Being with Dying: Compassion and Presence with Roshi Joan Halifax is available for 90 days after enrollment.

Credit: 1 hour

CE/CME Offered: Nurse and Social Worker

This session was originally presented as a plenary session at NHPCO’s Caring for Mind Body and Spirit Conference in 2007, explores and examines contemplative approaches to work with dying people that have been developed by Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, since she began the Project on Being with Dying in 1994 to bring spiritual support to dying people and their caregivers.Dr. Halifax will introduce contemplative approaches to being with dying, community development and care of the care giver. She will explore contemplative, spiritual, and psychological issues related to dying and death; community building around dying persons and relationship-centered care; spiritual care of the dying and care-based ethics; the relationship between pain and suffering and will introduce mindfulness-based stress reduction to ensure attention to and care of the caregiver.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss contemplative approaches to work with dying people;
• Identify contemplative, spiritual and psychological issues related to death and dying;
• Discuss the importance of community building and relationship-centered care;
• Identify elements of spiritual care of the dying and care-based ethics;
• Compare and contrast the relationship between pain and suffering;
• Practice mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Roshi Joan Halifax

Joan Halifax Roshi is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has worked in the area of death and dying for over thirty-five years and is Director of the Project on Being with Dying. She is Founder and Director of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners. For the past twenty-five years, she has been active in environmental work. She studied for a decade with Zen Teacher Seung Sahn and was a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and was given Inka by Roshi Bernie Glassman. A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on applied Buddhism. Her many books include “The Human Encounter with Death”, “The Fruitful Darkness”, and “Being with Dying: Compassionate End-of-Life Care Training Guide.”

Course Release Date: 2/23/2010

Course Expiration Date: 2/23/2013

Nurse:  NHPCO is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

NHPCO designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 contact hours. Nurses should claim only the contact hours commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Accredited status by ANCC refers only to continuing nursing education and does not imply endorsement of any commercial product discussed in conjunction with this activity.

Social Worker: NHPCO is an approved provider of continuing education contact hours by the National Association of Social Workers (provider #886414158). This education activity is approved for 1.5 hours determined by the content, and social workers are awarded continuing education hours commensurate with the extent of their participation.