Compassionate End-of-Life Care Program
Sep 21st, 2011 by admin
Compassionate End-of-Life Care, a specialized 3-day contemplative skills training retreat for professional health care workers and trained volunteers offered by Rigpa’s Spiritual Care Program.
The Spiritual Care Program, an international education, care, and outreach program of Rigpa, integrates the widom practices of Buddhism, and particularly Tibetan Buddhism, and with modern systems of care.
This training intensive introduces core elements of mindfulness and contemplative care with practices and experiential methods that enable caregivers to bring presence, compassion and authenticity to their communication and work with others.
What: Compassionate End-of-Life Care
When: October 14th – 16th, 2011
Where: Center for Wisdom & Compassion, Berne, NY
Topics & Objectives include:
• Cultivating presence through mindfulness meditation practice
• Self-care and preventing burn-out
• Methods for cultivating Contemplative Listening
• Responding to the needs of terminally ill and their families
• Healing relationships and finding meaning
• Creating a peaceful & sacred environment to transform dying
Price: $250
CEU’s are available.
For more information about the program or download our flyer: http://www.spcare.org/images/stories/flyers/CEoL_Berne_2011_e-version.pdf
Have questions? Email usa@spcare.org or go to http://www.spcare.org/en/edu/events-usa/114-compassion-eol-tgi-2011.html