Professional Training
“It is all about life. We are just at different junctures along the same road.”
Amy Levine, Keynote, CapitalCare People & Progress Conference
Customized, Interactive Workshops, Talks, Programs
Stress Busters: On the Job Tools. Finding our balance in the midst of multi-tasking is a skill. Find the calm within takes practice. All you need is a minute to recalibrate. Participants will learn stress management strategies to include mindfulness, and quick and easy techniques that can be used anytime and anywhere.
Mindfulness For Difficult Conversations: As Illness Progresses. Find your style. Mindfulness deepens our self awareness. Self awareness leads to identifying the challenges we experience when engaging in challenging conversations with a patient or client facing serious illness. Participants will learn engagement techniques and language to open up communication.
Loneliness: Connection and Belonging: Serious illness can be isolating, breaking the bonds of connection and our sense of belonging. We all want to be seen, known and heard at all stages of our lives. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the psychosocial impact of serious illness and ways to make a difference in the lives of individuals experiencing loneliness.
Advance Care Planning Overview. What is it? Beginning conversations for advance care planning at all ages ensures wishes will be heard and observed. Participants will be provided communication skills to open these conversations and deeper understanding of the components of advance care planning.
Companioning: When Words are Absent. Visiting someone who is no longer verbal can feel awkward for many people. Increase your comfort level. Participants will be provided the skills that can foster connection with an individual at this end stage of illness.
Homecare Staff Challenges:
A. “ What to do when food isn’t the answer” Ways to support patients at the end of life when refusing food. Deepening an understanding of end stage of life
B. “My patient died” Acknowledging grief and honoring relationships.
Customized programs available for the private sector