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Integrating Mindfulness, Meditation and Compassion in Care. Skills training in contemplative care for healthcare professionals and trained volunteers.
March 1-4, 2012 | Onsite check-in opens Thursday, March 1st at 3 PM. Dinner at 6PM followed by the first session. Retreat closes following lunch on Sunday, March 4th | Register now
The Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY | Google map
With Kirsten Deleo and Ann Allegre.
Fee: $275 Early Bird Fee (until February 1, 2012) | $300
Lodging and Meals: separate fee through Garrison Institute
19.5 CEUs are available.
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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
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Kirsten DeLeo, MA, International Training Manager and Senior Educator, Spiritual Care Education Program.
Drawing from more than fifteen years' experience accompanying people in the last phase of life, Kirsten leads trainings for professionals and the public, and is faculty for Naropa University's 'Contemplative End of Life Care' training. She is a counselor specializing in spiritual care, and in supporting people living with illness. Kirsten completed a three-year meditation retreat under the guidance of Sogyal Rinpoche and is a Senior Meditation Instructor in Rigpa. |
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Dr Ann Allegre MD, FACP, Director of medical programs, Kansas City Hospice, medical director of palliative care, Providence Health, professor of medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine and educator for the Spiritual Care Education Program. She was awarded the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine “Project on Death in America Community Leadership in Palliative Care Award” in 2007, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the advancement of the field of palliative medicine through the education and training of future leaders. She was named as Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 2008 and honored with the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon 2011 Award in the senior palliative care physician category.
Ann is an educator with the Spiritual Care Program and faculty of Spiritual Care's "Contemplative End-of-Life Care Certificate Program" at Naropa. |
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