HEAL CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER

you’ve been called to medicine
to heal others.
let us help you be whole in the process
You’ve seen how the healthcare system isn’t up to the task.
You feel called to action – but what and how?
Your energy and attention gets pulled this way and that.
How do you make a healing difference for patients,
colleagues, systems or society?
Let this pathway resource you with clarity about the work that is yours to do and the wisdom and regenerative resilience with which to do it.
The result is you making your greatest difference
with more power, greater joy, and less stress.
Who is it for?
- You’re a leader or practitioner in healthcare who wants to have greater impact.
- You want to bring healing presence, purpose, and essential wisdom into how you lead and practice.
- You see the brokenness in systems and society and want to heal what you can with regenerative resilience.
- You never thought of yourself as a leader, but you’re feeling called to now.
Designed by front-line physicians and the Zen masters who trained them
Join us on the transformational journey to
Healthy Embodied Agile Leadership (HEAL)
Get started in one of these programs:

heal1
Apply the basic flips of ZL to healthcare with results and resilience in this accredited program.

FEBI-4U
Explore your personality through 4 mind-body energy patterns and learn to access whichever serves best.
Subsequent courses can be taken in any order convenient for your schedule. Sign up for each individually or the pathway at a significant discount. Click on each program below to see what you’ll learn.
HEAL1
FEBI-4U
HEAL2
HEAL3

Outcomes that Endure
From even the first program, HEAL 1, participants consistently report being more grounded, centered and energized, even long afterwards. They report fewer symptoms of burnout and greater facility in the leadership skills we teach, which in HEAL 1 includes: transforming challenges, leading with agility and influencing others.

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Add the coaching option?
Make your journey even more impactful with the assist of a Zen Leadership coach.
Why? As you train in HEAL, you’ll be seeing in new ways and trying new practices. If you’re trying to lead changes in your system, you’ll likely experience ups and downs and feelings of failure – in other words you’re learning! There’s nothing like the accountability, support, attention, and insight that emerge through one-on-one coaching to help you stick to desired practices, overcome rough spots, and make something bigger happen.
Our Zen leadership coaches embody a depth of wisdom and experience that comes from years of meditation in addition to their leadership, industry, and coaching experience.
Add the coaching option (paid for separately) and accompany your journey with 3-6 sessions with one of our Zen Leadership coaches.
What you can expect
This certificate program includes 4 online courses – FEBU-4U, HEAL 1, HEAL 2, and HEAL 3 – which you can take within a period of 6 months or stretch out over 2-3 years, according to your schedule.
Between programs, you’ll have opportunities to join community calls, as well as daily Zen training in the Chosei-Zen virtual dojo*. You’ll discover that the combination of these programs and this interwoven deep, physical training allows your learning to be embodied so that essential wisdom increasingly functions through you.
Choose your pathway fee
When registering, select the pricing level that fits your circumstances. When you register for a pathway, we honor your commitment with an additional discount over individually priced programs. These rates cover all 4 online programs.
- $799 – Scholarship rate (e.g., student, limited income, international low currency)
- $1299 – Supported rate (e.g., part-time or self-employed, non-profit)
- $1799 – Regular rate (e.g., full time, government or corporate)
- $2199 – Benefactor rate (e.g., able to contribute to support another)
After you register for the HEAL Certified Practitioner pathway, we will contact you about which programs you want to enroll in this year. Please contact us if you wish to upgrade your pathway registration to include the in-person offering of HEAL1 and we will let you know the fee differential. Contact us with any questions or if you would like to set up a 3-part payment plan for this pathway.
*All Chosei Zen training and programs are offered on a donation basis
“You are more powerful than you can imagine; your leadership is transformative. This curriculum positions you to burst with your potential and make practical steps towards meaningful change.”
Bethany Howlett
MD
“This program has practical, applied tools that go much deeper to get at the causes of dysfunctions and quandaries. You leave with clarity about the path forward.”
Nancy Pandhi
MD, Ph.D.
“Tools for Leading – gives some great tools to become more grounded, address fear based thinking, manage paradox, and lead into the future.”
Cheryl Goeckermann
MD, Family Medicine Physician
“I have never transformed to entirely, so completely, with such integrity as I did this weekend. The method is sound, and if you let it change you, you will be the best version of yourself.”
Kristi Crymes
DO, Family Medicine, Faculty Physician
“The teachings of IZL have enabled me to lead with courage and without fear despite the pandemic. Crises become opportunities to learn and grow.”
Cindy Haq
MD