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Module 1 - WelcomeCertified End-of-Life Specialist

Training ProgramCEOLS

For Volunteers, Personal and Professional Caregivers

Module 1 - Welcome

Welcome:

Overview, Purpose, Transformational Training

Module 1

Covered in Module 1:Welcome

� Welcome/overview of training

� Medicare guidelines for volunteering

� Working with a hospice

� Intentions/housekeeping guidelines

� Purpose of training

� Who this training is for

� Teaching Transitions history

� Quietings/visualizations explanation




It Is Not Just Training, It’s Transformation

� Patty Burgess Brecht, Founder

� Gratitude for your participation

� Your time and talents

� New insights about death and dying

� Training may leave you a bit different than when you began

� Bonus: Can transform the living as well as the dying

Introduction and Orientation

� Overview of what to expect

� How to get the most our of this training

� Meets and exceeds training recommendations by HHPCO

� Certified End-of-Life Specialist (CEOLS) designation

� Rich, multi-media eLearning Platform

Introduction and Orientation

Learning Environment

� eLearning course delivery

� viewing options controlled by you

� Move through the material in order

� Lecture and experiential exercises

� Required and optional components

� Unlimited technical and customer support

Learning Environment




Follows National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Training Guidelines

� Visit www.nhpco.org (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization)

� Meets and exceeds training recommendations

� Refers to the NHPCO Volunteer Resource Manual

� Offering CORE training, plus additional supportive materials

� CORE training 20+ hours – mandatory and optional components

� When complete, Teaching Transitions grants 30 “Educational Merit hours",

and/or CEUs for specific professions. Certificate/Certification

� How would you like to serve?

Follows NHPCO Training Recommendations

Working With Your Hospice

� Directed to training by hospice, or self-directed

� 5% of patient care hours must be delivered by volunteers to meet federal

guidelines

� Your hospice = valuable resource

� Teaching Transitions is a vendor/partner with hospices

� Volunteer follows hospice policies and procedures

� Hospice requirements, policies and procedures vary among hospices

Working With Your Hospice

Housekeeping Guidelines

� Find a comfortable spot in your own personal setting

� Have snacks, drinks, Kleenex readily available

� Block out time for training

� Omit distractions

� Treat this training like a live event – no phones, emails, texting, etc.

� Create your ideal learning environment/sanctuary

Housekeeping Guidelines




Purpose of Training

To prepare the volunteer, personal or professional

caregiver with the education and experience to work

for the benefit of the dying and their loved ones ~

(to offer non-medical physical, emotional and

spiritual support) and to do so in a knowledgeable

and compassionate fashion

Purpose of Training

Types of Volunteers

� Two (2) main categories of volunteers

- Administrative (office assistance, administrative tasks)

- Direct patient and family contact

Types of Volunteers

Teaching Transitions Mission

Creating a new paradigm around

death, dying, grief and loss ~ where the old is gently

overlaid with fresh perspectives

to transform us all

Teaching Transitions’ Mission




Teaching Transitions’ Mission, cont’d…

� Doing Death Differently through transformative work

� Affecting mass consciousness around death, dying, grief and loss

� Championing individuals, volunteers, and healthcare professionals to

become “Agents of Change” in a death-deflecting society

� Learning about presence and BE-ing with the dying

Teaching Transitions Mission, Cont’d…

Spiral Symbology

� Cycles of Life

� No beginning or end…just a journey

� Look for our spiral collections throughout the course

Spiral Symbology

Who Is This Training For?

� Hospice volunteers

� Hospice staff

� Independent professional caregivers to enhance credentials

� Personal family caregivers

� Hospice referral sources (staff of SNF’s, hospitals, physicians, etc.)

� End-of-life doulas, coaches or guides

� Palliative caregivers

� Anyone drawn to work with the dying, elderly, and aging

Who Is This Training For?




What This Training Covers

� Hospice 101

� Confronting fears, beliefs, and limitations for doing this work

� End-of-life communication

� Clinical aspects of death and dying

� Emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of death and dying

� Grief, loss and bereavement

� Self-care and personal stress

� Spiritual and cultural diversity

� Legacy Life Review, visit etiquette and ethics

What This Training Covers

History of Teaching Transitions

� Result of personal and professional experience

� Professionally – worked in hospice for 17 years

� Personally – volunteer in hospice and palliative settings


� Learned the meaning of –

“We cannot add days to your life, but we can add

life to the days you have left”…

History of Teaching Transitions

The reason this company was

created:

Rona Mazer

1953 - 1999

This picture taken

approximately three (3)

months before Rona’s death

My “Why”…




Teaching Transitions History, cont’d…

� Dove in to learn more

� First a hospice volunteer, then trainer, then community educator

� Saw the need for a different kind of training for volunteers, personal and

professional caregivers

� Inward journey first, then outward

� So much honor in being with the dying and their families

� Getting to do what others cannot or will not

History of Teaching Transitions, cont’d…

Teaching Transitions History, cont’d…

� Developed workshops, training, ebooks and outreach

� Effort to open the conversation about death and dying

� Coming to believe that even laughter, joy and awe can be a part of the

death experience


� Getting to be a “witness to life, through the mystery of death”

� A “club” for the transformation it affords

Teaching Transitions History, cont’d…History of Teaching Transitions, cont’d…

Quietings

� Exploring the spiritual aspects of death and dying

� Recognizing the rituals and difficulties in becoming still

� Prayer, meditation, mindfulness, getting still – ways to quite the mind

� Too easy to get distracted

� Offer stopping points or “Quietings” as a place to take a break

� Remaining open and present

Teaching Transitions History, cont’d…Quietings/Visualizations/Mediations

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