Training Topics & Commitments

Communicating about dying and death

• Breaking bad news
• Communicating effectively with patients and families
• Speaking with children about death

Meditation, compassion, and mindfulness practices

• Preparing spiritually for death
• Spiritual care after death
• Integrating meditation with daily life and work

Responding to suffering

• Understanding and transforming suffering
• Recognizing and addressing spiritual pain
• Understanding the experience of dying and where hope lies in death

Practical considerations in end-of-life care

• Effective pain and symptom management
• Legal and ethical issues
• Multi-cultural views of death
• Hospice and palliative care in our changing world

Understanding grief and supporting the bereaved

• Healing relationships and completing unfinished business
• Supporting survivors of sudden death

Commitments

As a participant, you are expected to:

• Maintain a daily meditation practice
• Integrate the practice in your work and keep a journal of insights
• Design a project or research based on a training theme
• Propose ways to positively impact the delivery of end-of-life care in your local community and the institution in which you work