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Show Notes:
If you’re wondering what kind of program you should create when you move beyond private practice, keep listening. Our guest has created a totally unique program. She figured out its format by trusting herself. She had to move through the doubt and questions that so many of us deal with.
Is this enough? Am I enough?
Mishara also talks about why she’s retired her license. You’re going to love her reasons even if you know you’re keeping yours.
Introducing the brilliant Mishara D. Winston.
Mishara is a former adventure therapist who is passionate about the power of play. A self proclaimed play historian and cultural healthcare nerd, she helps communities celebrate the mental health care systems within their own cultures and helps health care professionals save their own lives.
Here's some of what we talked about:
Mishara’s realization that people have been healing in community in particular ways for thousands of years, and that she could help facilitate and nurture that process
Creating Crave, a radically different program for health care executives and caregiving professionals
Why Crave’s application has only one question
Creating a program that leans into her own learning style
Creating playful and body honest marketing and onboarding for her program
How participants find the program
How she uses Instagram (hint: it’s not gross)
The outline of her program
Why Mishara retired from being a licensed mental health professional in this current healthcare model