Education
For Integrative palliative care education from an anthroposophical perspective on death and dying please see below a workshop program that has been delivered in 2023.
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Practical and spiritual aspects of dying and death care - a holistic palliative care workshop
This workshop considers death from a deeper aspect than is the norm today. The inner life of soul and spirit are explained in their role in this transition and in addition, the nursing care of the physical body is considered prior to and after death. We look also in a healthy way, at the possibility of accompanying the human being during this process while full consciousness is carried around the sacredness of this mysterious threshold. Our aim is to empower families and communities to take death care back into their own hands, highlighting the three-day, post-death care vigil in the home.
Presented by the Palliative Care Circle team members (see flyer and presenters below). Please subscribe to our newsletter for future palliative care workshop dates for 2024.
About the Presenters:
Dr Lisa Harris: Dr Lisa Harris is an integrative GP and Rural Generalist in Palliative Care. Dr Lisa’s GP practice and extra training in palliative care integrates her anthroposophical medical training. This integrative training combines physical medicine, functional and recuperative processes, emotional and sensory activities and spiritual and creative elements. Her palliative care work is in cooperation with the integrative team of practitioners and the Mid-North Coast palliative care service and is based in Coffs Harbour, NSW.
Lisa Devine: Ordained Priest of the Christian Community, Master of Psychology (Counselling).
Charlotte Rogers: Registered Nurse with a history of 30 years at Bellingen Hospital and Anthroposophical nurse consultant. Hauschka trained rhythmical massage therapist and Hauschka trained art therapist.
Beth Wrigley: Registered Nurse, Masters of Indigenous Studies (Trauma & Healing). Beth works facilitating groups in organisations, community and in undergraduate nursing & midwifery academic spaces using circle work and Indigenous pedagogy (healing and education) practices, with a focus on story, deep listening and creative and expressive processes. beth@ozemail.com.au
Wendy Harfield: Trauma therapist, Counsellor, Death Doula. Facilitator of Grief Tending Rituals. In Wendy’s counselling practice she works very deeply with individuals using image-work, inner journey and sensorimotor psychotherapy, assisting people to find where trauma sits in their body, how it impacts their life and facilitating them towards self- awareness and change. wharfield@hotmail.com