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LOVED ONES & MEMORY LOSS:
MEMORY CARE SKILLS FOR THOSE
WE LOVE AND GIVE CARE TO
A one day workshop ~ Victoria BC Canada
with Ann Jacob & Stan Tomandl
Date: Saturday June 20, 2009 in Victoria BC
Time: 9:30am-3:30pm
Cost: $95
$75 for Volunteers & Students
**Course includes a copy of the recently released book:
An Alzheimer's Surprise Party:
New sentient communication skills
for relating to people with dementia by Stan Tomandl & Tom Richards
Information: www.comacommunication.com
Registration and inquiries:
250.383.5677 or annstan@comacommunication.com
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We currently offer training in these areas:
Coma Communication Training
Sacred Portals ~ Living, Dying,
Grief, Dementia, Memory Loss, Delirium, Coma
Alzheimer's and Family Life
Formats...
Private bedside training sessions with clients and families
One hour phone consultation sessions ~ with or without video analysis
One half day to three day workshops for care facilities and organisations
Keynote speakers
2007-2008-2009 Training Schedule...
Stan Tomandl and Ann Jacob PROCESS WORK offerings
PRIVATE COUNSELLING PRACTICE: ongoing
Working one to one, with
couples and families, using the practice of deep democracy: caring for
the wholeness and sustainability of our inner and outer lives as well
as for the wellbeing of our society and planet.
In our sessions with
people we explore and unfold and find meaning in the events that
come to our lives: joyous moments, creativity, dreams,
relationships, somatic body symptoms, illness, grief, trauma,
addiction, anger, brain injury, autism, aging, memory loss, remote
states of consciousness, coma: the many tender and strong moments
throughout our living and dying.
We are seasoned counsellors,
each with 25 years of working with people. We have a personal
commitment to our own ongoing supervision and personal therapy sessions
so, that we are always opening to and addressing transformative issues
that are in our own lives. Our ongoing training is part of our
commitment to you.
We are students, teachers, mentors, and
colleagues with the Process Work Institute and are privileged to have
Arny Mindell as our therapist/supervisor for nearly 20 years. To find
out more about Process Oriented Work and Amy and Arny Mindell please
check out their website: www.aamindell.net
PLEASE CALL US with your questions. We offer a free initial meeting session.
250.383.5677 sliding scale
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PHONE COUNSELLING AND CONSULTING: ongoing
It is wonderful how the phone can bridge the distance between us all.
We work with folks in various places at a distance and find the work to
be intimate, deep and rewarding.
Phone
sessions for Individual counselling, professional client consultations,
supervision, family emergency work.
1.250.383.5677
WORKSHOPS ~ ongoing
ONE DAY TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Dates: to be arranged
Communicating with those in Far Away States of Consciousness
The Spiritual Process of Aging
Memory Loss of the Ones We Love and Care For
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VICTORIA CLASSES ~ ongoing ~ 2008 & 2009
Wednesdays 5-7pm contact us for more info on our classes here in Victoria BC
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TRAINING AND TELEPHONE CONFERENCES CLASSES THROUGH THE
PROCESS WORK INSTITUTE
Portland Oregon US
SACRED ESSENCE: CASE CONSULTATION FOR CAREGIVERS
Stan Tomandl, MA, PWD & Ann Jacob, B.Ed
Dates: Tuesdays, January 13, February 10, March 10, 12:00 ~ 2:00 pm Pacific time
Cost: $100 before January 6; $120 thereafter
*** For individual classes: Inquire at 503.223.8188 ***
Registration: Process Work Institute 503.503.223.8188
For more information contact: Ann or Stan at 250.383.5677 or annstan@comacommunication.com
This case consultation class will focus on finding solutions to
patients' problems, caregiving dilemmas, and caregiver care. We will
also practice techniques to bring awareness and meaning to clients in
unusual states of consciousness, provide methods to unfold and gain new
insight from these states, and tie these insights to daily life,
relationships, and community. For nurses, chaplains, social workers,
physicians, and other professional, family, and volunteer caregivers
that work with people in states of memory loss, dementia, delirium,
autism, depression, traumatic brain injury, vegetative state, and coma.
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DEEP INNER STATES AWARENESS: Graduate Certificate in Lifework and End
of Lifework for Professional, Volunteer and Family Caregivers
Process Work Institute Portland Oregon
Dates & Times: Friday, June 26, 6:00 – 9:00 pm, Saturday, June
27 and Sunday, June 28, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, and Monday, June 29, 9:00 –
2:00 pm, 2009
Cost:: $520US before June 12; $580US thereafter.
Information: 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work
Institute 1.503.223.8188 pwi@processwork.org
Trainers: Dr. Pierre Morin, Gary Reiss, Ph.D.,
Ingrid Rose, Ph.D.,
Stan Tomandl, M.P.W., and Ann Jacob, BEd.
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EVENTS IN CANADA
LOVED ONES & MEMORY LOSS:
MEMORY CARE SKILLS FOR THOSE
WE LOVE AND GIVE CARE TO
A one day workshop ~ Victoria BC Canada
with Ann Jacob & Stan Tomandl
Date: Saturday June 20, 2009 in Victoria BC
Time: 9:30am-3:30pm
Cost: $95
$75 for Volunteers & Students
**Course includes a copy of the recently released book:
An Alzheimer's Surprise Party:
sentient communication
with dementia by Stan Tomandl & Tom Richards
Information: www.comacommunication.com
Registration and inquiries:
250.383.5677 or annstan@comacommunication.com
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COWICHAN VALLEY HOSPICE
COMA COMMUNICATION:
RELATING TO LOVED ONES AND CLIENTS IN FAR AWAY STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a half day workshop offered In Duncan BC
DATE: Saturday March 3, 2008
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Cost: No charge for hospice volunteers
Coma Work and Palliative Care Manual included
Information & Registration:
Kathy Skovgaard <tgf.cvhs@shaw.ca>
Near end of life and in states of
altered consciousness, patients’ greatest fear is not necessarily
death, but of being left alone and confused with insufficient awareness
of themselves and others. ~ We will present Process Work techniques, as
developed by our mentors Drs. Amy and Arny Mindell, that are specially
designed to work when familiar forms of communication are lacking: when
people are no longer verbal, or are lost internally, or are loud,
agitated, or stubborn; whether in states of dementia, delirium, autism, traumatic brain injury, or coma.
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CHURCH OF TRUTH ~ Community of Conscious Living
YOUR HEALING PRESENCE ~ HEALING NATURE
morning worship meditation and message in Victoria BC
DATE: Sunday March 30, 2008
Time: 10-11am
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BESSIE DANE HOSPICE
ALZHEIMER & COMA COMMUNICATION:
RELATING TO LOVED ONES AND CLIENTS IN FAR AWAY STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a one day workshop offered On Saltspring Island BC
DATE: Saturday May 3, 2008
Time: 10-4:30
Cost: $25
Coma Work and Palliative Care Manual included
Information & Registration:
Leave a message for Pat at
Bessie Dane Hospice 250.537.2770
Near end of life and in states of
altered consciousness, patients’ greatest fear is not necessarily
death, but of being left alone and confused with insufficient awareness
of themselves and others. ~ We will present Process Work techniques, as
developed by our mentors Drs. Amy and Arny Mindell, that are specially
designed to work when familiar forms of communication are lacking: when
people are no longer verbal, or are lost internally, or are loud,
agitated, or stubborn; whether in states of dementia, delirium, autism, traumatic brain injury, or coma.
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TRAINING AND TELEPHONE CONFERENCES CLASSES THROUGH THE
PROCESS WORK INSTITUTE
Portland Oregon US
NAVIGATING SACRED RIVERS: Case Consultation for Students and Caregivers of People in Altered States of Consciousness
teleconference class
Date: Tuesdays, January 8, February 12, March 11, & April 15, 2008
Time: 5-7pm Pacific Time
Cost: $120US before January 2; $135US thereafter
Information/questions call us: 250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work Institute, Portland Oregon 1.503.223.8188
We will follow the flow of clients'
signals and our reactions, as a way of deepening clients'
communication. We will further awareness and meaning for clients in
nonordinary states of consciousness, provide methods to unfold new
insight from these states, and tie insights to daily life,
relationships, and community. ~For hospice staff, students, care aides, nurses, chaplains, social workers,
physicians, and volunteer caregivers; tending people in states of
forgetfulness, delirium, dementia, depression, traumatic brain injury,
vegetative state , and coma.
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END OF LIFE CARE AND DRUG QUESTIONS: How can End of Life Drug Care Help and Hinder Patients, Staff, and Families?
Process Work Institute Portland Oregon
Date: Saturday April 26, 2008
Time: 10am-5pm
Cost:: $90US before April 6; $100US thereafter.
Information: 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work
Institute 1.503.223.8188 pwi@processwork.org
Unfolding the doctrine of double effect for medications and
double stated ethics of Coma Work: Pain medication and psychoactive
drugs are used widely on palliative care patients in North America.
When and how do drugs ease suffering? When and how do they exacerbate
suffering? Exploring total pain: physical, emotional, psycho-social,
spiritual. ~ For hospice staff, students, care aides, nurses,
chaplains, social workers,
physicians, and volunteer caregivers; tending people in states of
forgetfulness, delirium, dementia, depression, traumatic brain injury,
vegetative state , and coma.
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EVENTS THROUGH: THE SACRED ART OF LIVING & DYING
CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION ~ CEU credits available ~
SACRED ART OF LIVING AND DYING, UNIT 3: HEALING SPIRITUAL PAIN ~
COMA COMMUNICATION THERAPY with Stan Tomandl & Ann Jacob
Coma Communication Therapy is based on the sensory grounded tools
developed by Amy and Arny Mindell providing access to the deepest and
farthest away states of those we are caring for. This work is relieving
and growth promoting for everyone involved.
The Sacred Art of Living and Dying program series mirrors one of
the important roles of the Anamcara ( "spiritual midwife" to the dying)
especially with respect to spiritual pain. As human beings face the
journey towards final release, there are opportunities for growth,
relationship, and spiritual connection that often present as patterns
of emotional/spiritual distress. There are concrete, well demonstrated
ways of alleviating this pain. The premise of the program is that all
spiritual pain is ultimately related to the processes of forgiveness,
meaning, relatedness, and hope.
Anyone, regardless of profession, spiritual background, or
previous experience is welcome to participate in the core study units
offered through the Sacred Art of Living and Dying series. For persons
called to support others on their spiritual journey at the end of life,
two additional levels of training and supervision invite persons to
become Anamcara end of life practitioners. All levels of the Sacred Art
of Living and Dying series teach practical skills based on the time
tested lessons of history and the science of modern research, applied
practically to today’s participants and needs.
The Sacred Art of Living and Dying is based on the ancient wisdom
of leaning into the pain to find transformation, and it is the dying
who become our teachers at the end of life.
Dates for Unit 3 program including Coma Communication Therapy
component:
May 19, 2007 ~~ Tokyo, Japan
October 5-6, 2007 ~~ Cleveland, OH
November 9-10, 2007 ~~ Redmond, OR
September 26-27, 2008 ~~ San Diego Hospice
October 13-14,
2008 ~~ Redmond, OR
February 13-14, 2009 ~~ Richland, WA
March 16-17, 2009 ~~ Santa Barbara, CA
April 17-18, 2009 ~~ Huron, OH
October 2-3, 2009 ~~ Redmond, OR
November 20-21, 2009 ~~ Wickliffe, OH
Information: Ann and Stan 1.250.383.5677 annstan@comacommunication.com
Registration: Sacred Art of
Living & Dying Center 1-888-383-4171
info@sacredartofliving.org http://www.sacredartofliving.com/
ANAMCARA PROJECT (Registration Closed for 2006-2008 Program)
Module 3: Tools for Healing Spiritual Pain ~ Coma Communication Therapy
Keynote Speakers: Ann & Stan August 20-24, 2007 Redmond OR
Information: Ann and Stan 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Registration: Sacred
Art of Living & Dying Center 1-888-383-4171
info@sacredartofliving.org http://www.sacredartofliving.com/
"Die before you die, so that when you die, you will not have to die." ~ Qur'an
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2007 OFFERINGS
BRITISH COLUMBIA HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION
Annual Conference, May 25, 2007 Surrey BC
Presenting: DELIRIUM: A SACRED PORTAL: Navigating the Rapids during Health Trauma and End of Life
Contact: BCHPCA at 1-877-422-4722 bchpca@cheos.ubc.ca http://www.hospicebc.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CAPITAL UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
LOVE - COMA COMMUNICATION AND AWARENESS AS A SACRED TRUST
June 10, 2007 Victoria BC
It is an honour for us to be included in your gathering this morning.
We are so grateful to the first peoples whose land we are privileged to be living on.
How many of you have had moments when you felt isolated and alone with
something and yearned for someone to truly SEE you and your need, and
yet you felt too inside yourself - to bereft or too shy or too much in
shock or grief to reach out for a friend? Has that happened to
anyone beside me?
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COMOX VALLEY HOSPICE
SACRED DEPTHS
Communication, Love, and Awareness: with the ones we care for, who are
in states of altered consciousness from illness, accident, dementia,
coma, & end of life
October 19-20, 2007 Courtenay BC
Introductory Evening:
Friday, October 19, 2007, 7-9pm, $10
Workshop: Saturday, October 20, 2007, 10am-4:30pm, $95;
Volunteers & Students $75
Coma Work and Palliative Care Manual included on Saturday
Information & Registration: Alison Fox 250.337.1780 noon-9pm or alisonfox2003@yahoo.com
Near end of life and in states of altered consciousness,
patients’ greatest fear is not necessarily death, but of being
left alone and confused with insufficient awareness of themselves and
others. Alzheimer’s/dementia, delirium, depression, autism,
coma, vegetative state, traumatic brain injury, besides bringing
difficulty and grief, are times for special communication techniques
furthering patients’ inner work and their meaningful experiences.
We will present Process Work techniques, as developed by our mentors
Drs. Amy and Arny Mindell, that are specially designed to work when
familiar forms of communication are lacking: when people are no longer
verbal, or are lost internally, or are loud, agitated, or stubborn.
This training can bring relief to staff and family by: teaching skills
to pass to family and friends; easing trauma around ethical decisions
by obtaining patients’ input, even when delirious or comatose;
and by facilitating patients‘ relationships and spiritual
connections.
WORKSHOP BENEFITS:
1. Establish easier access to your own centred presence in trying situations;
2. Identify sensory grounded cues & blank access
interventions to deepen
communication;
3. Connect through Pacing the Breath & establish binary (yes/no) communication.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Staff from hospices
& care homes; students; volunteers; psycho-social workers; body
workers; dementia & head injury caregivers, home care workers,
spiritual caregivers, & family.
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TAPPING THE BONES: a class series ~
Victoria BC
Dates: Wednesdays: November 14, 21, 28, 2007
Time: 5-7pm
Cost: Drop In: $35/session. All three classes: $90
Details & Registration in advance: 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Finding and following nature spirits, “no mind”, and
creative musing that call us on our personal, relationship,
and professional journeys. Using creative expression, shamanism, the
dreaming earth, Process DreamBody Work, Zen, and ourselves individually
and together to tap into the deepest enduring parts of ourselves: the bones.
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CANADIAN HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION
Hospice Palliative Care: At a Crossroads ~ Annual Conference, November 4-7, 2007, Toronto, ON
Presenting:
COMA COMMUNICATION: Ethics and Enhancing Patient and Family Decision Making during Altered Consciousness;
DELIRIUM, A SACRED PORTAL: Navigating the Rapids during Health Trauma and End of Life;
AN ALZHEIMER'S SURPRISE PARTY: New Communication Skills for Understanding and Relating to People with Dementia; sponsored by Dignity Memorial
COMA AND REMOTE STATE DIRECTIVE: A Living Will.
Contact: CHPCA at 1-800-203-4636 info@chpca.net http://conference.chpca.net/
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ALZHEIMER'S & FAMILY LIFE:
MEMORY CARE SKILLS FOR THOSE WE GIVE CARE TO AND LOVE
a one day workshop offered in Victoria BC
Date: Saturday November 24, 2007
Cost: $95
Volunteers & Students: $75
Details & Registration in advance: 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Attend
to learn more about those we care for and more about ourselves and
society’s attitudes toward memory. Workshop text:
newly published An Alzheimer's Surprise Party by Stan
Tomandl and Tom Richards
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WORKSHOPS AND TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CLASSES
through the PROCESS WORK INSTITUTE winter & spring 2007
SACRED PORTALS I: NAVIGATING THE RAPIDS:
DELIRIUM DURING HEALTH TRAUMA AND END OF LIFE
teleconference class
Date: Thursdays, January 11, 18, 25, 2007
Time: 10am-12noon Pacific Standard Time
Cost: $95US before January 4; $105US thereafter
(add $20 for CEU credit)
Information/questions call us: 250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work Institute, Portland Oregon 1.503.223.8188
The watery thin places between the worlds including delirium,
confusion, forgetfulness, perseveration, stupor, depression, agitation,
and “impossible” situations: provide entry points, portals,
to realms of altered consciousness, opening opportunities for insight,
soul healing, spiritual connection & renewal, relationship
transformation, and personal growth. This class will present bedside
techniques for chaplains, nurses, social workers, physicians, and other
professional, family, and volunteer caregivers that work with those in
states of memory loss, dementia, traumatic brain injury, vegetative
state, and coma.
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SACRED PORTALS II: CASE CONSULTATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE:
SOUL PAIN, AGITATION, AGGRESSION, HALLUCINATIONS, WANDERING,
ESTRANGEMENT, & STAFF DISTRESS
telephone conference class
Date: Thursdays, March 22, April 26, May 24, 2007
Time: 10am-12noon Pacific Standard Time
Cost:: $95US before March 15; $105US thereafter
(add $20 for CEU credit)
Information/questions call us: 250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work Institute,
Portland Oregon
1.503.223.8188 pwi@processwork.org
An opportunity to focus on patients’ problems, caregiving
dilemmas, and caregiver care. We will also practice techniques to bring
awareness and meaning to clients in unusual states of consciousness,
provide methods to unfold and gain new insight from these states, and
tie these insights to daily life, relationships, and community life.
For nurses, chaplains, social workers, physicians, and other
professional, family, and volunteer caregivers that work with people in
states of memory loss, dementia, depression, traumatic brain injury,
vegetative state, and coma.
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DEPRESSION & AGGRESSION: Finding Guidelines in the Wilderness for People in
Delirium & Dementia
teleconference class
Date: Tuesdays, September 18, 25, October 9, 16, 2007
Time: 5-7pm Pacific Time
Cost: $120US before September 11; $135US thereafter
Information/questions call us: 250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work Institute, Portland Oregon 1.503.223.8188
When people encounter "wilderness"
and are lost, they want guides. Learn how to help connect people with
their inner guides, so they can journey with more meaning and less
disruption to themselves and others. The way out is the way through. ~
For hospice staff, students, care aides, nurses, chaplains, social
workers, physicians, and volunteer caregivers; tending people in states
of forgetfulness, delirium, dementia, depression, traumatic brain
injury, vegetative state , and coma.
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COMA WORK, ETHICS, AND DRUG LEVELS NEAR DEATH
Process Work Institute Portland Oregon
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Date: Wednesday March 28, 2007
Cost: Free Brown Bag Lunch Series (no CEU credit)
Registration: Just drop by at 2049 NW Hoyt, Portland OR USA
Are palliative and nursing home patients being
“snowed” too often with too high doses of psychoactive and
pain relief medication? What are reasonable alternatives to drugs
for working with patients’ and families’ soul suffering end
of life processes? How do we as caregivers and family advocate for more
awareness with staff and administration, when we feel lower drug levels
would be the first step toward relieving soul pain and facilitating a
good death?
What we term the “double state ethic” is supportive,
life affirming eldership of all of patients’ wishes; wishes from
normal consensus reality states of consciousness, such as expressed by
living wills and advance directives, and wishes expressed from within
states of altered consciousness.
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COMA WORK, AWARENESS, AND LOVE
Process Work Institute Portland Oregon
Date: Saturday April 14, 2007
Time: 10am-5pm
Cost:: $110US before April 6; $120US thereafter.
Add $20 for CEU credit, CCE credit applied for
Tuition includes: Coma Work and Palliative Care Manual by Stan Tomandl
Information: Stan Tomandl 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work
Institute 1.503.223.8188 pwi@processwork.org
Training for hospice, care home, home care, and hospital
personal, volunteers, family members, and students. Most people in coma
and other minimally conscious states fear isolation and lack of
awareness even more than death. Learn sensory grounded techniques to
help those with brain trauma, advanced dementia, and metabolic coma
near death. Coma Work techniques can help people with: personality
transformation; completing unfinished business; harvesting life
experience; relating to loved ones; forming spiritual connection; and
making life and death decisions.
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Click here to view our 2006 offerings.
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For more information contact:
Stan Tomandl, MA, PWD ~ Ann Jacob, B.Ed
COMA COMMUNICATION ~ PROCESS ORIENTED FACILITATION
#502--620 View Street, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1J6
1.250.383.5677
annstan(at)comacommunication.com
www.comacommunication.com
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
ONE DAY TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Dates: to be arranged
Communicating with those in Far Away States of Consciousness
The Spiritual Process of Aging
Memory Loss of the Ones We Love and Care For
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ONGOING CLASSES ~ FALL AND WINTER 2008 & 2009 ~ Wednesdays 5-7pm
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EVENTS IN CANADA
BRITISH COLUMBIA HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION
Annual Conference, May 25, 2007 Surrey BC
Presenting: DELIRIUM: A SACRED PORTAL: Navigating the Rapids during Health Trauma and End of Life
Contact: BCHPCA at 1-877-422-4722 bchpca@cheos.ubc.ca http://www.hospicebc.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CAPITAL UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
LOVE - COMA COMMUNICATION AND AWARENESS AS A SACRED TRUST
June 10, 2007 Victoria BC
It is an honour for us to be included in your gathering this morning.
We are so grateful to the first peoples whose land we are privileged to be living on.
How many of you have had moments when you felt isolated and alone with
something and yearned for someone to truly SEE you and your need, and
yet you felt too inside yourself - to bereft or too shy or too much in
shock or grief to reach out for a friend? Has that happened to
anyone beside me?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COMOX VALLEY HOSPICE
SACRED DEPTHS
Communication, Love, and Awareness: with the ones we care for, who are
in states of altered consciousness from illness, accident, dementia,
coma, & end of life
October 19-20, 2007 Courtenay BC
Introductory Evening:
Friday, October 19, 2007, 7-9pm, $10
Workshop: Saturday, October 20, 2007, 10am-4:30pm, $95;
Volunteers & Students $75
Coma Work and Palliative Care Manual included on Saturday
Information & Registration: Alison Fox 250.337.1780 noon-9pm or alisonfox2003@yahoo.com
Near end of life and in states of altered consciousness,
patients’ greatest fear is not necessarily death, but of being
left alone and confused with insufficient awareness of themselves and
others. Alzheimer’s/dementia, delirium, depression, autism,
coma, vegetative state, traumatic brain injury, besides bringing
difficulty and grief, are times for special communication techniques
furthering patients’ inner work and their meaningful experiences.
We will present Process Work techniques, as developed by our mentors
Drs. Amy and Arny Mindell, that are specially designed to work when
familiar forms of communication are lacking: when people are no longer
verbal, or are lost internally, or are loud, agitated, or stubborn.
This training can bring relief to staff and family by: teaching skills
to pass to family and friends; easing trauma around ethical decisions
by obtaining patients’ input, even when delirious or comatose;
and by facilitating patients‘ relationships and spiritual
connections.
WORKSHOP BENEFITS:
1. Establish easier access to your own centred presence in trying situations;
2. Identify sensory grounded cues & blank access
interventions to deepen
communication;
3. Connect through Pacing the Breath & establish binary (yes/no) communication.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Staff from hospices
& care homes; students; volunteers; psycho-social workers; body
workers; dementia & head injury caregivers, home care workers,
spiritual caregivers, & family.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TAPPING THE BONES: a class series ~
Victoria BC
Dates: Wednesdays: November 14, 21, 28, 2007
Time: 5-7pm
Cost: Drop In: $35/session. All three classes: $90
Details & Registration in advance: 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Finding and following nature spirits, “no mind”, and
creative musing that call us on our personal, relationship,
and professional journeys. Using creative expression, shamanism, the
dreaming earth, Process DreamBody Work, Zen, and ourselves individually
and together to tap into the deepest enduring parts of ourselves: the bones.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CANADIAN HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION
Hospice Palliative Care: At a Crossroads ~ Annual Conference, November 4-7, 2007, Toronto, ON
Presenting:
COMA COMMUNICATION: Ethics and Enhancing Patient and Family Decision Making during Altered Consciousness;
DELIRIUM, A SACRED PORTAL: Navigating the Rapids during Health Trauma and End of Life;
AN ALZHEIMER'S SURPRISE PARTY: New Communication Skills for Understanding and Relating to People with Dementia; sponsored by Dignity Memorial
COMA AND REMOTE STATE DIRECTIVE: A Living Will.
Contact: CHPCA at 1-800-203-4636 info@chpca.net http://conference.chpca.net/
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ALZHEIMER'S & FAMILY LIFE:
MEMORY CARE SKILLS FOR THOSE WE GIVE CARE TO AND LOVE
a one day workshop offered in Victoria BC
NEW DATE: Saturday November 24, 2007
Cost: $95
Volunteers & Students: $75
Details & Registration in advance: 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Attend
to learn more about those we care for and more about ourselves and
society’s attitudes toward memory. Workshop text:
newly published An Alzheimer's Surprise Party by Stan
Tomandl and Tom Richards
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COWICHAN VALLEY HOSPICE
COMA COMMUNICATION:
RELATING TO LOVED ONES AND CLIENTS IN FAR AWAY STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a half day workshop offered In Duncan BC
DATE: Saturday March 3, 2008
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Cost: No charge for hospice volunteers
Coma Work and Palliative Care Manual included
Information & Registration:
Kathy Skovgaard <tgf.cvhs@shaw.ca>
Near end of life and in states of
altered consciousness, patients’ greatest fear is not necessarily
death, but of being left alone and confused with insufficient awareness
of themselves and others. ~ We will present Process Work techniques, as
developed by our mentors Drs. Amy and Arny Mindell, that are specially
designed to work when familiar forms of communication are lacking: when
people are no longer verbal, or are lost internally, or are loud,
agitated, or stubborn; whether in states of dementia, delirium, autism, traumatic brain injury, or coma.
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CHURCH OF TRUTH ~ Community of Conscious Living
YOUR HEALING PRESENCE ~ HEALING NATURE
morning worship meditation and message in Victoria BC
DATE: Sunday March 30, 2008
Time: 10-11am
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BESSIE DANE HOSPICE
ALZHEIMER & COMA COMMUNICATION:
RELATING TO LOVED ONES AND CLIENTS IN FAR AWAY STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a one day workshop offered On Saltspring Island BC
DATE: Saturday May 3, 2008
Time: 10-4:30
Cost: $25
Coma Work and Palliative Care Manual included
Information & Registration:
Leave a message for Pat at
Bessie Dane Hospice 250.537.2770
Near end of life and in states of
altered consciousness, patients’ greatest fear is not necessarily
death, but of being left alone and confused with insufficient awareness
of themselves and others. ~ We will present Process Work techniques, as
developed by our mentors Drs. Amy and Arny Mindell, that are specially
designed to work when familiar forms of communication are lacking: when
people are no longer verbal, or are lost internally, or are loud,
agitated, or stubborn; whether in states of dementia, delirium, autism, traumatic brain injury, or coma.
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EVENTS FROM PORTLAND OREGON
with STAN TOMANDL assisted by Ann Jacob
through the PROCESS WORK INSTITUTE winter & spring 2007~
SACRED PORTALS I: NAVIGATING THE RAPIDS:
DELIRIUM DURING HEALTH TRAUMA AND END OF LIFE
teleconference class
Date: Thursdays, January 11, 18, 25, 2007
Time: 10am-12noon Pacific Standard Time
Cost: $95US before January 4; $105US thereafter
(add $20 for CEU credit)
Information/questions call us: 250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work Institute, Portland Oregon 1.503.223.8188
The watery thin places between the worlds including delirium,
confusion, forgetfulness, perseveration, stupor, depression, agitation,
and “impossible” situations: provide entry points, portals,
to realms of altered consciousness, opening opportunities for insight,
soul healing, spiritual connection & renewal, relationship
transformation, and personal growth. This class will present bedside
techniques for chaplains, nurses, social workers, physicians, and other
professional, family, and volunteer caregivers that work with those in
states of memory loss, dementia, traumatic brain injury, vegetative
state, and coma.
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SACRED PORTALS II: CASE CONSULTATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE:
SOUL PAIN, AGITATION, AGGRESSION, HALLUCINATIONS, WANDERING,
ESTRANGEMENT, & STAFF DISTRESS
telephone conference class
Date: Thursdays, March 22, April 26, May 24, 2007
Time: 10am-12noon Pacific Standard Time
Cost:: $95US before March 15; $105US thereafter
(add $20 for CEU credit)
Information/questions call us: 250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work Institute,
Portland Oregon
1.503.223.8188 pwi@processwork.org
An opportunity to focus on patients’ problems, caregiving
dilemmas, and caregiver care. We will also practice techniques to bring
awareness and meaning to clients in unusual states of consciousness,
provide methods to unfold and gain new insight from these states, and
tie these insights to daily life, relationships, and community life.
For nurses, chaplains, social workers, physicians, and other
professional, family, and volunteer caregivers that work with people in
states of memory loss, dementia, depression, traumatic brain injury,
vegetative state, and coma.
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DEPRESSION & AGGRESSION: Finding Guidelines in the Wilderness for People in
Delirium & Dementia
teleconference class
Date: Tuesdays, September 18, 25, October 9, 16, 2007
Time: 5-7pm Pacific Time
Cost: $120US before September 11; $135US thereafter
Information/questions call us: 250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work Institute, Portland Oregon 1.503.223.8188
When people encounter "wilderness"
and are lost, they want guides. Learn how to help connect people with
their inner guides, so they can journey with more meaning and less
disruption to themselves and others. The way out is the way through. ~
For hospice staff, students, care aides, nurses, chaplains, social
workers, physicians, and volunteer caregivers; tending people in states
of forgetfulness, delirium, dementia, depression, traumatic brain
injury, vegetative state , and coma.
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NAVIGATING SACRED RIVERS: Case Consultation for Students and Caregivers of People in Altered States of Consciousness
teleconference class
Date: Tuesdays, January 8, February 12, March 11, & April 15, 2008
Time: 5-7pm Pacific Time
Cost: $120US before January 2; $135US thereafter
Information/questions call us: 250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work Institute, Portland Oregon 1.503.223.8188
We will follow the flow of clients'
signals and our reactions, as a way of deepening clients'
communication. We will further awareness and meaning for clients in
nonordinary states of consciousness, provide methods to unfold new
insight from these states, and tie insights to daily life,
relationships, and community. ~For hospice staff, students, care aides, nurses, chaplains, social workers,
physicians, and volunteer caregivers; tending people in states of
forgetfulness, delirium, dementia, depression, traumatic brain injury,
vegetative state , and coma.
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EVENTS IN: PORTLAND OREGON USA
COMA WORK, ETHICS, AND DRUG LEVELS NEAR DEATH
Process Work Institute Portland Oregon
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Date: Wednesday March 28, 2007
Cost: Free Brown Bag Lunch Series (no CEU credit)
Registration: Just drop by at 2049 NW Hoyt, Portland OR USA
Are palliative and nursing home patients being
“snowed” too often with too high doses of psychoactive and
pain relief medication? What are reasonable alternatives to drugs
for working with patients’ and families’ soul suffering end
of life processes? How do we as caregivers and family advocate for more
awareness with staff and administration, when we feel lower drug levels
would be the first step toward relieving soul pain and facilitating a
good death?
What we term the “double state ethic” is supportive,
life affirming eldership of all of patients’ wishes; wishes from
normal consensus reality states of consciousness, such as expressed by
living wills and advance directives, and wishes expressed from within
states of altered consciousness.
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COMA WORK, AWARENESS, AND LOVE
Process Work Institute Portland Oregon
Date: Saturday April 14, 2007
Time: 10am-5pm
Cost:: $110US before April 6; $120US thereafter.
Add $20 for CEU credit, CCE credit applied for
Tuition includes: Coma Work and Palliative Care Manual by Stan Tomandl
Information: Stan Tomandl 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work
Institute 1.503.223.8188 pwi@processwork.org
Training for hospice, care home, home care, and hospital
personal, volunteers, family members, and students. Most people in coma
and other minimally conscious states fear isolation and lack of
awareness even more than death. Learn sensory grounded techniques to
help those with brain trauma, advanced dementia, and metabolic coma
near death. Coma Work techniques can help people with: personality
transformation; completing unfinished business; harvesting life
experience; relating to loved ones; forming spiritual connection; and
making life and death decisions.
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END OF LIFE CARE AND DRUG QUESTIONS: How can End of Life Drug Care Help and Hinder Patients, Staff, and Families?
Process Work Institute Portland Oregon
Date: Saturday April 26, 2008
Time: 10am-5pm
Cost:: $90US before April 6; $100US thereafter.
Information: 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work
Institute 1.503.223.8188 pwi@processwork.org
Unfolding the doctrine of double effect for medications and
double stated ethics of Coma Work: Pain medication and psychoactive
drugs are used widely on palliative care patients in North America.
When and how do drugs ease suffering? When and how do they exacerbate
suffering? Exploring total pain: physical, emotional, psycho-social,
spiritual. ~ For hospice staff, students, care aides, nurses,
chaplains, social workers,
physicians, and volunteer caregivers; tending people in states of
forgetfulness, delirium, dementia, depression, traumatic brain injury,
vegetative state , and coma.
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DEEP INNER STSATES AWARENESS: Graduate Certificate in Lifework and End
of Lifework for Professional, Volunteer and Family Caregivers
Process Work Institute Portland Oregon
Dates & Times: Friday, June 26, 6:00 – 9:00 pm, Saturday, June
27 and Sunday, June 28, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, and Monday, June 29, 9:00 –
2:00 pm, 2009
Cost:: $90US before April 6; $100US thereafter.
Information: 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Register with: Process Work
Institute 1.503.223.8188 pwi@processwork.org
With Dr. Pierre Morin, Gary Reiss, Ph.D., Ingrid Rose, Ph.D., and Stan Tomandl, M.P.W.
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EVENTS THROUGH: THE SACRED ART OF LIVING & DYING
CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION ~ CEU credits available ~
SACRED ART OF LIVING AND DYING, UNIT 3: HEALING SPIRITUAL PAIN ~
COMA COMMUNICATION THERAPY with Stan Tomandl & Ann Jacob
Coma Communication Therapy is based on the sensory grounded tools
developed by Amy and Arny Mindell providing access to the deepest and
farthest away states of those we are caring for. This work is relieving
and growth promoting for everyone involved.
The Sacred Art of Living and Dying program series mirrors one of
the important roles of the Anamcara ( "spiritual midwife" to the dying)
especially with respect to spiritual pain. As human beings face the
journey towards final release, there are opportunities for growth,
relationship, and spiritual connection that often present as patterns
of emotional/spiritual distress. There are concrete, well demonstrated
ways of alleviating this pain. The premise of the program is that all
spiritual pain is ultimately related to the processes of forgiveness,
meaning, relatedness, and hope.
Anyone, regardless of profession, spiritual background, or
previous experience is welcome to participate in the core study units
offered through the Sacred Art of Living and Dying series. For persons
called to support others on their spiritual journey at the end of life,
two additional levels of training and supervision invite persons to
become Anamcara end of life practitioners. All levels of the Sacred Art
of Living and Dying series teach practical skills based on the time
tested lessons of history and the science of modern research, applied
practically to today’s participants and needs.
The Sacred Art of Living and Dying is based on the ancient wisdom
of leaning into the pain to find transformation, and it is the dying
who become our teachers at the end of life.
Dates for Unit 3 program including Coma Communication Therapy
component:
May 19, 2007 ~~ Tokyo, Japan
October 5-6, 2007 ~~ Cleveland, OH
November 9-10, 2007 ~~ Redmond, OR
September 26-27, 2008 ~~ San Diego Hospice
October 13-14,
2008 ~~ Redmond, OR
February 13-14, 2009 ~~ Richland, WA
March 16-17, 2009 ~~ Santa Barbara, CA
April 17-18, 2009 ~~ Huron, OH
October 2-3, 2009 ~~ Redmond, OR
November 20-21, 2009 ~~ Wickliffe, OH
Information: Ann and Stan 1.250.383.5677 annstan@comacommunication.com
Registration: Sacred Art of
Living & Dying Center 1-888-383-4171
info@sacredartofliving.org http://www.sacredartofliving.com/
ANAMCARA PROJECT (Registration Closed for 2006-2008 Program)
Module 3: Tools for Healing Spiritual Pain ~ Coma Communication Therapy
Keynote Speakers: Ann & Stan August 20-24, 2007 Redmond OR
Information: Ann and Stan 1.250.383.5677 stan@comacommunication.com
Registration: Sacred
Art of Living & Dying Center 1-888-383-4171
info@sacredartofliving.org http://www.sacredartofliving.com/
"Die before you die, so that when you die, you will not have to die." ~ Qur'an
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Click here to view our 2006 offerings.
For more information contact:
Stan Tomandl, MA, PWD ~ Ann Jacob, B.Ed
COMA COMMUNICATION ~ PROCESS ORIENTED FACILITATION
#502--620 View Street, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1J6
1.250.383.5677
annstan@comacommunication.com
www.comacommunication.com
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