Workshops

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Topics include but are not limited to:

 

Finding Solid Ground: Navigating End-of-Life Decisions

End-of-life decisions are rarely simple. Fear, misinformation, and conflicting values and dynamics can make it harder to honor what matters most to the person at the center of care. Yet with the right tools and awareness, even the most difficult conversations can become opportunities for clarity, connection, and meaningful guidance.

This course helps healthcare professionals, caregivers, and families recognize what complicates end-of-life decision-making –and develop practical strategies to compassionately navigate early warning signs of miscommunication. By understanding and focusing on the patient’s wishes, you can find solid ground even when dynamics shift.

When approaching these conversations with skill and intention, we help people find their way through one of life’s most profound passages.

 

From Touchy to Touching—Demystifying the Dying Process

This class offers a simple and compassionate exploration of the dying process, transforming fear into understanding. We’ll examine the physical changes, psychosocial dynamics, and profound mysteries that may accompany life’s final transition.

By learning about the body’s natural wisdom in guiding the dying process, you’ll gain clarity and be better prepared to anticipate changes, make informed decisions and provide comfort, invite creating closure and awe during to honor this final passage, and invite creating closure and awe to honor this final passage.

 

 

Transforming Dying, Transforming Ourselves

Approaching the end of life can stir profound emotions–Uncertainty, fears about quality of life, losing independence, being a burden and even thoughts of hastening death.  Yet this time can also become an unexpected journey of discovering inner strength and exploring what truly matters.

This presentation includes viewing the documentary “Living Through Dying: The Struggle for Grace,”  real stories of people navigating these challenges, followed by time to reflect and share from your experience.

Together, we’ll explore how moments of struggle can become opportunities for grace, meaningful connection, and renewed purpose — ultimately transforming the experience for both those facing terminal illness and those who care for them.

More Than Words: The Art of Presence in End-of-Life Care

Effective end-of-life care extends far beyond clinical expertise — it lives in the quality of our presence and the authenticity of our connection. Whether you’re a healthcare professional, family caregiver, or volunteer, this experiential class explores what it truly means to be a healer, examining how vulnerability and intentional communication set the foundation for meaningful care.

Through guided exercises, you’ll practice simple yet powerful techniques that transform difficult conversations, create space for what matters most, and honor the profound trust placed in caregivers during life’s final chapter. You’ll leave with practical skills to listen more deeply, respond with greater compassion, and communicate in ways that bring comfort and dignity to those facing death.

Because at the end of life, how we show up matters as much as anything we do.

 

The Impact of Grief – On Us and Those We Serve

Grief doesn’t stay neatly in one corner of our lives — it follows us into patient rooms, family conversations, and our most difficult moments. This course explores how grief shapes both those we care for and ourselves, whether you come as a healthcare professional or someone who has loved and lost.

Through reflection on grief styles, cumulative loss, and our own personal histories, participants will explore how unprocessed grief quietly complicates communication, decision-making, and relationships. We’ll wrestle with the harder questions — the cost of not grieving, the risk of burnout, and whether we can afford to be vulnerable in front of others — while building tools to respond to grief with greater awareness, authenticity, and compassion.

Understanding our own grief is the first step toward truly being there for others.

Worst Fear Meets Best Friend: Understanding Hospice Care

For many people, the word “hospice” triggers fear or a sense of giving up — yet those who receive it often describe it as one of the greatest gifts of their final chapter. So why do so many patients who could benefit never receive it, or receive it too late?

This course cuts through the myths that keep patients and families from accessing hospice care, replacing common fears with understanding. Whether you are a healthcare professional navigating difficult conversations, or the person trying to make an overwhelming decision, you’ll leave with an understanding of your choices and the comprehensive approach for the symptom management, services, and support that hospice offers.

We’ll explore how to recognize the right time for hospice, how to talk about it honestly and compassionately, what to expect, and how to choose a program. Because when hospice is understood and accessed at the right time, it doesn’t signal the end of hope — it redefines it.

 

Anchors in the Storm: Essential Tools for Caregivers

Caring for someone with a terminal illness brings profound challenges: emotional exhaustion, physical demands, and deep isolation. This class offers practical support and compassionate guidance rooted in an essential truth—you and the person you’re caring for are in this experience together.

We’ll explore the complex emotions you may be facing: anticipatory grief, cumulative loss, fear, and the strain on your own well-being. Together, we’ll develop self-care strategies that sustain you, improve communication with healthcare providers, and tools to ask for help when you need it most.

This class will also deepen your understanding of what your loved one or patient may be experiencing, helping you navigate this path with greater empathy, connection, and grace. These insights will help you navigate this path with greater empathy by recognizing the shared humanity of this experience.

 

Letting Go: An Immersive Journey into Dying 

This interactive offering is not your typical presentation—it’s a profound, deeply personal experience. Through a carefully guided exercise, you’ll step into the reality of your own mortality, experiencing what it might feel like emotionally to face the end of life.

As you move through this immersive journey, you’ll identify areas you hold most dear in your life —and then be invited to release connection to those items and elements of yourself. This creates space for powerful insights about what truly matters, what you fear, and what you hope for in your final moments.

Participants consistently describe this experience as transformative—one that breaks through intellectual understanding to touch something deeper about what it means to be a human being and to contemplate your own death. You’ll have time for quiet reflection and supported sharing as you process what emerges.

This exercise cultivates genuine compassion, not just for those we care for, but for ourselves and the universal human experience of facing death. Come prepared to be vulnerable, to feel deeply, and to emerge with a shifted perspective on both dying and living.

Note: This class is part of a full workshop, and involves emotional intensity and personal exploration. Please consider the readiness of your group for this kind of deep work.

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