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The Mindfulness & Compassion Training Program for Healthcare
and End-of-Life Professionals is a 9-month, 5-Module program that provides 10-days of workshop training as well as ongoing support in developing the skills of mindfulness and  compassion in our everyday lives and in our workplace.

New to 2017, Module 1 can now be taken as a stand alone foundational course:
 Being Present: The Roots & Practices of Everyday Mindfulness

 Program Overview:

The Mindfulness & Compassion program is designed for those professionals working in Healthcare and in Hospice Palliative Care. Our prime focus is to provide mindfulness-based training for caregivers that gives them essential inner resources and relationship-centered skills, such as enhanced empathy, deep listening, and compassion-based approaches, which cultivate and develop “presence” or “being with” patients, family members, and coworkers.

From our interprofessional faculty, healthcare providers will learn mindful awareness as the ground for establishing ease and well-being, compassion as the basis for maintaining self-other awareness, and mindful listening as the skillful means in mediating relationships in the human encounter with life and with death.

The complete curriculum will:

•  include training in the foundations and theory of mindfulness practice, as a skill that develops presence, as well as mindfulness strategies applicable in the workplace, in everyday life, and in establishing a daily mindfulness practice;

• provide crucial experiential communication and relationship building skills, through “mindful listening” practices that enhances the quality of care for patients, family members, and other team members, including our selves;

• focus on neuroscientific evidence supporting the efficacy of mindfulness practice, with special focus on the latest research from the healthcare field that supports the application of mindfulness and compassion as best practices in caregiving and self care;

• teach compassion-based approaches to address and alleviate suffering of patients and the entire care team; 

• explore the effects of Empathy Fatigue, burnout and moral distress and the use of healthy empathy; 

• integrate team building and interprofessional collaboration skills drawn from a “relationship-centered" model  and from the latest systems approaches in applying mindfulness and compassion skills; 

• address the psycho-social-spiritual domains within the context of EOL caregiving, including working with children, complex suffering, physician hastened death, systemic issues, moral distress and structural violence, and our personal relationship to illness, death and dying; 

• build mindfulness and compassion skills within all aspects of Healthcare and End-of-Life caregiving through exploring case studies and clinical applications to complex scenarios.

MODULE ONE  :
BEING PRESENT: THE ROOTS OF EVERYDAY MINDFULNESS
SEPTEMBER 23 - 24, 2017

MODULE TWO : 
SILENT RETREAT: MEETINGS AT THE EDGE OF LIVING & DYING                         NOVEMBER 25 - 26,  2017

MODULE THREE :      
COMPASSIONATE CARE: HEALTHY EMPATHY  & PRESENCE                              JANUARY 27 - 28, 2018             

MODULE FOUR :        
RELATIONAL MINDFULNESS & COLLABORATION
MARCH 10 - 11, 2018         

MODULE FIVE :      
INTEGRATING MINDFULNESS & COMPASSION IN WHOLE  PERSON CARE
MAY 5 - 6, 2018

Our  training intention is to provide you with resources and practical inner tools in sustaining your self and in supporting your work in healthcare through mindfulness & compassion-based caregiver training, practices and skills in a supportive interprofessional environment.

 If you have any questions, don't hesitate to call us.               

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In Service, (Rev.) Andrew Blake, Program Director