Conference
on Visiting the Sick and Seriously Ill
What Does a Sick Person Want From Me When I Visit?
What Do I Want From Myself?
What Does My Community
Expect From My Visiting the Sick and Seriously Ill?
Mission Statement
To provide
a psychological-spiritual-educational environment in which individuals who
visit the sick and seriously ill have an opportunity to develop and enhance
these interactions by becoming a more mindful visitor in each visit.
Objectives
- Developing a posture of active
listening and conversation.
- Planning for mental preparedness.
- Assessing personal physical
integrity.
- Seeking the Three Guests in
any important conversation.
·
Developing
appropriate responses to the sick person’s needs and expectation of the visit.
·
Learning
the skills to convey compassion, support, and empathy.
- Appreciating the interdependent
components of successful visiting and self- care.
·
Understanding
your emotional needs to sustain yourself in this important work.
Process
We will
use principles of adult education and reflective learning in assisting
participants to create their important conversations with sick persons. Trained guides and mentors will facilitate large and small small experiential groups utilizing Core
Competency Objectives of successful interpersonal communication.
You will:
- Explore,
share, and articulate your own personal path towards becoming comfortable
and satisfied in such visits.
- Acknowledge and strive to accept
your own feelings, as a pathway towards facing the innate and hidden needs
of others.
- Assess in a non-judgmental and
liminal manner the various ways in which your feelings facilitate or
hinder as barriers important and meaningful conversation with sick
persons.
- Understand the blind spots of
personality and background that get in the way of your desire to be
helpful.
- Practice in small groups your
emotional responses when visiting the sick.
- Learn the skills to identify and
work with the emotions of sick persons in helpful ways.
Long Term Goal
To
develop a supportive community of reflective practitioners to reduce personal
dissatisfaction, enhance communication skills, and eliminate emotional burnout.
Philosophy of coordinators
Help
facilitate our role of commitment and vision for a more mindful caring about
fellow ill persons.
Structure
a successful yearly conference in behalf of persons living with and through
illness and their visitors.
Alan S. Wolkenstein, MSW,LCSW, Conference Coordinator
Clinical Professor of Family Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public
Health
Senior Educator and Consultant : Wolkenstein and
Associates, LLC
Mequon, Wisconsin
M. Evan Wolkenstein, MA, Conference Facilitator
Director of Experiential Education
JCHS of the Bay
San Francisco, California
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