Training offerings . . . please scroll down
We currently offer training in these areas:
The Sacred Portals ~ Living Near Death, Grief, Dementia, Memory Loss, Delirium, Coma
Alzheimer's and Family Life ~
Formats ~
Private bedside training sessions with clients and families
Phone and video Skype consultation sessions ~ with
or without video analysis One half day to three day
workshops for care facilities and organisations
Keynote speakers for conferences
2012-2013 TRAINING SCHEDULE
PRIVATE COUNSELLING & CONSULTING PRACTICE + TRAINING TRAINERS:
Working with creativity, joy, grief, trauma, addictions, transitions,
dreaming, spiritual life, living near death, body and mind dilemmas,
relationships, aging, memory loss and altered consciousness . . .
having walked with thousands of people, engaging heart, soul, body
experiences, and emotions, we have witnessed and facilitated the
immense beauty and wisdom of the human spirit and its great yearning to
be known and lived.
+ classes: face to face, telephone, and Skype
counselling and conferences for
individuals and groups
+ workshops: for family communication including end
of life training and
advocacy, deep inner awareness facilitation and Coma
Communication "Someone is always home."
WEDNESDAY CLASSES. Ongoing. Time: 5-7 pm Place: Victoria, BC. Process Work Classes year round.
Using sensory grounded, nature based experiential and scientific
methods developed by Drs. Amy & Arny Mindell, as pathways into our
deep, wise, mythic natures. ~
January 11, 18, 25, 2012:
SYNCHRONICITY: TIME & THE INTENTIONAL FIELD. SAN PI SAGHALIE TYEE (Chinook Jargon: Day and God)
Synchronicity ~ Transformation ~ Creativity. Synchronicity reveals and
forms: Personal Body Directions, our Relationship Choices, Creative
Cultural Expression. We will explore the meaning and mythology of time
and energy, to better connect with ourselves, others, and our
environment.
April 11, 18, 25, 2012
RIVERS of HOPE, Logjams of Despair.
CHUCK ALAKTI, Ka Cultus Tum Tum (Chinook Jargon. River Hopefully, Stop from Bad Heart)
Rivers reveal a course for those willing to learn to read them. We may
have to portage; the river will tell us when. The river can sing us
into fuller connection with ourselves, others, and environment. We will
provide "water reading" and "paddling" skills for navigation and deep
conviviality on inner explorations and outer life accomplishments.
June 6, 13, 20, 2012
BEYOND ADDICTIONS: Conviviality. Hospitality. Community.
YAWA LUM: Kloshe Tum Tum Mika Chaco Sikhs. (Chinook Jargon: Beyond Rum: Good Heart You Are Welcome Friends)
Addictions involve a strong yearning for spiritual connection. We will
explore addictive tendencies and addictions; the practical aspects of
quitting and transforming addictions; human connections as 13th step,
& spiritual yearning as life path.
FALL CLASS DATES: September 12, 19, 26, 2012. November 7, 14, 21, 2012
The subjects are still forming. Your ideas are welcome. We will send out a flyer update in late summer.
WORKSHOPS
March 23, 2012
COMMUNICATION IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE. Cowichan Valley Hospice Society. Duncan, BC Canada
Providing sensory grounded, practical awareness tools to help explore
presence, communication, meaning, purpose, and relationship with people
in altered consciousness, often in seemingly impossible situations:
relieving suffering, enhancing relationship, alleviating feelings of
inadequacy and grief. We teach skills to further: quiet vigils,
resolve heart wrenching dilemmas, calm agitation, & enhance joyful
processes. "Someone is always home."
September 24 & 25, 2012
COMMUNICATION IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE. HEALING PRACTICES AT THE END OF LIFE.
FORGETFULNESS & GRIEF. Providence Hospital. St. Paul's Hospice. VanDusen Gardens. Vancouver, BC. Canada.
WORKSHOPS ~ Victoria ongoing 1/2 day Workshops
FORGETFULNESS & DEPRESSION in EARLY & MIDSTAGE DEMENTIA & COMA COMMUNICATION
TELEPHONE CLASSES with the PROCESS WORK INSTITUTE. Registration: 503.223.8188
Available from anywhere in the world. *** Distance Learning *** Teleconference. Open to everyone.
DATES: Tuesdays January 10. Feb. 14. March 13, 2012 Time: 10am-12pm (pacific time zone)
FORGETFULNESS & DEPRESSION: EARLY & MIDSTAGE DEMENTIA PROCESSES
Help for families, caregivers, and students who live with and learn
from folks in states of forgetfulness. Beneath the difficulties
and grief of memory loss can lie: spiritual seeking; overdue
retirement; definite divorce; detachment from family and friends;
social activism; creative expression, etc.
DATES: Tuesdays. May 8. June 12. July 10. Time: 10 - 2 (pacific time zone)
DEEP ECONOMICS & DEEP DEMOCRACY IN PERSONAL AND GLOBAL
DILEMMAS. What do we do in our spiritual lives and our everyday
lives to survive and move the world to greater awareness and new levels
of positive cultural change? We will study and learn from economic
conundrums and economic oppression and our own edges to personal
evolution in our individual economic worlds. (People are still
welcome to join for the second and third class.)
DATES: Tuesdays. Sep 11. Oct 8. Nov 12.2012 ~ 12noon - 2pm (pacific time zone)
AS RIVERS AGE: extreme age, eldership & wisdom. telephone conference training and supervision classes
As Rivers Age, they sing the Riversong of Life and Death aligned.
Flowing through seasons of regret and reconciliation, bereavement and
beatitude, despair and detachment, loss and love. Millions of people
now have the privilege/burden of living in altered states of insight
and awareness, rarely seen in the past: aging into their 80's, 90's,
100's; sometimes in frailty with isolated consciousness. They call us
to deeper essential relationship. We need to learn from them, and
prepare for our own extreme eldership.
DATES: Tuesdays ~ 2013 Jan 8, Feb 12, Mar 12, 2013 ~ 12noon - 2pm (pacific time zone)
FORGETFULNESS & DEPRESSION: early to end stage dementia processes. (repeated by request)
For those living with, working with, and learning from folks in the
process of forgetting; to provide opportunities within the difficulties
and grieving of memory loss and role changes. Are people spiritually
seeking? Taking overdue retirement? Definite divorce? Detachment from
family and friends? Social activism? Sharing wisdom? Creative
expression? New ways of relating? ~ For family members, caregivers,
educators, and administrators: learn to follow and unfold signals,
sounds, and perseverations; to calm aggression and provide
opportunities for growth from altered states of awareness.
DATES: Tuesdays: 2013 May 14, June 11, July 9, 2013 TIME: 12noon - 2pm (pacific time zone)
PRESENTING TO THE WORLD: GIVING AND RECEIVING WORKSHOPS: Training and supervision classes
An edges & alligators, nuts & bolts training to help tap deep
creativity: (1) negotiate equitably with sponsors and presenters (2)
organize efficiently (3) promote successfully (4) plan engaging
material (5) facilitate more spontaneously (6) preempt potential
attacks (7) turn disturbances into educational processes (8) utilize
technology brilliantly (9) receive great feedback (10) attend workshops
in a more learningful, critical, and interactive manner.
WEBINARS with the Sacred Art of Living Center. Bend, Oregon
ANAMCARA PROJECT 2011 - 2012. International Training Program.
HEALING PRACTICES AT THE END OF
LIFE.
with Ann Jacob, B.Ed + Stan Tomandl, MA + Marlis Beier, MD + Richard
Maunder MD. (registration
closed).
Coma Communication. Creating Sacred Spaces. Breath Work. Psalms &
Poetry. Life Review. Medications.
Family.
TO BE ON OUR MAILING LIST for updates and additions to our schedule
or to learn more about our work and who we are, Please write or call.
We Welcome your interest and inquiries. Thank You! Ann + Stan.
Ann Jacob, BA.Ed Stan Tomandl, MA, PWD
#502 ~ 620 View Street Victoria BC Canada Coast Salish Territory
annstan@comacommunication.com ©
www.comacommunication.com 250.383.5677
2010-2011 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 Psychology and Amy and Arny Mindell please check
out their website: http://www.aamindell.net
PLEASE CALL US with your questions. We offer a free initial session.
250.383.5677 sliding scale
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PHONE & VIDEO SKYPE COUNSELLING AND CONSULTING:
It is wonderful how the phone and video Skype can
bridge the distance between us all. We work with folks in various
places at a distance, including patients in acute care, intensive care,
and nursing homes and find the work to be practical, deep and
rewarding.
Phone and video Skype sessions for individual
counselling, professional client consultations, supervision, family
emergency work.
1.250.383.5677 annstan@comacommunication.com
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Ongoing WEDNESDAY CLASSES 5 - 7 pm
Process Work classes year around in Victoria BC Canada
Using sensory grounded nature based experiential and scientific methods developed by
Drs. Amy & Arny Mindell, as pathways to insight into our deep, wise, mythic natures.
Please write for current schedule of events or call us if you have questions.
Thanks. Ann and Stan annstan@comacommunication.com
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PRIVATE COUNSELING PRACTICE: Working with being human: creativity, joy,
grief, trauma, addictions, transitions, dreaming, spiritual life,
living near death, body and mind dilemmas, relationships, aging, memory
loss and altered consciousness.
“. . . having walked with thousands of people, engaging the
heart, soul, body experiences, and emotions, we have witnessed the
immense beauty and wisdom of the human spirit and its great yearning to
be known and lived.
classes ~ telephone conference classes ~ workshops ~ Skype consultation
family communication ~ international end of life training and advocacy
deep inner awareness facilitation and Coma Communication ~ someone is always home ~
250.383.5677 annstan@comacommunication.com
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PRIVATE COUNSELING & CONSULTING~ PRACTICE. + TRAINING TRAINERS:
Working with creativity, joy, grief, trauma, addictions, transitions,
dreaming, spiritual life, living near death, body and mind dilemmas,
relationships, aging, memory loss and altered consciousness. “. .
. having walked with thousands of people, engaging the heart, soul,
body experiences, and emotions, we have witnessed the immense beauty
and wisdom of the human spirit and its great yearning to be known and
lived.
+ classes: telephone and Skype counseling and conference ~ individuals and groups
+ workshops: family communication ~ international end of life training and advocacy
deep inner awareness facilitation and Coma Communication “someone is always home”
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WEDNESDAY CLASSES. Ongoing. Time: 5-7 pm Place: Victoria, BC. Process Work Classes year round
Using sensory grounded nature based experiential and scientific methods
developed by Drs. Amy & Arny Mindell, as pathways to insight into
our deep, wise, mythic natures.
THE WORLD: KONOWAY OKOKE ILLAHEE (Chinook). In reconciliation and conflict resolution
Dates:. February & March 2011.
Registration and Inquiries Welcome: Ann & Stan 250.383.5677
CREATIVE BEGINNINGS ~ Mamook Chee (Chinook Jargon). New patterns, New
meaning, Opportunity, Change, Commencement, Inauguration. That
beginning is now, in our daily lives.
Dates: May & June 2011
Registration and Inquiries Welcome: Ann & Stan 250.383.5677
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WORKSHOPS:
COMA COMMUNICATION ~ Relieving Isolation and Alleviating Grief.
Date: March 18, 2011 TIME:
7-9 Cost: $35 $25 students and
hospice volunteers
Place: Courtenay, BC Contact: Carrie Bahm 250.895.9199
CREATIVE BEGINNINGS ~ Mamook Chee (Chinook Jargon). New patterns, New
meaning, Opportunity, Change, Commencement, Inauguration. That
beginning is now, in our daily lives.
Date: March 19, 2011 Time: 10-5 Cost: $95
Place: Courtenay, BC Contact: Carrie Bahm 250.895.9199
FORGETFULNESS & DEPRESSION in EARLY & MIDSTAGE DEMENTIA
A call for relating in new ways!
Dates: March 26. April 30. June 25. September 24. November 26. Ongoing Training.
Time: 10-1 Cost: $45 each. Students and special situations $30
Place: Victoria BC Contact: Ann + Stan 250.383.5677
COMA COMMUNICATION: Connecting deeply throughout all the stages of living and dying
Date: April 2011 Place: Boulder Colorado
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TELEPHONE CLASSES. available from anywhere in the world:
FORGETFULNESS & DEPRESSION Help for families,
caregivers, and process workers who live with and learn from folks in
states of forgetfulness. Beneath the difficulties and grief of memory
loss can lie: spiritual seeking; overdue retirement; definite divorce;
detachment from family and friends; social activism; creative
expression, etc. Dates: Tuesdays January 11. Feb. 8. March 8,
2011 Time: 10am-12pm teleconference
Cost:$108 ($96 member) before December 22, $120 ($108 member) thereafter
Register: Process Work Institute. 503.223.8188
telephone class. continued
BACKGROUND CONFLICT FACILITATION: WHAT WORKS --- WHAT DOESN’T
Dates:Tuesdays, May 10, June 14 and July 12, 10am-12pm
Cost: $108 ($96 member) before April 26. $120 ($108 member) thereafter
Register: Process Work Institute. 503.223.8188
How do process oriented conflict facilitators operate when we are not
designated facilitators in: work situations, community meetings, and in
family gatherings? We will discuss the lessons we’ve learned the
hard way and from our mentors: when and how to do inner work; attitudes
and metaskills; and how to act without attracting blame or taking
credit for facilitating hotspots and resolution.
*** Distance Learning. Teleconference. Open to everyone. Individuals. Families. Professionals***
Sacred Art of Living Center. Bend Oregon
COMA COMMUNICATION with the ANAMCARA PROJECT 2011 - 2012 (closed to registration)
TO BE ON OUR MAILING LIST for updates and additions to our schedule
please write annstan@comacommunication.com
and FOR MORE INFORMATION about our offerings, for flyers,
or to learn more about our work and who we are We Welcome your interest and inquiries.
Call or look at our - often in need of weeding - web site.
Thank You! Ann + Stan
Serving complicated and important communication needs in our global community for over 25 years.
2010 Training Schedule
COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL HEALTH 2nd International Association of
Process Oriented Psychology Conference 2010: Portland
Oregon February 25 – March 1 2010. Sessions
with Ann and Stan. Plenary: 2 Workshops:~ Using Personal
Reactions & Delirium. CanConnect: simple Skype for use with
aging, memory loss, visiting from a distance and other special needs.
Conference proceedings now available as an audio download
Cost: $30
http://www.iapop.com/2010conf.html
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SACRED ESSENCE: Case Consultation for Caregivers ~ Teleconference
Tuesdays. May 11, June 15, July 13, 2010. 12-2 pm pacific time
Cost: $100 before April 23, 2010 $120 thereafter
We provide opportunities to learn and grow in skill, as we focus
together on finding solutions to patients' problems and care giving
dilemmas, while reinforcing caregiver care. We will study and practice
techniques to bring presence of heart, greater awareness, and the
spirit of meaning to clients in unusual states of consciousness. We
provide methods to unfold and gain new insight from these states, and
tie these insights to their daily lives, relationship, and community.
For nurses, chaplains, social workers, physicians, and other
professionals; for family and volunteer caregivers; for all of us
working with people in states of memory loss, dementia, delirium,
autism, mental health states, depression, traumatic brain injury,
vegetative state, coma.
Questions: annstan@comacommunication.com
Registration: http://www.processwork.org/
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COMA COMMUNICATION: HEALING THE UNCONSCIOUS: SACRED ART OF
LIVING AND DYING: Seattle
Washington April 8 + 9 2010 ~
please contact: stan@sacredartofliving.org or http://www.sacredartofliving.org
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BRITISH COLUMBIA HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE CONFERENCE: May 14
- 15 2010 ~ “ALLEVIATING GRIEF FOR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND STAFF
through nonverbal communication methods with
patients in End of Life
Consciousness”
for information contact: annstan@comacommunication.com or http://www.hospicebc.org
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END OF LIFE & PALLIATIVE CARE: Process Work Institute Graduate School. Portland
Stan Tomandl, MA, Ann Jacob, B.Ed, Dr. Pierre Morin, Gary Reiss, PhD, Ingrid Rose, PhD,
Date.Time.Fee: July 17: 1:00pm-5:30pm July 18-20: 9:00am-12:30pm & 2-5:30pm $430
Info: annstan@comacommunication.com
Registration: http://www.processwork.org/
This course presents Process-oriented coma work techniques to enhance
skills to assist patients and families experiencing challenging
physical, emotional, and spiritual processes at end of life; such as
pain, delirium, delusions, grief, and coma. Process Work teaches unique
non-verbal communication skills for caregivers to connect with and
understand patients in out-of-the-ordinary states of consciousness.
This course aims to help shift the field of palliative care from
focusing primarily on the body to caring for the whole person--mind,
body and spirit. This shift offers hope and advocates for a new ethical
sensitivity which recognizes deep sentient experiences. The course
addresses issues relevant to working with patients, families, and the
medical system involved in end of life patient care.
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ALTERED CONSCIOUSNESS COMMUNICATION:
White Rock Hospice Society
For patients in end of life states of dementia, depression, delirium and coma.
September 11, 2010 ~ for nearby hospices
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ALTERED CONSCIOUSNESS COMMUNICATION:
Lions Gate Hospice Society
For patients in end of life states of dementia, depression, delirium and coma.
September 13, 2010 ~ 6pm-9pm
Contact Janet Quenneville: janet.quenneville@vch.ca
604.984.5951
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SACRED ESSENCE: Case Consultation for Caregivers ~ Teleconference
Worldwide Tuesdays. Sep
14, Oct 12, Nov 12
Cost: $100
Opportunities to learn and grow in skill, as we focus together on
finding solutions to patients' problems and care giving dilemmas, while
reinforcing caregiver care. We will study and practice techniques to
bring presence of heart, greater awareness, and the spirit of meaning
to clients in unusual states of consciousness. We provide methods to
unfold and gain new insight from these states, and tie these insights
to their daily lives, relationship, and community.
For nurses, chaplains, social workers, physicians, and other
professionals; for family and volunteer caregivers; for all of us
working with people in states of memory loss, dementia, delirium,
autism, mental health states, depression, traumatic brain injury,
vegetative state, coma.
Questions: annstan@comacommunication.com
Registration: http://www.processwork.org/
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AS LONG AS THERE IS BREATH THERE IS CONSCIOUSNESS:
Seattle Swedish Hospital Hospice. For patients in end of life states of
dementia, depression, delirium and coma.
October 15, 2010
Cost: $75
Contact: Joan Wahlmeier 206.386.3030 ext. 33615 Joan.Wahlmeier@swedish.org
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COMA COMMUNICATION: HEALING THE UNCONSCIOUS: SACRED ART OF LIVING AND
DYING. Unit 3 Redmond OR. October 8 + 9,
2010
for more information on this training ~
please contact: stan@sacredartofliving.org or http://www.sacredartofliving.org
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COMA COMMUNICATION: HEALING THE UNCONSCIOUS: SACRED ART OF LIVING AND
DYING. Unit 3 Sligo,
Ireland November 12 + 13, 2010
for more information on this training ~
please contact: stan@sacredartofliving.org or http://www.sacredartofliving.org
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Please contact us with questions, or to be on our mailing list.
We appreciate having you as part of our learning community. Thank You!
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2009 Training Schedule...
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: $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
Trainers: Dr. Pierre Morin, Gary Reiss,
Ph.D., Ingrid Rose, Ph.D., and
Stan Tomandl, M.P.W.
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EVENTS IN CANADA
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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2008 OFFERINGS
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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
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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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