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Topics & Commitments
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Training Topics Include:
Contemplative Care and Personal Transformation
- Qualities of contemplative caregiving
- Cultivating ‘presence’ through meditation
- Reflections on impermanence and death
- Self-care for caregivers: recognizing burnout, and contemplative practice for preventing burnout
- Deepening genuine compassion
- Integrating meditation with health care work and daily life
- Caregiving as spiritual practice
Training in Contemplative Listening
- Methods for ‘Contemplative Listening’ and their practical applications
- ‘Council’ - a model for family and bereavement support, and team meetings
- Speaking about death and supporting people in denial
- Guidelines for communicating with families
Supporting the Dying and Their Families
- Assessing and responding to the needs of the dying
- Understanding and transforming suffering
- Family dynamics and supporting families
- Healing relationships
- Methods for resolving unfinished business
- Needs of the elderly: aging and dementia
- Trends in hospice and palliative care
Spiritual Care
- What spiritual care really means
- Four resources for spiritual care
- The spiritual dimension of life and death
- Recognizing and addressing spiritual pain
- Spiritual preparation for death
- Finding meaning: supporting those not affiliated with a faith tradition
- Cultural and religious aspects of caregiving
Bereavement
- The process of bereavement
- Supporting the bereaved
- The spiritual dimension of bereavement
Contemplative Practices
- The Three Noble Principles - creating a sacred environment for life and work
- Mind, meditation and the nature of mind
- Practices for awakening and deepening compassion
- Seeing the Other as ‘Another You’ and
Putting Yourself in Another's Place
- Loving Kindness
- Forgiveness Practice
- Tonglen: Giving and Receiving
- Christian meditation: ‘Centering Prayer’
- The Heart Practice
- Essential Phowa for healing and the moment of death
- Working with thoughts and emotions
Required Reading
- Sogyal Rinpoche; The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying; San Francisco; Harper Collins, 1992
- Christine Longaker; Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying; New York; Doubleday, 1997
- Joanne Lynn, M.D.; Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness; New York; Oxford University Press, 1999
- Puchalski, Christina M., & Ferrell, Betty. Making Health Care Whole. West Conshohocken PA; Templeton Press, 2010.
Commitments
Student 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
- Deeply explore how to bring contemplative into their lives and work, and to positively influence the delivery of end-of-life care
- Explore the deeper dimensions of end of life care for oneself and others
- Engage with other professionals in exploring the ways contemplative care positively influences the delivery of end-of-life care
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