Training Topics & Commitments

Training Topics

• 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