Spiritual Considerations at End of Life

On September 30, 2009 I will represent the Buddhist perspective on a panel at Maine Hospice Education Day in Waterville, Maine. We hope the panel discussion will stimulate thoughts and ideas about various beliefs and tenets of the major spiritual traditions: Roman Catholic; Protestant; Buddhist; Jewish and Islam.
There will be workshops addressing issues such as dementia care, ALS, masculine grief, pediatric end of life, and Dr Thomas Keating's workshop on preparing for approaching death. Dr Keating is the Director of Palliative Care at the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine in Brunswick, Maine.
For more information and to register please go to: http://hvwa.org/hospiceday/course-description.pdf.

Hospice Retreat at Sugarloaf

The Maine Hospice Council and End of Life Care Retreat will be held at Sugarloaf USA on October30, 31 and November 1, 2009. The theme this year is Behind the Veil: Shining Light on Sensitive Matters. I will be presenting a workshop on Childrens Grief on Saturday in the morning and in the afternoon. Please go to http://www.mainehospicecouncil.org for further information and for registration. The retreat is appropriate for all health care professionals, hospice volunteers and social workers.

New Dream Group Forming

New Dream Group forming in Sopo

Third Monday evening of each month.

6:00 to 8:00

Beginning September 21, 2009

Facilitated by Deborah Pfeffer. Dreamwork will be based on the methods of Jeremy Taylor with whom Deborah has studied and also on the work of Carl Jung. If interested, we may look at the nature of the mind itself using Tibetan Dream Yoga and the phenomenology of imagination.

For more information email pipersails@gwi.net