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Fall 2020 Workshop
"Being Present with Dying"
Basic End-of-Life Doula Skills for Family & Community

Saturday, October 3, 2020 • 10:00 am - 1:00pm, MDT
Sunday, October 4, 2020 • 1:00 pm - 4:00pm, MDT

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"BEING PRESENT"
Sat. Morning, October3
  (10 am-1:00 pm MT)
Welcome

Overview of workshop

Brief check-in with participants – 1 thing you’d most like to explore during these two sessions

Overview of End-of-Life in 2020 – new ways & old wisdom ways
  • Innovations in end-of-life care
  • How has the presence of COVID changed how we die, how we give care, how we mourn & grieve?
Basic introduction to mindfulness & compassionate presence
  • Foundation of non-local consciousness
  • Compassionate communication/presence at end-of-life
Compassionate communication skill-building (in breakout rooms of 2-3 people)
 
(Brief Break)

Experiential practice of gratitude & letting-go

Discussion of grief & loss

Personal inventory of experiences with dying, grief & loss
  • What have your experiences with grief and loss taught you about grief? (Individual journaling)
  • How might this impact your work as a community doula? (debrief in larger group)
"LETTING GO"
Sunday afternoon, October 4
(1:00-4:00 pm MT)
Welcome

Overview of session

Audio recording: "Unspeakable Grace & Journaling"

How the body dies:
  • Physically, emotionally, spiritually
Naming and normalizing the changes:
  • consciousness
  • mysteries
  • symbolic language
Your wishes for the last part of your life: (in breakout rooms of 2-3 people)
  • Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually
  • After-death care
  • What you leave behind
 (Brief Break)
 
Discussion of impact of COVID
  • How to be of service when we can’t be together physically
  • Caregiving, healing
  • Vigil, grief support
Your next steps

Closing
Note: Upon registration, you will receive compelling materials to read before the course starts, as well as a resource list at the end of the course.           We will utilize lecture, stories and group work throughout the two days. There will be time for journaling, as well as several experiential exercises we will do together.
          Zoom link info will be sent by email to all registrants a day of two before the workshop.


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