An Introduction to the Contemplative Approach - training intensive for professionals and trained volunteers

October 14-16, 2011

Center for Wisdom and Compassion, Berne, NY | Getting there

With Kirsten Deleo , Ann Allegre and Pam Russell . 

Program Fee: Early Bird Price extended! $250

15 CE's are available

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This intensive introduces key elements of our 5-months certificate program in the contemplative approach to care for the dying at the Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. It is invaluable for anyone working or volunteering in end-of-life care.

It builds essential competencies for providing compassionate service to the terminally ill. It offers a unique opportunity to explore our own understanding about death, it’s spiritual dimension, and how we relate to life and those we care for. The training brings together the best knowledge of the modern hospice and ancient wisdom as presented in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. It offers an integrated approach for professionals from diverse cultural and spiritual backgrounds.

A contemplative approach to end-of-life care opens patients and clinicians to remarkable healing and transformation. As a palliative medicine clinician at several prestigious academic medical centers, I have witnessed the powerful impact these trainings have had upon our ability to meet the needs of dying patients and their families. The practical but profound skills developed through this course will radically enhance your ability to provide more effective and compassionate care for your patients. They will also enliven your passion for your work as a healer and nurture your own flourishing."
- James Duffy, MD FANPA FAAHPM DABMA, 
Professor of Psychiatry, M D Anderson Cancer Center Fellow, John P McGovern Center for Health, Healing, and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas

Skills Training Topics Include:

• Cultivating ‘presence’ through mindfulness, meditation and compassion
• Self-care for caregivers
• Methods for ‘Contemplative Listening’
• Responding to the needs of terminally ill patients and their families
• Healing relationships and finding meaning
• Creating a peaceful environment to transform dying from a medical event into a sacred journey

Faculty

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.

Pam Russell, LMSW, Senior Educator, Spiritual Care Education Program. Pamela is an end-of-life care social worker and bereavement counselor with over twenty years' experience in elder care in long-term care facilities. She is faculty for Naropa University's 'Contemplative End of Life Care' training, and a Rigpa meditation instructor.

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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