
PUBLICATIONS
Griffin, C., Jacobs-Lowry, S., Oman, K.S., Ziniel, S.I., Kight, S., Givens, P. (2021) Increasing the capacity to provide compassionate care by expanding knowledge of Caring Science practices at a pediatric hospital. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.
Griffin, C., Nowacki, K., Woodroof, A. (2021) Creating safe and healing environments: Innovative curriculum to support team members during patient and family
Griffin, C. (2020) Contributor in: Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice 5th Edition, Smith, M., Philadelphia, PA: FA Davis.
Griffin, C. (2018) Chapter in: Caritas Coaching: A journey toward transpersonal caring for informed moral action in healthcare, Horton-Deutsch, S. & Anderson, J. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma.
WORKSHOPS
Griffin, C, (2019-Present) Compassionate Communities: Fire side chats. Presented with new graduate nurse residency program at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019-Present) Building Resiliency: Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue (Five-part Series). Presented at Personal Assistance Services of Colorado (PASCO). Lakewood, Co.
Griffin, C., Reese, J. (2019-2020) CU Flourish Resilience & Well-being (Five-part modules). Presented with team members at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, Co.
Griffin, C., (2018-Present) Creating Safe and Healing Environments. Presented with team members at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C., Jacobs-Lowry, S.(2017-Present) Caritas Circles. Presented with team members at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2016-Present) Mentoring Matters. Presented with team members at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2016-Present) Three Vital Questions. Presented with team members at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C., Jacobs-Lowry, S. (2015-Present) Stress Management for New Graduate Nurses. New Graduate nurse residency seminar at University Hospital, Denver, Co.
Griffin, C., Jacobs-Lowry, S. (2012-Present) Resiliency for New Graduate Nurses. Presented with new graduate nurses at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C., Jacobs-Lowry, S.(2011-Present) HeartMath Resiliency Advantage: Skills for Personal and Professional Effectiveness. Presented with team members at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO.
PRESENTATIONS
Jacobs-Lowry, S., Griffin, C. (2020, July) Resiliency for Care Givers. Reconnecting to your Purpose and Thriving: Having what you need to refill your cup. Colorado Association of School Nurses. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2020, July) Kindred Mamas Mentor Training. Presented with team members at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2020, March) Compassionate Communities Built Through Compassionate Circles. Presented at Gwelliant Sustaining Compassion in Challenging Times Conference. Newport, Wales/UK
Jacobs-Lowry, S. (2020, March) Introduction to Managing Stress. Meiklejohn Elementary PTA.
Jacobs-Lowry, S. (2019, June) Resiliency in Practice. Community and School Health Nursing Conference. Aurora, CO.
Griffin, C., Reese, J. (2019, December) Team Resiliency Seminar. Presented at Hospitalist Retreat. Children’s Hospital Colorado Springs, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, November) Mentoring Matters. Presented at Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Retreat. Denver, Co.
Griffin, C. (2019, November)Compassionate Communities:Lunch & Learn. Presented at Personal Assistance Services of Colorado(PASCO).Lakewood, Co
Griffin, C., Jacobs-Lowry, S. (2019, November) Building Resiliency: Form Surviving to Thriving. Presented at Mapleton High School teachers professional development series. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, November) HeartMath & Resiliency: Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue. Presented at University of Colorado’s Physician Assistant Bootcamp. Denver, CO
Griffin, C., Reese, J. (2019, November) Building Resiliency Seminar. Presented at Children’s Hospital Colorado’s Special Care Clinic Retreat. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, October) Building Resiliency; Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue. Presented at University of Northern Colorado. Greeley, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, October) Wellness for Clinicians- Resiliency Support. Presented at University of Colorado’s Fellowship Retreat. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, October) Resiliency for Healthcare. Presented at Pediatric Call Center Retreat. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, October) Resiliency in Healthcare: Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue. Presented at End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Pediatric Palliative Care. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, October) C3: Connection, Community, Compassion. Presented at Professional Development Retreat. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C., Reese, J. (2019, September) Resiliency Seminar. Presented at Pulmonary Advanced Practice Provider Retreat. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, September) Resiliency in Healthcare - Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue. Key note at Reconnect to Caring Symposium, Good Samaritan Medical Center Conference Center. Lafayette, Co.
Griffin, C. (2019, September) Resiliency in Healthcare: Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue. Presented at 28th Annual O'Neil Pediatric Clinical Update. Denver, Co.
Griffin, C., Reese, J. (2019, August) Team Resiliency Seminar. Presented at Lifestyle Medicine Team Retreat. Denver, Co.
Griffin, C. (2019, May) Resiliency in Healthcare: Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue. Presented at Medical Center of Aurora Nurses Week. Denver, Co
Griffin, C. (2019, April) Building Resiliency: Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue. Presented at the CHIP retreat, Children’s Hospital Colorado. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, April) Building Resiliency. Presented at the Sonogram staff meeting, Children’s Hospital Colorado. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, April) Building Resiliency: Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue. Presented at the Lifestyles Medicine lecture series Children’s Hospital Colorado. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, March) Building Resiliency: From Surviving to Thriving. Presented at the Performance Improvement team at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, March) Building Resiliency. Presented to MC2 students Children’s Hospital Colorado. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, February) Resiliency in Healthcare; Experiencing Compassion without Fatigue. Presented at Nursing Leadership Connection, Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, February) Resilience; Building the Capacity for thriving without fatigue. Presented at the Information Technology retreat Children’s Hospital Colorado. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2019, February) Resiliency and Trauma; From Surviving to Thriving. Presented at Burn Survivor Event, Swedish Medical Center. Englewood, CO.
Griffin, C. (2018, December) Resiliency in Healthcare; CO-Creating safe and Healing Environments. Presented at Occupational Health/Physical Therapy retreat. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2018, December) Resiliency in Health Care. Presented at Children’s Hospital Colorado Leadership Retreat. Colorado Spring, CO.
Griffin, C & Coe, S. (2018, November) Pause, Presence & Peace: Co-creating Safe and Healing Environments with Families. Presented at ASHA Annual Convention. Boston, MA.
Griffin, C. , Jacobs-Lowry, S., Givens, P. (2018, October). Caring Science and Resiliency at a Large Pediatric Academic Hospital. Presented at the International Caritas Consortium, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C., Jacobs-Lowry, S. (2018), November) Put on your own mask first: Building Resiliency. Presented at Mapleton High School teachers professional development series. Denver, Co.
Griffin, C., (2018, October) Nurturing the community of foster care with Caring Science. Presented at the International Caritas Consortium. Brighton, England.
Griffin, C. (2018, September) Resiliency at Children's Hospital Colorado. Creating a New Story of Care. Presented at the National Summit on Promoting Well-Being and Resilience in Healthcare. Cleveland, OH.
Griffin, C. (2018, September) Self-Care and Resiliency. Presented to Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Fellowship. Denver, Co.
Griffin, C. (2018, August) Building Resiliency as a Car Provider. Presented at Colorado University: Physician’s Assistant Student Boot Camp. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2018, July) Mentoring Matters. Presented at Children’s Hospital Colorado, School Health retreat. Denver, Co.
Griffin, C., Reese, J (2018, June) Resiliency for Health Care Providers. Presented at Colorado Mental Health Institute. Pueblo, CO.
Griffin, C., (2018, May) If you know your Why you can withstand the How. Nurturing your Why. Presented at Association for the education of Children with medical needs (AECON) national Conference. Aurora, Co.
Griffin, C., (2018, March) Are you resilient in practice? Presented at Health One/Swedish Medical Center’s A Night for Healthcare Providers. Denver, Co.
Griffin, C., Reese, J. (2018, March) A Comprehensive Resiliency Program at a Large Pediatric Academic Center. Impact Session at Children’s Hospital Association Quality and Safety Conference. Sand Diego, CA.
Griffin, C. (2018, January) Nurturing Compassion Satisfaction: Honoring the Call to Care. Presented at Bringing Health & Care Back to Healthcare Conference. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C., Reese, J. (2017, December) Resiliency at Children's Hospital Colorado: Compassionate Leadership. Presented at Team Leader Development Conference. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2017, October) Compassion Fatigue in New Graduate Pediatric Nurses: Evaluation of a Caritas-HeartMath Intervention. Presented at 23rd International Caritas Consortium One World: Connecting through Caring Consciousness. Stanford, CA.
Griffin, C. (2017, October) Caritas Circle: A Hospital Based Professional Development Program. Presented at 23rd International Caritas Consortium One World: Connecting through Caring Consciousness. Stanford, CA.
Griffin, C. (2017, September). Living Caritas. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Palo Alto, California.
Griffin, C. (2017, September). The Sacred Moments of Care. Presented at the Colorado Nursing Association Annual Conference. Denver, Co.
Griffin, C. (2017, September). Living the Caritas Processes. Presented to nursing students from Yamagata Prefectural University Japan. Denver, CO
Griffin, C. (2017, July). HeartMath: The resiliency advantage. Presented at the Harp in Worship Therapeutic Music Day, Denver Co.
Griffin, C., Farrington, T., Johnson-Bortolotto, S. (2017, May). HeartMath: A tool for Personal Resiliency. Presented at the 38th Annual Perinatal Clinical Update, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2017, April) Resiliency among healthcare providers. Presented at CU Student Nurse Association, Colorado University, Aurora, Co.
Griffin, C., Horton-Deutsch, S., Oman, K. (2017, April). Caring Science: Evolving Scholarship, Education and Practice in Healthcare. Presented at Grand Rounds, Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2017, April). Living Caritas. Presented to 200 staff in the Maternity unit at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Palo Alto, California.
Griffin, C. (2016, December). Resiliency Workshop. Presented to NICU Leadership.
Griffin, C., & Reese, J. (2016, December). Children’s Hospital Colorado Resiliency Collaborative. Caring changes our lives. Presented at the CHCO Team Leader Conference. Denver, CO
Griffin, C. (2016, October). The Sacred Moments of Care- Pause, Presence and Peace. Presentation at the International Caring Consortium, Boston, MA.
Griffin, C. (2016, October). The synergy of Caring Science and HeartMath at a System Level. Plenary panel presentation at the International Caring Consortium, Boston, MA.
Browning, R., Carr, S., & Watson, J. (2016, September). Presentation.Palo Alto, CA
Griffin, C. (2016, August). Living the Caritas Processes. Presented to nursing students from Yamagata Prefectural University Japan. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2016, June). Resiliency and Heart Intelligence. A Roadmap for Healthy Living. Presented at the 32nd Annual Community and School Health Pediatric Conference and Pediatric Telephone. Denver, CO
Griffin, C. & Horton-Deutsch, S. (2016, May). Translating Caring Science into Nursing Practice: Evolving the Nursing Culture: A Philosophy, Ethic and Practice for the health care professional of the 21st Century. Presented to Cherry Creek School Nurses. Cherry Creek, CO
Griffin, C. (2016, February). HeartMath- The Resiliency Advantage. Podium presentation at the AACN American Association of Critical Care Nurses conference. Denver, CO
Griffin, C. (2016, February). HeartMath Emotional Intelligence and Handling Stress. Presentation at Centura Health- SDG Quality Retreat. Denver, CO
Griffin, C. (2016, January & February) HeartMath: Resiliency Advantage tools. Longitudinal Small Group Curriculum, Residents at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2016, Various Dates) HeartMath for Care Providers. Re-Ignite Passion Retreat. The Denver Hospice. Denver, CO
Griffin, C., Browning, R. (2015, October) Caritas HeartMath: Where Caring Science Meets Heart Science. Presented at International Caring Consortium Pre-Conference Workshop. Onalaska, WI.
Griffin, C., Browning, R. (2015, October) HeartMath- Resiliency Advantage. Presented for Nurse Educators and managers at University Hospital Retreat. Denver, CO
Griffin, C., (2015, August). HeartMath- Resiliency advantage. Presented at University of Colorado College of Nursing. Denver, CO
Griffin, C.; Johnson, K. (2015, April). Compassion Fatigue to Resiliency. 27th Annual Rocky Mountain Interprofessional Research & Evidence-Based Practice Symposium, Denver CO
Griffin, C. (2015, June) HeartMath: Resiliency Advantage. Presentation at University Hospital Pulmonary Unit. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2014, July). Resilient Nurses; How health care providers handle their stressful profession to avoid burnout and “compassion fatigue”. Humankind podcast on NPR, produced by David Freudberg. Denver, CO
Griffin, C. (2013, March) Managing Stress as a Colorado Nurse Leader the HeartMath Way. CONL Conference. Denver, CO
Griffin, C.; Johnson, K. (2013, April) From Compassion Fatigue to Resiliency. Presented at HeartMath International Best Practice Conference with Kelly Johnson. Boulder Creek, California.
Griffin, C. (2013, November). How to incorporate Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring Science into everyday practice. Presented at 2013 Colorado School Nurse Conference. Podium Presentation. Denver, CO.
Griffin, C. (2012, April) Integrating Caring Science/Heart Science to Transform Professional Practice and Create Healing Environments. Presented at International Caritas Consortium. Podium Presentation. Boulder, CO.
Griffin, C. (2012, October) Pause to Care. Presented at International Caritas Consortium. Poster Presentation- Boulder, CO
Griffin, C. (2012, September) HeartMath at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Presented at O’Neil Conference. Denver, CO
Griffin, C., Jacobs-Lowry, S. (2011, September) O‘Neil Conference Care for the Care Giver: How to Incorporate Jean Watson’s "Theory of Caring Science" into Everyday Practices at TCH. Denver, CO