nor did we get it during our dietetic internship to becoming a Registered Dietitian.
— Phyllis H. / Registered Dietitian
"Thanks to Mary Gannon Kaufmann for organizing such a brilliant masterpiece on spirituality for healthcare professionals. This training has benefited me in ways I could have never thought possible. This course has made such a positive impact on me both personally and professionally, and I can’t wait to delve deeper into what comes next in this thing called life."
— Patty L./Registered Dietitian
I really appreciate the practical tools that were provided along with an understanding of the bigger picture 'why' of a more spiritually integrated way of providing patient care.
— Renee L. / Registered Dietitian
"I wish that I would have heard Mary's message earlier about the power of spirituality in nursing. I left patient care because of moral burnout. Now I wonder about being able to go back to working with patients if I continue to work with this program?"
— Susan B / Registered Nurse
Thank you so much for everything! It was a pleasure learning with you!
— Tammy F / Oncology Nurse Manager
I will practice taking 2 breaths when the conversation gets heavy, to create space for that emotion to come through. Personally, I think I'm learning to give myself grace and not compare myself to others, especially when their situation could be vastly different from mine. I've really learned to listen rather than speak because sometimes that acknowledgment and that space are all a person needs in this world to feel even an ounce better.
— Chris / Oncology Nurse
"Personally, it has allowed for greater awareness of how my own spiritual perspectives shape my health behaviors. This is a powerful piece of the course for both practitioners and in working with patients."
--Niki S./ Registered Dietitian
"This course has profoundly changed how I care for clients as a health coach!"
— Linda R / NBHWC Health Coach
"Every nurse, dietitian, or coach needs this training to take in the whole picture of the person. I truly believe that this kind of training and care is what is missing in our healthcare systems. I can't imagine how much more effective "modern medicine" would be if every provider practiced this way.
— Sarah C / Oncology Nurse