Practicing dying is an ancient practice to help prepare the living for our dying and death, while we are very much alive and well. Contemplative End of Life Care is a more contemporary practice that can be integrated into hospice and palliative care with remarkable results. Come learn some of the basic principles of the contemporary practice, consider how it is a greatly different approach to western psychotherapies use of grief and bereavement theory both pre and post mortem. Contemplative end of Life care is changing the way we experience dying and death, pain and suffering.
About the speaker
Michele Chaban MSW, RSW, PhD. began integrating CEOLC practices into palliative care over 22 years ago before mindfulness and mindfulness meditation was so well known in Toronto. Her first mentors were Sogyal Rinpoche, HH The Dalai Lama, Dr Herbert Benson ( Harvard Mind Body Institute). Michele introduced this practice to University Avenue and had some of the first mindfulness meditation groups at University of Toronto when she was the Director of the Psycho-social-spiritual team for Temmy Latner’s Center for Palliative Care.
Currently, Michele is the co-director of the Inter-professional Applied Mindfulness Meditation Certificate ( AMM-MIND) at University of Toronto, Factor-Inwentash School of Social Work. The AMM-MIND program has three streams of application : psychotherapy east and west, enabling learning or mindfulness in the educational system, and the mind at work or mindfulness in organizations. The AMM-MIND program draws upon the poly-scholarship of history, philosophy, the lineages of buddhism and science, humanities and social science, as well as the mindfulness methodologies and scientific protocols which provide the scaffolding of this ancient yet contemporary practice of mind.