A Heart-to-Heart with Dr. Jonathan Fisher

Please join us for a special presentation with Dr. Jonathan Fisher, MD, FACC—Harvard-trained cardiologist, mindfulness teacher, and best-selling author of Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness.

In this inspiring and practical session, Dr. Fisher will share how we can offer deep empathy and connection while safeguarding our own emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Drawing from neuroscience, mindfulness, and the science of human connection, he offers evidence-based strategies to strengthen presence, communication, and resilience.

A Heart-to-Heart with Dr. Jonathan Fisher
The Art and Science of Caring for Others Without Losing Yourself

Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: CNY Community Foundation’s Philanthropy Center, Syracuse, NY
Online: Available via Zoom (registration required)

You can experience this event in person at the CNY Community Foundation’s Philanthropy Center in Syracuse or virtually via Zoom. Registration is required for both options.

Register Now to Reserve Your Seat

This program is part of the Compassionate Heart Series, presented by the Saint Marianne Cope Museum in collaboration with Francis House, with support from St. Joseph’s Health and Nascentia Health.

The Compassionate Heart Series is a series of programs that support the values of presence, respect, and empathy to caregivers and patients.

This ongoing series includes meaningful workshops and gatherings. Each session offers a blend of reflection, storytelling, learning, and community. It is designed to nurture the inner lives of those who so often put others first.

Stay tuned, the Compassionate Heart Series will continue through winter with further programming.

At the Saint Marianne Cope Museum, we celebrate a woman who was a pioneer in holistic healthcare. Her innovations in hygiene and hospital care, patients’ rights and whole mind, body and spirit healing, are especially relevant today. The compassion, hope, beauty and dignity given to her patients in the hospitals she administered is the foundation that we build upon through providing support services for people experiencing life’s challenges.

The Sister Kathleen Osbelt Center of Francis House uses our experience as a social-model of community care for the dying and our Franciscan values to increase awareness, educate, serve, and support persons with terminal illness and those who care for them. Our core values of compassion, acceptance, respect and dignity guide and inform our care and outreach. We offer community education aligned with empowering a healthy and natural dying and grieving process, and to support compassionate care for people on the journey at the end-of-life.