Metta Institute Teleconference with Joan Halifax Roshi


Metta Institute provides innovative educational programs and professional trainings fostering mindful and compassionate end-of-life care About the Teacher Joan Halifax Roshi has worked in the area of death and dying for over thirty years and is Director of the Upaya Zen Center's renowned Project on Being with Dying. She teaches internationally and is currently a distinguished invited scholar to the Library of Congress. Roshi is a keynote presenter at major medical centers, universities, AAHPC and NHPCO conferences. A pioneer in contemplative end of life care her teleconference teaching titled "Being with Dying" will draw on the work developed in her new book. Available at Amazon

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Metta Institute Teleconference Series

Featuring spiritual teachers, hospice experts, storytellers, authors and psychologists....people who are re-visioning care of the dying in America.

Metta Institute is offering a series of inspiring teleconferences on contemplative care of the dying. Our next program features our good friend Joan Halifax Roshi, Zen priest, Founder and Co-Abbot of the Upaya Zen Center . The teleconference will focus on Being with Dying and the essential role of compassion in caregiving.

NEWS!!!

1. NHPCO is now a co-sponsor of this teleconference! We welcome our new partner in bringing inspired educational programs to front line clinicians & volunteers in 3500 hospices!

2. GROUP DISCOUNT: Register as an organization and receive a discount. 10 people on a group call for only $150. Avoid isolation. Buld collaboration. Use this confernce as a small group in-service .

3. PALLIMED CONTEST Two lucky readers can receive complimentary individual registrations by adding a blog post or a tweet about the teleconference on Pallimed the premier Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog.

4. BUSY NEXT TUESDAY
Can't join the live conference? You can still participate. Register and receive a link to listen to a recording of the conference at your leisure.

Click the Register Now button below and get started!

Teleconference

Being with Dying

with Joan Halifax Roshi

    Tuesday, May 3, 2011
    4:00pm - 5:00 pm PDT
    7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
       (or download a podcast and listen at your leisure)

Individual Cost $25

Organization Cost $150 (for up to 10 members)

No charge for graduates of the Metta Institute EOL Care Practitioner Program

Individual Registration Process

Click the Register Now button above...follow the step by step prompts. Pay $25 by credit card. Receive an automated email with an individual call-in number and pin code.

Organization Registration Process

Designate a group leader. Click the Register Now button above...follow the step by step prompts. Pay $150 by credit card. The designated leader will receive an automated email with an special group call-in number and pin code. You may incude up to 10 members in the group call.

Can't Join the Live Conference.....Listen to a Recording

Register and receive an email with a link to download an mp3 audio recording of the event. The recording will be available 2 days after the conference.

Course Objectives

At the completion of this conference the participant will be able to:

recognize edge states that caregivers experience in end of life care.
define a contemplative approach to end of life care.

Continuing Education

The course is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP #14909 for 1 contact hour.

The course meets the qualifications for 1 hour of continuing education credits for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences PCE# 4160.

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With gratitude,
Frank Ostaseski

Metta Institute PO Box 2710 Sausalito. CA. 94966 - www.metttainstitute.org