It is hard to sustain our compassion in day-to-day caregiving. We can lose perspective, feel overwhelmed, isolated, disheartened and get exhausted. It is easy to neglect our own needs, and to forget the fact that compassion and care must include us. Take an honest look at self-care, and how we can work with some of the barriers to extending kindness to ourselves especially when we need it the most.

Join the conversation and experience key practical contemplative compassion tools and resources to help us heal, feel nurtured and more connected.

This was a full introduction to the powerful method of Deep Listening. This method provides a safe, open space for listening transforming communication at all levels, allowing the unspoken to be heard. A short experiential online workshop exploring how the embodied listener applies the skills of compassion and awareness.

This was a three part exploration for families and loved ones to incorporate music as a care resource as they journey with those who have received life threatening diagnosis, are critically ill, are traveling a hospice journey, may be approaching the end of life, or may be actively dying. The class combined a variety of teachings, anecdotal experiences, discussion time, and supplementary song materials for participants to learn and to keep.

A skills training in the contemplative-based approach to end-of-life care for health and social care professionals, spiritual care providers, doulas and volunteers

The Authentic Presence Immersion Retreat is an experiential training in contemplative-based end-of-life care. Led by a faculty of health and social care professionals and educators from Ireland and Europe, this training is far more than an academic course. Its truly unique approach explores the deeper dimension of living, dying and caregiving by bringing together the practical knowledge of today’s palliative care environments with the contemplative methods of mindfulness, compassion and awareness taught in the Buddhist tradition.