A few years ago I completed the nine-month End of Life Practitioner Program with the Metta Institute in San Francisco. The intense experience helped me explore my relationship with living and dying and has since led to paid and volunteer work in hospice, seniors’,and integrated cancer care.
In the past, several colleagues expressed interest in the course, but were put off by the commitment to attend monthly workshops and retreats in California. Frank Ostaseski, the director of the program, just wrote to say it is now available in week-long modules. There are five such modules over two years, to be completed separately or combined for the Certificate.
Frank writes: The first 5-day course on Mindful & Compassionate Service points to a healthy, renewing and sustainable way for clinicians and other caregivers to work in the current environment. Our approach is mindfulness based, compassion focused, and relationship centered. Participants return with greater competency, and an ability to develop meaningful caregiver-patient relationships, and beneficial connections with peers. This leads to a workplace experience that is invigorating, rather than depleting.
The course is primarily aimed at health-care professionals — physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, psychotherapists, counselors, chaplains, social workers, physical therapists, massage therapists, experienced hospice volunteers, and others in the healing professions.
For full details on course contents, costs, faculty, and travel details, click here. The dates are Wednesday June 6 to Sunday June 10, 2012. The tuition $1,050. Register before May 1 to receive a one-time discount of $500.
That looks like a wonderful program Peter. Do you know of anything of that sort being offered in Australia at all?
thanks and hope you had a peaceful Easter there.