Running the River™ with Lodestar
Navigate the realities of today’s workplace. Gain understanding of the neuroscience of threat activation, and learn practical skills and tools for regulation and recovery.
Join us for this 6-session program.
Healing is relational work.
It requires empathy, presence, and a steady nervous system.
Over time, that level of attunement takes a toll.
Running the River was designed by physicians, for physicians - this is the work that helps keep us in the work.
Lodestar faculty understand the cumulative impact of holding space for others. This small-group experience blends the neuroscience of stress and resilience, trauma-responsive coaching practices, Polyvagal Theory, and reflective, community-building space to help recalibrate your system — and stay in the profession you love without losing yourself.
What You’ll Experience While Running the River™
Through six live sessions with guided reflection between meetings, you will:
✓ Recognize signs of secondary and vicarious stress in your own system
✓ Strengthen boundaries without losing compassion
✓ Practice self-regulation tools grounded in Polyvagal Theory
✓ Reconnect to purpose, presence, and professional joy
✓ Develop a language and structure for ongoing self-care in your practice
✓ Build community with other professionals
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Meet Our Faculty
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Kemia M. Sarraf, MD, MPH, CCC, TIPC
President & CEO
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Ann V. Deaton, PhD, PCC, CTPC, TIPC
Director & Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Antoinette DuBois Ayers, RCC, CPCC, TIPC
Director, Training Development | Executive Coach
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Kiana S. Joersz, J.D., SHRM-SCP, TIPC
COO/CFO
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Michael Forlenza, PhD, MPH, PCC, TIPC
Director & Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Kerri Lockhart, MD, FAAP, CPC, TIPC
Director of Client Engagement | Executive Coach
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Sunny Nakae, PhD, MSW, TIPC
Director of Professional Development | Executive Coach
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Greg Pawlson, MD, MPH, FACP, AGSF
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Wendi Wills El-Amin, MD, RCC, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Lynn Black, MD, MPH, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Ken Jenkins, MA.S, ACC, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Floyd Carlson, MS, ORSCC, TIPC, CNTC, PCC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Jean Johnson, PhD, RN, FAAN, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Laura Berenstain, MD, ACC, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Dianne Rizzo, RN, PCC, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Kate Deaton, MS, PCC, TIPC, CPCC, OTR/L
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Stephanie Byerly, MD, CLC, ACC, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Lydia Johnson, MD, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Michael Hersh, MD, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Debbie Beardslee, RN, BSN, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Jennifer Pernfuss, LL.B, BA, ORSCC, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive and Systems Coach
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Tennaile Timbrook, JD, LTC (Reserves), TIPC
Senior Faculty
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Liz Peintner, MSW, PCC, CPCC, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Luis Rodriguez JD, LLM, TIPC, MS; COL (US Army Retired)
Senior Faculty
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Ann-Gel Palermo, DrPH, MPH, TIPC, ACC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Kelly Hurst, Ed.D., M.Ed, TIPC
Director of Data Analytics and Strategy | Senior Faculty
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Steve Wendell, PhD, ACC, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Lawrence Henderson, PhD, MSHRD, PCC, CPC, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Sookyung Suh, PhD, TIPC
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Eliza Humphreys, MD, MPH, TIPC
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Neil Gordon
Executive Strategy | Director of Communications | Special Advisor
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Devika Bhushan, MD, TIPC
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Ashlea Winfield, MD, MSPH, TIPC, TMMC
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Jill Wener, MD, TIPC
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Ellie Hirshberg, MD, TIPC
Senior Faculty | Executive Coach
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Julia Huber, MD, TIPC, ACC
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Rikeesha Phelon, MA, TIPC
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Suzanne Maxwell, PhD, PCC, TIPC, CTPC, CTIPC, WBECS, CCIC, CCM, ACC
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Maiysha Claireborne, MD, TIPC, MCNP
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Jo Deaton, MS, APRN-BC, TIPC
Associate Faculty | Executive Coach
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Joseph Goldstein, BA
Senior Associate | Executive Office
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Allison Moss, BIS, PMP
Administrative Assistant | Support Staff, Executive Office
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Ivy Grisham
Administrative Assistant | Support Staff, Executive Office
Why This Work Matters
Sustainability begins with a well-regulated nervous system. Running the River™ with Lodestar draws from the same trauma-responsive principles that anchor Lodestar’s Second Responder™ and All of Us™ programs: safety before strategy, reflection before reaction, connection before correction.
Each session models what it teaches—slower, closer work that replenishes capacity rather than performance.
Program Details
Six × 1.5-hour live sessions + guided reflection activities
12 CME Credits
Total 11.5 hours | ICF CCE pending
Investment: $995
Choose From Two Upcoming Start Dates:
Cohort A 2026: Mondays from 12-1:30 EST, Every two weeks Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 9, 23, Mar. 9, 23
Cohort B 2026: Thursdays from 3:00-4:30 EST, Every two weeks Jan. 15, 29, Feb. 12, 26, Mar. 12, 26