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The veterinary profession is built on relationships as much as skills. Having the right mentors and a strong professional network can open doors, provide guidance, and support long-term career success.
Join us for part one of the Supporting Tomorrow’s Professionals Series, ‘Building Your Veterinary Network—Finding Mentors and Making Connections’ with Stacy Pursell, CPC/CERS, founder of The VET Recruiter, and learn how to identify mentors, connect authentically, and grow a supportive community throughout your career.
You’ll learn:
- Why mentorship matters for both career growth and personal wellbeing
- How to identify potential mentors and approach them effectively
- Networking strategies that feel genuine rather than forced
- Ways to leverage both in-person and online opportunities
- How to maintain and nurture long-term professional relationships
Please note: This webinar is for Academia members only.
Implementing Fear Free principles into your practice goes beyond individual patient interactions. It requires team alignment, consistent client communication, and systems that build trust at every stage.
Join us along with Colleen S. Koch DVM, DACVB, FFCP-V, Dipl. American College of Veterinary Behaviorists, to learn how to apply Fear Free principles in daily operations, strengthen team collaboration, improve client relationships, and enhance the patient experience. This webinar will highlight the three pillars of trust: Patients, Clients, and Teams, and how they work together to support high-quality, sustainable care.
You’ll learn:
- How operational behaviors and workflows within certified practices can reinforce Fear Free standards
- Communication practices that promote consistency and confidence in patient handling across the team
- Practical coaching techniques to support ongoing adoption of Fear Free principles within the hospital
- How to identify and improve trust-building touchpoints before, during, and after the patient visit
Please note: This webinar is for Certified Practice members only.
Leadership shapes more than outcomes, it influences your team’s stress levels, communication patterns, and overall culture. Conscious, intentional leadership begins with self-awareness and extends into everyday interactions that build trust, psychological safety, and resilience.
Join Jennifer Edwards, DVM, ACC, CPC, ELI-MP, FFCP-V, for this RACE- and VHMA-approved course, where you’ll learn how to move beyond reactive leadership and create a healthy, high-functioning team environment. You’ll explore how your energy, habits, and internal patterns affect decision-making, communication, and team wellbeing, then apply conscious leadership principles to real-world challenges and high-pressure situations.
Through practical strategies and real-world applications, you’ll gain tools to recognize early signs of compassion fatigue and burnout, strengthen psychological safety through daily leadership behaviors, and communicate with clarity and compassion during difficult moments. This course will help you support individual wellbeing while fostering shared ownership of a resilient, connected team culture.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize early indicators of compassion fatigue and burnout along an emotional and behavioral continuum
- Understand how internal patterns and energy states influence leadership effectiveness, communication, and decision-making
- Use grounding and self-regulation strategies to shift from reactivity to intentional leadership
- Build and maintain psychological safety through consistent, everyday leadership behaviors
- Apply conscious communication techniques to support team members during stress or struggle
- Strengthen team resilience and encourage shared responsibility for a healthy workplace culture
- Demonstrate leadership behaviors that reduce defensiveness and promote openness, trust, and connection
Stress can show up at every stage of a veterinary visit, affecting team members, clients, and the overall care experience. Recognizing common stressors throughout the patient journey and applying practical, Fear Free strategies can support calm communication and collaboration from intake through discharge.
Join Amelia Knight Pinkston, VMD, cVMA, FFCP-V, for a one-hour RACE-approved webinar and learn how thoughtful, in-the-moment approaches can reduce fear, anxiety, and stress for both humans and animals while supporting sustainable wellbeing in the veterinary workplace.
You’ll learn:
- How to recognize signs of stress responses in humans and identify contributing factors across four key categories
- Ways to apply a considerate, Fear Free approach for humans through observation, pausing, identification, and boundary setting
- In-the-moment stress reduction techniques to decrease fear, anxiety, and stress in real time
- How to reflect on personal habits, stress responses, and boundaries to support long-term wellbeing
- How to develop a considerate approach for veterinary teams and pet owners using the 3 C’s and 4 S’s
Mindful Veterinary Practice: Reducing Stress for Teams and Patients is a practical, science-based course designed to help veterinary professionals recognize, manage, and reduce stress in themselves, their teams, and their patients. Through an integrated Fear Free approach, learners explore how stress shows up across people, animals, environments, and workflows, and how mindfulness and lifestyle medicine principles can be applied in real clinical settings.
This course combines neuroscience, behavioral awareness, and actionable tools to support emotional regulation, improve patient cooperation, and foster a calmer, more resilient clinic culture. Learners gain practical strategies they can use immediately, from recognizing early stress signals and preventing escalation, to creating sensory-friendly environments and embedding mindfulness into daily workflows. The result is safer handling, stronger teamwork, improved well-being, and more compassionate patient care.
