Applying the Skills of Meditation, Compassion, and Mindful Listening in Health Care

Especially suited for those working in health care, psychology, social services and related disciplines.

1-3 June, 2012 | Fri and Sat 9.30 - 17.30, Sun til 16.30

Schweisfurth-Stiftung, Südliches Schlossrondell 1, 80638 München

With [Christine Longaker], Dr. Almut Göppert, Ursula Aufdenblatten and Beate Dirkschnieder | We are sorry to announce that due to to unforeseen circumstances, Christine Longaker is not able to give the seminar. Christine has asked an experienced team, who trained by her and who have given the seminar before, to step in to hold it in her place.

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Responding effectively to the needs of patients remains an on-going professional and deeply personal challenge. Compassion and Presence offers the opportunity to learn contemplative resources that support you in your life and work, and enhance the way you offer care - with a renewed sense of joy, confidence, and fulfillment. Drawing from meditations taught in the wisdom tradition of Tibet, this training focuses on cultivating presence and mindfulness, and deepening the capacity for compassion, so that you can remain present, spacious and loving in the face of suffering.

The training introduces insights and contemplations from Sogyal Rinpoche's groundbreaking book, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and demonstrates in practical ways how to appropriately integrate these practices of meditation, contemplative listening, and compassion in any medical setting.

Compassion and Presence is for anyone who cares for others in hospice, palliative care, critical care, gerontology, oncology, general medicine, nursing, emergency medicine, pastoral care, psychology, social work, health care education, and other allied health professions. It will resonate with professionals and volunteers from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds.

The training focuses on four core competencies:

• Holding authentic presence and communication.
• Deepening one's ability to extend compassion toward oneself and others.
• Developing a personal understanding of suffering, and how to be present with suffering.
• Applying contemplative practices for self-care.

Methods of training

Lectures, discussion, writing, reflection, contemplative practice, and interactive methods for integrating learning.

Training Topics

• Spirituality and healthcare - an introduction to the spiritual care model of compassionate care
• Cultivating presence through meditation and mindfulness practice
• Methods for deepening compassion
• Responding to suffering
• Training in contemplative listening
• Creating a sacred environment
• Compassionate self-care for alleviating stress, healing burnout, and transforming challenging situations
• Caregiving as spiritual practice
• Scientific research on the benefits of training in meditation and compassion in medical care work.

Faculty

Dr. med. Almut Göppert, Strahlentherapeutin und Palliativmedizinerin, Projektleiterin von Sukhavati – Spiritual Care Center Bad Saarow, seit 1999 Kursleiterin im Programm für spirituelle Begleitung.

Dr. med. Ursula Aufdenblatten, Fachärztin für Innere Medizin, Rheumatologie und Homöopathie mit eigener Praxis in Zürich. Sie ist Kursleiterin des Studienprogramms “Spirituelle Begleitung von Kranken und Sterbenden“ in Zürich und assistiert in Seminaren von Christine Longaker, der Autorin des Buches: „Dem Tod begegnen und Hoffnung finden“. Auch assistiert sie Kirsten DeLeo, Dozentin an der Naropa Universität in Colorado, die Kurse für „Kontemplative Sterbebegleitung“, für Fachpersonen im medizinischen und sozialen Bereich anbietet.

Beate Dirkschnieder ist Dipl.-Sozialarbeiterin und seit vielen Jahren in der Hospiz- und Trauerarbeit tätig.