Sustaining Compassion – Practical Considerations for Health Care Professionals

Next Date TBD

The Workshop
Compassionate care for the dying and the medically fragile creates a spacious environment that allows us to be truly awake to life.  However, this wakefulness calls us to lean into suffering and invites us to experience the discomfort associated with loss and grief.  As caregivers we are invited to listen deeply and to be genuinely present to the self, the patient, their families, and their community.
This interactive workshop will explore how our approach to suffering shapes compassionate care.  We will explore very practical strategies for touching into the grief born from loss and, in turn, to deepen our capacity for compassion.

Eight (8) CEUs available for Nursing and Social Work.

$40 registration fee – breakfast and lunch included.

Participation is limited – please register early, either on-line at the CCALS website or by calling the CCALS office at 508.444.6775

Workshop Facilitators
Ron Hoffman co-founded Compassionate Care ALS in 1998 and has served as Executive Director ever since. As such he deals regularly with end of life care, including needs evaluation and instruction on ALS disease progression. He facilitates and guides intimate discussions with ALS patients and their families who are nearing death or actively dying around the process of death and dying and the questions that arise, helps them examine their choices, and creates space for dialogue around their beliefs and decisions.

John Sheeran has been engaged in end-of-life care since 1988 in a variety of roles. John directly supported persons living with life-limiting illness through his work in the field of HIV/AIDS in New York and in a leadership role as CEO of Tuesday’s Child, a non-profit service organization, with a presence in Los Angeles, CA, Boston, MA, and Washington, DC.  For the past 5 years, John has provided spiritual care with the Patients, Families, and Staff of Hospice programs in Southeastern MA as a Chaplain.