Bringing P.E.A.C.E. to Those You Care For- Part 1
Sat. May 02
9:00am - 3:00pm
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P.E.A.C.E. = Presence, Equanimity, Attentive Appreciation, Compassion and Ethical Engagement.
Cecile Saunders., a nurse who started the 1st hospice in the UK in 1967, spoke of Total Pain at the end of life as involving the medical, emotional, spiritual and mental aspects of a person. She also said that “The way we deliver care can touch the hidden places”. Those are the places of both suffering and joy.
Bringing P.E.A.C.E.is a unique on-line retreat. It's an experiential offering that explores the ways we care for one another, how we tend to total pain and how we touch the hidden places in those we care for in ways that maintain or elevate their dignity and well-being.
You’ll learn & practice ways to skillfully engage with the non-medical aspects of suffering at the end of life and care for yourself at the same time.
In Part 1 we explore Presence, Equanimity and Attentive Appreciation. We'll also look at the differences between fixing, helping and serve and how they impact the care we give.
I’ll share stories and printable handouts and guide us through practical skills gleaned from 30 yrs of direct experience with dying persons and their families. My experience includes 5 years as faculty for the Upaya Zen Center's Being With Dying Program, a specialized degree in Hospice and Grief Counseling from the NM Kubler Ross School, 15 years training hospice volunteers, many years offering Spiritual Care and Bereavement to hospice patients and designing and presenting end of life curriculum in the U.S., Dubai and India.
I'm honored and humbled to have been recently ordained by Roshi Joan Halifax as a Buddhist Chaplin in the White Plum lineage. My work continues to be about spiritual growth as a part of our human legacy and the ways "Bringing P.E.A.C.E." speaks to meeting human needs, how those ways of being can apply in diverse cultural settings and is not about holding any specific religious belief.
We’ll have time for discussion, simple rituals and interactive practices for deepening your capacities for Presence, Equanimity and Attentive Appreciation as components of healing care.
This retreat invites nurses, hospice workers, social workers, therapists, mental health professionals, ER staff, professional and family caregivers and others who tend to suffering at the end of life or care for those with chronic or terminal illness.
