HANDS ON work with people in states of altered consciousness including: metabolic coma and delirium near death; those in end stage dementia; also those with traumatic brain injury, stroke, and drug overdose.

COUNSELLING families of those in coma and dementia and people formerly in altered consciousness and coma.

FACULTY with the Sacred Art of Living Center and the Anamcara Project. 
Teaching: "Coma Communication Therapy; Healing the Unconscious" in Oregon, California, and Ohio.

FACULTY (Stan) with the Process Work Institute Graduate School in Portland, Oregon. Instructing: "Sacred Depths" for caregivers and family who tend people with memory loss, dementia, traumatic brain injury, coma, and near death states.

ComaCARE, Consultants and Directors, Cape Town, South Africa.

PRESENTATION of workshops, seminars, and inservices across North America to nurses, care aids, volunteers, social workers, clergy, body workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, counsellors, psychologists, physicians, teachers, and families. 

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BC Hospice Palliative Care Association Conference, Surrey BC, “Sacred Depths: The Dreaming of Dementias and Caregiver Comfort with Far Away States”

Catholic Community Care, Cleveland OH, "Compassionate Communication with those in Altered Consciousness"

Home Care Association of Washington, Edmonds WA, "Coma Communication: Allaying Agitation; Enhancing Decision Making"

Alzheimer's Association and Hospice of Bend La-Pine, Bend Oregon. Co-presented with Joanne Rader, RN, MN, FAAN, and Lori Linton Nelson, RN, MN, PMHNP, “Beyond Words: Compassionate Communication with People with Dementia or in Coma States”

Carrboro NC, Waldport OR, Portland OR, Calgary AB, Victoria BC, Pleasant Hill TN. “Coma Communications”

FJC Christian Life Centre, Calgary AB. “Relating to People in Remote States”

Five Seattle Hospices, Volunteer Celebration Day training, Seattle WA. “Coma Communications” 

Great Lakes Hospice, Northbrook IL. “Palliative Care and Altered States” 

Lions Gate Hospice, North Vancouver BC. White Rock Hospice, White Rock BC. Shuswap Hospice, Salmon Arm BC. Port Alberni Hospice, BC. “Coma and Remote States”

Fourth Canadian Palliative Care Conference, Vancouver BC. “Coma and Remote State Work”

Lutheran General Hospital, Department of Pastoral Care, Park Ridge IL. “Relating to Patients in Coma and Remote States”

Gerontological Nurses Conference, Victoria BC. “Relating to People in Remote States”

Victoria BC. “The Long Goodbye” and “Untangling Alzheimer's: People in Special States”

Brandel Care Center and Covenant Home, Northbrook IL. “Communicating with Residents in States of Confusion” and “Symbolic Language and Dementia”

Rest Haven Lodge, Sidney BC. “Remote States of Consciousness”

Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health, Victoria BC. “Extremely Challenged Children”

Glendale Lodge for the Severely Physically and Mentally Handicapped, Victoria BC. “Psychological Interventions in Extreme Altered States”

Lake County Association for the Retarded, Gary IN. “Extreme and Withdrawn States”

Vancouver Island Head Injury Society, Duncan BC. “Traumatic Brain Injury Work”

Salt Spring Secondary School, Ganges BC. “Working with Traumatic Brain Injury”

Cook County Hospital, Chicago IL. “Traumatic Brain Injury and Remote States”

For more information contact:

Stan Tomandl, MA, PWD ~ Ann Jacob, BA Ed
COMA COMMUNICATION ~ PROCESS ORIENTED FACILITATION
#502--620 View Street, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1J6
1.250.383.5677     annstan@islandnet.com     www.comacommunication.com