Teacher and author (The Five Invitations) Frank Ostaseski has decades of being with people at end of life. Here he considers the wisdom in grieving in the healing process, and the importance s of allowing the constellation of responses to loss. He offers how the pain of loss can be embraced and gradually released. His talk was to the Hospice of Santa Barbara.
Roshi Joan Halifax addresses “Courage, Love, and Compassion” with the Hospice of Santa Barbara. Halifax is a remarkable teacher and a leading voice on death and dying. Her book, Being with Dying, Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death is an insightful, practical, and profound reading.
What is a good death? NHAELO Director Rebecca Brown joins a palliative care nurse, a spiritual director, and an end-of-life doula for this panel discussion at the Portsmouth Public Library. The event was sponsored by Hospice Help Foundation and Brookhaven Hospice in conjunction with the library.