Offered by Rigpa's Spiritual Care Program through Naropa University’s Distance Learning since 2003.

Online session: September 3 – December 22, 2013
Residential session in New York: October 2 – October 11, 2013

Accepting Applications Now | CEUs available

This program may be the most important I have ever taken. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to skillfully bring a deeper dimension of spiritual life to their caregiving.
~ Dennis McCann, St. Vincent’s Medical Center

The course

The course combines 15-weeks of on-line learning with an 8-day residential retreat at Light on the Hill in upstate New York, and addresses crucial training needs most frequently requested by professionals, including:

• communicating about dying and death
• enhancing empathy and compassion
• helping patients find new meaning, sources of strength, and ways to make a genuine connection with loved ones
• facilitating the process of healing relationships, resolving unfinished business, and saying goodbye
• creating a peaceful environment for dying
• supporting the bereaved
• healing / preventing burnout

The Contemplative End-of-Life Care Certificate Program, inspired by Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, brings together authentic and practical contemplative resources with the knowledge and skills of modern hospice and palliative care.

It offers the unique opportunity to study and practice together in a community of like-minded peers from across the country and abroad.

Who Should Apply

Professionals working in the fields of medicine, human and social services, and students and trained volunteers who are currently engaged in a clinical setting, whether new to contemplative practice or experienced, are encouraged to apply.