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A Conference for Both
Heart and Mind
This conference offers both inspiration and practical information
for being compassionately present to those coping with life-threatening
illness, death, and bereavement.
Whether your background is in hospice care, nursing, medicine,
psychology, chaplaincy, or other, this conference will help you
help others heal from grief and loss.
Through presentations and workshop sessions, the conference highlights
what we have learned about grief and healing from loss, and future
directions for improved end-of-life services. If you are interested
in the connection between healing and spirituality, come join us
for a remarkable day of learning, networking, inspiration, and strategies
for caregivers seeking to enhance their work in clinical settings.
Who Should Attend
The conference is intended for nurses, mental health workers,
social workers, hospice personnel, physicians, clergy, school counselors,
caregivers, and anyone else who deals with issues related to terminal
illness, death and grief.
Objectives
At the conference participants will:
- Learn how to identify the emotional needs of bereaved people.
- Learn how the body/mind deals with pain and suffering, especially
related to loss.
- Learn how to integrate emotional and spiritual approaches to
loss with methods from clinical psychology.
- Gain an understanding of the applications for music and humor
in healing from grief and how to use that understanding to assist
grieving clients.
Our vision is to give you a day of renewal, inspiration, new learning
and practical skills.
- Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., is a renowned bridge between science
and spirituality, whose gracious presence in itself is an authentic
transmission of healing. She will give practical tips on how to
be present to your own deepest wisdom and will leave you with
an important skill set, as well as a warm heart.
- Karen Drucker, whose music has the power to evoke laughter,
tears, and the kind “knowing” that parts the clouds
of fear, explores healing through her music and humor.
- A selection of four concurrent workshops that will expand
on the nature of healing, wholeness and consciousness itself,
integrating several approaches to dealing with profound change
and loss including methods from clinical psychology and medicine.
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Medical Scientist, Psychologist, Author, and Director of
the Claritas Institute InterSpiritual Mentor Training Program
Integrating Science and Spirit in
End-of-Life and Bereavement Care
Modern research on the remarkable faculties of mind, as well as
traditional spiritual teachings, tell us that we can learn to live
in each moment with a lightness of heart, faithfully oriented to
our deeper nature. Joan will share from her knowledge and her personal
experience about how we can draw on our innate strengths and resilience
when dealing with life’s inevitable challenges. She will guide
us to using our heads and our hearts in a way that has a scientific
basis and is beyond concept or dogma. How does inner insight support
clinical practice? How can we contact our wisdom moment by moment?
What are the attitudes and practices that align us with it? What
blocks it? How does one discern skillful practices from the habits
and patterns of the ego? Are we evolving in how we approach end-of-life
care, and if so, toward what? Come join Joan in an adventure of
exploration and homecoming.
Karen Drucker
Musician and Humorist, Founder: Artists for a Cause
Music and Humor for Grief Recovery and Healthy Living
Karen offers a multi-sensory experience exploring the impact of
music and humor on mental health and healing after loss. Music and
humor have been shown to affect each of our body systems, enhancing
our ability to deal with stress and bereavement. This presentation
will provide an experience of both music and humor and highlight
their psychological and physiological effects. It will demonstrate
therapeutic applications of music and humor for stress management,
and long-term health and wellness. For those interested in exploring
the exciting and growing body of evidence supporting the importance
of music and humor, this presentation will assist you and your clients
in achieving life-long benefits.
Agenda
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7:45
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Registration & Continental
Breakfast |
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8:30
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Welcome |
Jim Bronson |
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8:45
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Integrating Science and Spirit
in End-of-Life and Bereavement Care |
Dr. Joan Borysenko |
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10:15
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Break |
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10:45
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Music and Humor for Grief Recovery
and Healthy Living |
Karen Drucker
with Dr. Joan Borysenko |
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12:00
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Lunch |
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1:00
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Concurrent Workshops - Part 1
- The Psychology of Consciousness and Healing
- Clinical Applications for Energy Medicine
- Being Fully Present for Clients and Ourselves
- Effectively Handling the Stresses of Caregiving
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2:00
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Break |
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2:30
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Concurrent Workshops - Part 2
(TBA) |
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3:45
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Hot Issues - A Panel of Presenters
and Facilitators |
Dr. Joan Borysenko, Moderator |
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4:25
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Closing Remarks |
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4:30
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Conference Adjourns |
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Continuing Education
This conference has been approved for 6.0 hours of Continuing Education
Units (CEUs) for nurses by VAPA Nursing Education, CABORN Provider
#00299. This conference meets the qualifications for 6.0 hours of
CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral
Sciences. The BBS provider number is 618. The VA Palo Alto Health
Care System (VAPAHCS) is approved by the American Psychological
Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The
VA Palo Alto Health Care System maintains responsibility for the
program. This activity is offered for six (6) hours of CE credits.
Psychologists are responsible for reporting their own credits to
the MCEP Accreditation Agency and for remitting the course reporting
fee.
Conference Location
The conference will be held at the Conference Center at SRI, 333
Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA. The conference center is in the
International Building. The entrance to the parking lot is at the
corner of Middlefield Road and Ringwood Avenue. You then walk one
block to the International Building. Parking close to the building
is also available for those with limited mobility.
SRI Campus
Map
Directions
From Highway 101, take the Willow Road exit and go west
toward Menlo Park. After about 1 mile, turn right onto Middlefield
Road. At the 1st traffic light, turn left onto Ringwood Avenue.
The entrance to the conference parking lot will be on your right.
From Highway 280, take the Sand Hill Road exit and go
east toward Menlo Park. Go about 3 miles and turn left onto El
Camino Real. At the 4th traffic light, turn right onto Ravenswood
Road. Proceed past the main entrance to SRI and turn right on
Middlefield Road, then right onto Ringwood Avenue. The entrance
to the conference parking lot will be on your right.
Registration: Pre-registration deadline is
April 28, 2008.
Registration Fee (includes continental breakfast and lunch):
THROUGH April 28th
General Admission $125
VA Staff & Kara Volunteers $95
Students and Seniors (65 and older) $65
AFTER April 28th
General Admission $150
VA Staff & Kara Volunteers $115
Students and Seniors (65 and older)
AFTER May 7: call Kara office at 650-321-5272
Refund Policy:
Registration fees for canceled registrations will be refunded
if the cancellation is received by April 28th. No refunds will
be issued after that date.
Contact
Us
457 Kingsley Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
650-321-5272
Office hours are M-F, 9AM to 4PM Pacific time.
Here is a map
to our office.
Kara is the Gothic root of the word "care."
It means to reach out, to care, to lament, to grieve with.
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