Exploring Compassion and Fearlessness at the End-of-Life
Feb 5th, 2009 by admin
(Jul 10, 2009 — Jul 12, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=280)
This retreat is for professional and family caregivers, those with life-threatening illness and those wishing to explore approaches to end-of-life care and issues related to dying and death. Participants will explore our views of pain, suffering, mortality, and freedom from suffering; perspectives on our encounter with death, as well as psycho-spiritual and contemplative approaches to care of the dying; the development of compassion and resilience in care of the dying, and methods for cultivating empathy, altruism, and compassion and sustaining resilience as we care for dying people.
The program includes practices and teachings offered by two pioneers and close friends in this field, Frank Ostaseski, who founded the famous Zen Hospice at San Francisco Zen center and Founder and Director of the Metta Institute, and Roshi Joan Halifax, who has worked in the end-of-life care field for over forty years. Her recent book: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, is highly acclaimed for its depth and practicality.