The eleventh Salus Health Care Forum was convened on April 2, 2025. In attendance were William Bergquist, Jerome Fish, Bill Gillanders, Gay Teurman, Mark Vukalcic, and Jack Westfall. The Trigger
The Salus Forum
The Salus Challenge
The Salus Forum
Salus: A Wish for Health in a Health Care Commons
Salus: A Wish for Collective Health In The Health Care Agora
Salus: A Generative Forum
A Mall of Innovation and Unconventional Thought and Action
How can our healthcare leaders build the right new skills and engage the appropriate strategies when guiding healthcare in the future? What is the nature and impact of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity in healthcare settings?
In what ways do health care leaders escape into a distorted world of serenity?
Read More about Escape into Serenity
In what ways might a health care leader find an effective strategy to deal with the Essentials and Essence in a VUCA-Plus environment? A book which provides descriptions of these strategies and more detailed descriptions of VUCA-Plus and the Escape into Serenity is available, free of charge, as a downloadable pdf document.
Download Access to: “The New (Ab)Normal”
Challenges of the Present
Complex Adaptive Systems in Health Care
US health care is a complicated tangle of health care organizations that are influenced by politics, the economy, and evolving public needs. Labeled today a “complex adaptive system”, we want to analyze, simplify and understand how best to improve US health care for the future.
Heading towards Tomorrow
Plans for Changes and Growth in Health Care
Understanding theories and models is key as we try to make sense of what’s happening in today’s health care. Only after we understand these experiences can we determine what they mean for us. We gain insights from case studies shared by our friends in the Salus Forum who have been leaders in different health care systems. We learn from their experiences.
We explore models of illness, disease, and health from the perspective of culture and ethnicity rather than primarily from the now dominant individual perspective. Our models color how we approach disease, illness and health both in planning and critiquing systems of care. They also impact the approach we take to our own health.
Health Care Team Operations and Design
Leadership in Health Care: Coaching, Balancing and Moving Across Multiple Cultures
The Health Care “Soap Box”: Right Train? Right Track?
Four Cultures of Health Care?
In this section of the forum, we will begin to describe core dynamics that may lie at the heart of health care. We will present a model (The Four Cultures of Health Care) which provides a potential framework for understanding the complexities of contemporary health care systems, and perhaps generates new ideas about how we can come together to heal the people and the system of which we are all a part. To begin this discovery process, we start with what lies at the core of health care: anxiety.
We go on to identify four cultures that we believe emerge in response to the anxiety and operate in contemporary health care systems. The first of these cultures is professionally oriented. Here is a description of this culture and its historical roots:
Can Health Care Be Improved through Physician-Leadership and/or Health-Based Coaching?
Health Care and Leadership
What role should physicians play as leaders in contemporary health care systems? We offer links to a series of essays concerning this question.
Physician as Leader: 3 Fundamental Styles
Physician as Leader: 4 Blended Styles
Physician as Leader: General Competencies and Culture
Health Care and Coaching
Can mid-21st Century health care benefit from a dose of psychology and behavioral medicine? Is there a place for health-based coaching in contemporary health care institution? We proposed that the health-based coach can assist their client to bridge the gap between and integrate several different disciplines: psychology, biology, environmental studies, neurobiology and spirituality. Together, these interwoven disciplines provide what might best be called a biopsychosocial perspective on health.
Library One: Recommended Resources
Cassatly, Michael, (2013) The Transformative Shifts in Health Care Compels Coaching, Library of Professional Coaching, April 14.
Emerson, Brian and Kelly Lewis, (2019)
Johnson, Barry (1996) Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems. HRD Press.
Lustig, Robert (2021) Metabolical. New York: Harper.
Meadows, Donella (2008) Thinking in Systems. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing.
Means, Casey (2024) Good Energy. New York: Avery/Penguin.
Miller, John and Scott Page (2007) Complex Adaptive Systems. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
Snowden, Dave (2023) Cynefin Framework. Retrieved from: https://thecynefin.co/about-us/about-cynefin-framework/
Stacey, R.D. (1996), Strategic Management & Organisational Dynamics, Pitman, London
Brief Biographies of Salus Forum Members.
The following link provides information on Salus Forum Members.
Jeremy Fish, M.D.
William Bergquist, Ph.D.
Perry Pugno, M.D.
Library Two: Documents Published by Participants in Salus Health Care Forum
Mindi K. McKenna. and Perry A. Pugno
Physicians as Leaders: Who, How, and Why Now
Christie Lewis, Kendell Munzer and William Bergquist (Editors)
Margaret Cary and William Bergquist (Eds)/Library of Professional Coaching/Future of Coaching:
Health-Based Coaching and Wellness
Michael Cassatly and William Bergquist
Communitas: The Salus Newsletter
The tenth Salus Health Care Forum was convened on February 5, 2025. In attendance were Mitch Applegate, William Bergquist, Jerome Fish, Bill Gillanders, Mark Vukalcic, and Jack Westfall. The Trigger
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