Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying [One Day Workshop]
– Presented by Dale Borglum, PhD [CO-SPONSORED]

Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death, while others lose themselves in denial, depression, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been, almost without exception, people near death? Is there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can receive from these few who, as they went through the process of dying, deeply realized their own wholeness?

Bringing emotional/spiritual support to someone with a life-threatening illness is a twofold task.  First, help the client realize they are more than that which will die – the finite self – the body and personality. At the same time, honor this finite self, healing its woundedness, its identification with separateness. Rumi said “Grief is the garden of compassion.” This transmuting separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion is that the heart of the work. Confusion, anxiety, depression, anger are typical responses arising as the end of a life approaches, both for patients and their families.

This presentation will explore possibilities for realizing wholeness at the edge of life where illness, grief, and loss arise. Both psychological and spiritual tools will be used in the investigation of these profound and challenging issues. We will offer participants the opportunity to explore the deeper questions surrounding death, healing, and the sacred, so that each of us can better embody an enlivened sense of being in the world in each moment rather than a sense of isolation and denial.

Dale Borglum, PhD, founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and, since 1986, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook. Dale gives workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, and spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford.

Option 1: Two Day Workshop

January 25 and 26, 2020 | 9:00 am – 5:30 pm

Location: 

Finley Center

2060 W. College Avenue

Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Cost:

$290 early registration, $310 on day of event

CEs: 16 CEs for LMFTs, LCSWs, and Psychologists. Certificates issued after completion of both sessions.

Option 2: Two Day Workshop

February 22 and 23, 2020 | 9:00 am – 5:30 pm

Location: 

The Women’s Building

3543 18th St #8

San Francisco, CA 94110        

Cost:

$290 early registration, $310 on day of event

CEs: 16 CEs for LMFTs, LCSWs, and Psychologists. Certificates issued after    completion of both sessions.

Option 3: One Day Workshop

February 8, 2020 | 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

Location:

San Francisco Theological Seminary

5 Richmond Road

San Anselmo, CA 94960

Cost:

$175 early registration, $195 on day of event           

CEs: 8 CEs for LMFTs, LCSWs, and Psychologists. Certificates issued after completion of full session.

Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Cancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee.

Accommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training.