Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Care Professionals

Overview

What you will study

Peer-reviewed studies demonstrate that VTS helps healthcare educators, leaders, and providers to:

• hone observation, critical thinking, active listening and communication skills · develop tolerance for uncertainty

• create psychologically safe environments that promote inclusion and belonging

• facilitate difficult conversations

• surface and mitigate assumptions and biases

• cultivate a reflective practice of metacognitive awareness, mindfulness and self-compassion.

The Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Care Professionals course offered by Harvard University has two interwoven through-lines: 1) Regular VTS facilitation practice and feedback, and 2) connecting the skills and mindsets of VTS to key topics in healthcare, including: critical thinking, empathic communication, bias mitigation, health equity, psychological safety and interprofessional teaming, facilitative leadership, and well-being.