Living Well Nurse Coaching

07/17/2023

I've worked recently with two different people living with serious illness -- both following very different paths.

One sees this as part of her life, trying to live this last chapter with the values and priorities that matter most to her. She's building her care community and encouraging open conversations with her close-in circle of friends.

The other is "hoping for the best" and choosing not to have a plan for her care over the months and years ahead. When family members ask how she's imagining her care as she becomes weaker and less mobile, she closes down conversations.

I can tell you from decades of experience that the second option often brings more confusion, crisis, and disconnection to the person and their family. It's hard to witness.
And it's one of the reasons I left hospice work to open up conversations in our communities about how we die.

Join us in September for a really good class called "A Roadmap for the End of Life."

It's a perfect opportunity to reflect ahead of time on how you want to be cared for -- where you want to be -- what will guide your decisions when living with serious illness.

What if how you lived the last part of your life – and how you planned for it – was part of the legacy you leave behind?

You Are Here: A roadmap for the rest of your life Weekly on (5) Wednesdays: September 6, 13, 20, 27; October 6, 2023. Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m. EST.   You Are Here: A roadmap for the rest of your life (Group Class)   Life is short…and most people don’t have a plan for th

12/28/2022

The New Year is often a time of retrospection and renewal.
It's a good time to ask:
What matters most to me? What priorities do I want to live by this year? What do I want to let go of that no longer serves me?

Join us for the January cohort that starts 1/9/23!
This is a 4-week self-paced online program that encourages nurses to help re-imagine the end of life as an invitation to live fully now...and to support people to make decisions based on what matters most to them.

With end-of-life coaching, nurses encourage people to "Begin with the end in mind": Acknowledge that we are mortal and that our time is not promised.
We focus on making today count and living the time we have with as much intention and gratitude as possible.

Also...22 contact hours!

4-week course for nurses based on the award winning book, Re-Imagining the End of Life: Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurses

09/08/2022

Hope you enjoy our conversation!

Direct podcast link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-life-best-death/id1592517438

Best Life Best Death Podcast Blog: https://bestlifebestdeath.com/podcast-54-jan-booth-music-at-the-end-of-life/

This week’s podcast speaks to the heart about music at the end of life. My guest, Jan Booth, says: “Music can support and bolster people, especially in hard times. It can be inspiring; it can bring people together; it can foster connection; it can change the dynamic in a room, or in a house, or in someone’s internal state. Music can bring a sacred quality to the end of life; it can shift the energy of a moment. Music speaks to the heart and the spirit. It can invoke tears, and it can bring up memories as part of a life review.” There are so many ways that music can touch us and bring us together at the end of life! Listen in to hear Jan’s thoughts on the power of music as medicine and how we can bring this resource to the bedside.

Listen below
https://bestlifebestdeath.com/podcast

09/07/2022

Enrollment still open for the October online course for nurses and coaches: "End of Life Coaching -- Reimagining the nurse's role in end-of-life care."

Self-paced...go at your own speed over 4 weeks in October...great way to earn 22 CEs and be a part of transforming how people live with serious illness and how people die.

Join us!

4-week course for nurses based on the award winning book, Re-Imagining the End of Life: Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurses

08/19/2022

End-of-Life Coaching:
Re-Imagining the Nurse’s Role in Transforming End of Life Care.
Join the next cohort of our 4-Week Online Continuing Nursing Education Course.
Starts Oct. 3rd...22 CEs...self-paced and within a cohort of like-minded, inspiring nurses.
Please share with any nurses who wants to be part of transforming the end of life in their communities.

4-week course for nurses based on the award winning book, Re-Imagining the End of Life: Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurses

08/11/2022

Join us for this popular class!
Wednesday evenings in September.

Setting your intentions for the last chapter of your life changes how you live between now and then.
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08/04/2022

It’s time.
Join us in September for a practical and uplifting approach to planning for the last part of our lives.
This 4-week course can change peoples' lives.

Having just walked through the last months of my mom’s life with her, I’m immensely grateful for all the planning, open conversations & inspiration she encouraged.

10/20/2021

For nurses and nurse coaches:
Here's an opportunity to:
*expand your sense of what's possible in the last part of life, *deepen your own exploration of what matters most to you, and *bring some of that wisdom into the work you do as a nurse.

Also...22 CEs!
The next cohort starts early November -- join us for the next cohort.

Please share widely.
We are amplifying the voice of nursing around how we live and how we die.

4-week online course for nurses based on the book, Re-Imagining the End of Life: Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurse Coaches.

08/27/2021

Come to one of the free Intro sessions to see if this is the right step for you.
Details below.
The Art of Dying Institute (through the NY Open Center) has been a leading voice in the transformative end-of-life movement.

Please share with others.

When we launched the first Art of Dying conference in the spring of 1995 with our friends Tibet House we had little idea that, not only would The Open Center be engaged with this vital theme for a quarter of a century, but that our efforts would evolve into an Institute offering in-depth certificate...

07/26/2021

Join us in August for a short course that could change how you experience grief and how you experience joy in life.

"I consider grief a threshold emotion. In other words, when we step across that threshold and enter the room of grief, it has a way of opening up the rest of our life.” (Francis Weller) We’ve all experienced grief in our lives – many times. It’s a natural response to loss. We usually tal

07/09/2021

An online course for nurses & nurse coaches, based on the book:Re-Imagining the End of Life:Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurse Coaches.