Palliative care is finally getting the attention it deserves.   More and more people who have a terminal or life-threatening illness are asking that their professional and volunteer caregivers understand their physical, emotional, spiritual, and information needs.   Caregivers, as well, are looking for ways to help them cope with their own needs as they help patients and families.

This program will provide a patient-family focus on how to provide support to patients, families, colleagues, and yourself to live life more fully.

1. Present what it is that patients, family members, and care providers need before death and during the grieving process.
2. Discuss the mutuality of the palliative philosophy of care in meeting physical, emotional, spiritual, and information needs.
3. Examine specific communication and conflict resolution strategies.
4. Model the palliative philosophy of care through presentation and group exercises that try to meet some of the participants' own physical, emotional, spiritual, and information needs.

Note:   This workshop comes with a FREE, detailed self-study manual that covers the workshop material for your ongoing learning.

Registration will be confirmed upon receipt of registration AND payment.

Cancellations must be received in writing three weeks before the workshop date.   All refunds are subject to a $75.00 administration charge.

Rooms are available for the workshop attendees at a special rate. Please make your reservations directly with the hotel. You must identify yourself as attending the workshop to qualify for the special rate.   Book Early!

Harry van Bommel, M. Ad. Ed
Mr. van Bommel is the author of 16 books in the fields of management and staff development, learning skills, writing family histories, and, of course, his four palliative/home care books: Caring for Loved Ones at Home; Choices for People Who Have a Terminal Illness, Their Families and Their Caregivers; Dying for Care: Hospice Care or Euthanasia; and The Heart of Hospice, with Dr. Dorothy C.H. Ley. He has taught thousands of people across Canada about palliative/hospice care from the perspective of patients and their families.   He speaks to professionals and volunteers at international, national, provincial, and regional conferences as well as having taught at Ryerson Polytechnic University and community colleges.    He has appeared in more than 120 television, radio, and print media interviews.

Mr. van Bommel has a Masters of Adult Education Degree from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.