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SUMMARY:Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living\, Conscious Dying – Presented by Dale Borglum\, [2 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]
DESCRIPTION:2 DAY SEMINAR: February 10 and 11\, 2024 \nNARRATIVE: \nFor thirty-five years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing –healing in relationship to death\, healing in relationship to illness\, in relationship to a wounded heart\, to separation from their own self. My consuming interest\, both personally and professionally\, has been the healing process. 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? I s 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? \nBringing 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 it’s woundedness\, it’s identification with separateness. Rumi said\, “Grief is the garden of compassion.” This transmuting separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion is the heart of the work. Confusion\, anxiety\, depression\, anger are typical responses arising as the end of a life approaches\, both for the patient and for their family. \nThis 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. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:   \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\n\n\nDescribe the defining characteristics of compassion.\nDistinguish between compassion and pity.\nFully understand the somatic foundation for being able to let go of identification with separateness.\nUnderstand how to transmute the separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion.\nBe familiar with several contemplative practices that will help a client transmute fear of dying into acceptance.\nSkillfully work with one’s own fear of death as it is resonated by the client’s situation.\nEnable one’s client to use the prognosis of a life-threatening illness as an opportunity to become more present and alive.\n\n\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE -TWO DAY WORKSHOP – 15 hrs. \nSchedule for Day One \n8:45 – 9:00AM \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:00AM     \nOverview of the healing paradigm: motivation\, invocation\, awareness\, grounding\, centering\, compassion\, empowerment\, wholeness. \n10:00 – 11:00AM   \nIntroduction of participants as an awareness exercise \n11:00 – 12:00PM   \nMotivation for healing. \nCultivating awareness of the emotional patterns which cause suffering. \nBecoming present in one’s body as the foundation for opening the heart of compassion. \n12:00 – 12:30PM \nGrounding and centering experiential exercises. \n12:30 – 1:30PM    \nLunch \n1:30 – 3:00PM \nCompassion \n\n\n\nDefinition of compassion and discussion of its qualities and benefits\nConnectedness\, spaciousness and warmth\nRelationship between compassion and appropriate boundaries\nHow compassion prevents burnout\n\n\n\n3:00 – 4:00PM \n“Grief is the garden of compassion” \n\n\n\nTransforming the separation of grief into the connectedness of compassion\nConscious grief work – We are all grieving\n\n\n\n4:00 – 5:00PM   \nGuided compassion meditation \n\n\n\nGroup exercise exploring compassion\n\n\n\n5:00 – 5:30PM    \nEmpowerment \n\n\n\nDefinition of empowerment\nHow the spacious mind of compassion leads to empowerment\nHow empowerment leads to healing\n\n\n\nSchedule for Day Two \n9:00 – 10:00AM   \nGuided meditation. Review of the healing paradigm. Q & A. \n10:00 – 11:00AM \nCaregiving \n\n\n\nCaregiving as psychological/spiritual work on oneself\nCaregiving for the dying\nSpecial practices to help heal fear of death\nFear of death – All fear is fear of death.\n\n\n\n 11:00 – 12:00PM   \nWorking with physical pain \n\n\n\nConfusion between pain and fear of pain\nPain meditation\n\n\n\n12:00 – 12:30PM \nForgiveness \n12:30 – 1:30PM \nLunch \n1:30 – 3:00PM      \nContemplative and experiential practices to transmute fear of death\, to cultivate the heart of compassion\, to accept loss of control. \n 3:00 – 4:00PM \nWhat is it that dies and what is it that does not die? \nWhat happens when you die? \nHow can the certainty of death yet the uncertainty of the time of our death lead to awakening rather than to fear? \n4:00 – 4:30PM  \nDiscussion of suicide and the right to die \n4:30 – 5:00PM  \n  Wholeness \n\n\n\nDefinition of Wholeness\nHealing as different from curing\nWholeness or healing as the goal of all practice\nHealing guided meditation\n\n\n\n5:00 – 5:30PM \nClosing and evaluation \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\n This program will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology by exploring the transpersonal\, the meditative\, and the spiritual components necessary for conscious death. We will explore how identification with ego structure and fear of death are intimately connected.\nThe aim of psychological practice traditionally is to create a healthier\, efficiently functioning mind and particularly a healthy ego structure. In the potentially profoundly transformative time at the end of life\, healing and understanding that transcend egoic concern are often more available than at any other time in a person’s life. The appreciation of this possibility is of central importance to those supporting clients who might be approaching death.\nThe target audience is clinical social workers\, marriage and family therapists\, psychologists and nurses were working with patients confronting a life-threatening illness\, their loved ones\, and those grieving. Instruction summarizes introductory and intermediate foundational concepts which then leads to advanced content for the majority of the workshop.\nThe materials presented during this workshop have been developed and utilized during 40 years of working directly with thousands of dying clients\, their families and their caregivers. As well these materials had been presented during trainings at hundreds of hospitals and hospices throughout North America. The efficacy of this content is limited by the willingness of the client to explore the possibility of deep transformation during a time of great crisis. The effects of opioid analgesic medication and also bodily symptoms that often accompany the end stages of terminal illness both can limit the transformative power of the materials presented. The only risk that has been encountered is that occasionally when a client is consciously working with her fear of death\, long repressed difficult emotions can burst forth in her physically weakened condition requiring great sensitivity on the part of the practitioner.\nBorglum spent years as a group facilitator at San Quentin Penitentiary and as an AIDS/HIV counselor at High General Hospital in Oakland. At both of these facilities there was a wide range of race\, sexual orientation\, and socioeconomic backgrounds represented. When supporting a client who is confronting a life-threatening illness\, conditioned emotional patterns inherent in different backgrounds and orientations often mask the deeper underlying fear of death. Cultivating deeper awareness and compassion through the lecture and experiential materials presented during this workshop will enable the participant to distinguish between cultural\, individual\, and role differences on the one hand\, and\, on the other\, inherent fear of death.\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nTwo Day Event (February 10 and February 11) – 15 CEs\, $290 \nYou may register online by visiting www.livingdying.org\, and clicking on Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living/Conscious Dying. You may also send a check or money order to Living/Dying Project at P.O. Box 357\, Fairfax\, CA 94978. With your payment please include your email address and if you wish C.E.’s include license number and degree.You may also register by phone: please call 415-456-3915.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/healing-at-the-edge-conscious-living-conscious-dying-presented-by-dale-borglum-2-day-workshop-co-sponsored/
LOCATION:Montague Hall\, 5 Richmond Row\, San Anselmo\, CA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored,Professional Development
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