Palliative care: conversations with people living with a life-limiting illness

LIVE WEBINAR: 16th July 2024, 1-3pm NZST

Register here: 

https://book.griefcentre.org.nz/Palliativecare0724

Who should attend this webinar?

Anyone who works in a professional care role or supports people through all forms of loss and grief. This webinar is particularly applicable to those counselling or supporting people living with a life-limiting illness. Our content is applicable to a wide variety of professions including counsellors, social workers, teachers, emergency response teams, medical, corrections, mental health, hospice, volunteers, caregivers and more. 

Overview

People living with a life-limiting illness are often facing significant losses that impact their sense of self, relationships, quality of life and hopes for themselves and their loved ones.

They can feel overwhelmed by grief, fear, and despair. They may also feel huge pressure to ‘stay positive’, or to ‘keep fighting’ or to protect loved ones by keeping their pain and distress hidden. This webinar will explore ways to engage with people that are helpful in the midst of these complex and conflicted experiences.

Key learning points

1. Understanding palliative care and the role of Hospice

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team

2. Goals and themes of counselling people approaching end-of-life

• Letting the person lead and working at their pace
• Getting to know the person apart from the illness
• Recognising the significant losses that the illness brings
• Finding and sustaining preferred identities in the face of illness
• Locating the story of the illness in the larger story of the person’s life
• Being a respectful and compassionate witness and companion in the face of suffering
• Supporting the person to meet dying and death in ways that they prefer

3. Therapist resources

• What enables you to sit with great suffering without rushing ahead and trying to make things better for the person?
• How do you sustain compassion and respect?
• How do you care for yourself in and around these conversations?

Webinar registration details

When you register you will get:

• Access to the live two-hour webinar
• Access to the webinar recording 
• Access to a downloadable PDF handout
• Certificate of accomplishment issued on completion of a short quiz
• Access to CPD points

Certificate of accomplishment

We can provide a certificate of accomplishment for all our training courses. The requirement for receiving a certificate to confirm professional development is as follows:

• You must view a minimum of 80% of a live-presented webinar workshop or
• You must view a minimum of 80% of a recorded webinar workshop
• You must complete a short quiz on the webinar content

CPD points/credits

We are accredited to provide points/credits to the following Organisations, Educational Institutes, and Associations:

New Zealand
FDANZ
NZEA
NZFIH

Australia
AROH

Our training is endorsed or recommended by the following Organisations, Educational Institutes, and Associations:

New Zealand

NZAC
CANZ

DAPAANZ
NZSDRT
The CPD Group

Australia
ACWA
ACA (Australian Counselling Association)

To receive your CPD points/credits, you will need to receive a certificate of accomplishment which you can then provide to your relevant institution.