Seminars for Professionals
No matter how skilled you are in your profession, dealing with death and the dying is a very sensitive and challenging area of practice. It takes deep emotional insight to handle each situation well. Our role as professionals is crucial and can determine whether the experience is good or bad, for those dying, their family and friends, and also for yourselves.
Introductory seminar
Living Well, Dying Well offers a range of seminars for health and care professionals
on this subject. In our introductory one-day seminar we look at the emotional and social taboos surrounding death and the dying and how we might be better prepared to deal with them.
We work creatively using a range of exercises to help us share, reflect, and enhance our own understanding of the topic. The atmosphere is supportive, the style is interactive and the insights come thick and fast.
All medical and health professionals are welcome. Certificates of attendance for CPD will be awarded.
EMRACING DEATH & DYING.
May 19th 2012,
with Brian Graham and Hermione Elliott
Subud Centre, Lewes, E Sussex. 75 pounds An interactive workshop open to all, exploring our relationship with death and dying in a supportive environment. An opportunity to give voice to all those thoughts and feelings about death, and to ask the questions that we may have been afraid to ask.
• Building awareness, skills and confidence in the area of death and dying.
• Supporting those around us who may be engaged with this in their lives.
This experiential workshop is open to all. CPD certificates will be issued to professionals and volunteers working in this field. It is a stand alone workshop and is part of a continuing series on this subject.
Three-Day Seminar Programme
WORKING WITH DEATH AND DYING - A residential course for counsellors and psychotherapists at the Earth Spirit Centre in Somerset
MARCH 19th - APRIL 1st 2012. Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon.
with Hermione Elliott and Brian Graham.
As a counsellor or psychotherapist how confident do you feel about working with death, dying or bereavement?
This experiential and educational workshop offers an in-depth exploration of our relationship with death and dying both personal and professional in a supportive and nurturing environment. We will expand awareness, skills and confidence in the field of death and dying, to support clients who may be engaged with this in their lives, to assist loved ones, clients or their families during the process of dying. We bring death out from hiding and embrace it as an integral part of life.
Early Bird by January 17th 255 pounds, 285 pounds thereafter. Plus accommodation. Bookings: 01273 479114 or email office@livingwelldyingwell.net
PAST PARTICIPANTS HAVE SAID: "Excellent- created a particulaly safe space. Very balanced, inspiring and freeing day" KR, (Counsellor) "Very supportive and encouraging - inspirational people" JL, (Writer) "Very good - refreshing to engage with this subject in this mindful way" LA, (Counsellor) "A relief not to be talking 'about' death in an abstract way but experience our feelings about it instead|" RM, (Chaplain)
COURSE FACILITATORS
Brian Graham has been working in a therapeutic context for more than 30 years. He is currently a senior trainer both at the Psychosynthesis & Education Trust in London, and at the Psychosynthesis Institute in Gothenburg. He also works as a therapist and clinical supervisor in private practice, and as clinical supervisor for the Counselling Service team at Canterbury University in the UK. He co-leads a yearly Elders Gathering in Italy, exploring purpose, meaning and service in later stages of life. He is particularly interested in our relationship with life and death and the soul’s journey.
Hermione Elliott is a nurse, midwife, counsellor and trainer. She has been working in a health and therapeutic context for more than 40 years, supporting people to use illness as a means for personal transformation. She has specialised in palliative care, working with terminally ill people at home and in the hospice environment. She has taught the Fundamentals of Imagework in Britain and Japan since 1997. She is the founder of Living Well Dying Well and has pioneered the first Doula for the Dying training in the UK. She is passionate about supporting people practically, emotionally and spiritually at the end of life.