Topic Highlights Include:

• How to work more compassionately and intelligently with the dying
• Tools for caregiving and caregivers
• Alternative approaches to understanding life and death
• How to restore a sense of sacredness to the dying process
• How to promote wise relationships in accompanying the dying
• Special tools and techniques for end-of-life doulas
• How to nurture the potential for psycho-spiritual transformation in the dying process
• The effects of compassionate presence at the end of life
• End of life planning
• Cross cultural rituals of grief and loss
• Skills in attending those in the death, dying, loss and bereavement processes

Who Should Attend

The Art of Dying certificate program can be of great benefit to those working in hospices, nursing homes and other health-care settings, as well as for students, counselors, social workers, teachers, clergy members, psychologists, end of life doulas and others who want to enter or broaden their work in the burgeoning field of death and dying. It is also appropriate for anyone with a sincere interest in this profound topic.

Students in the Integrative Thanatology program will complete their coursework entirely online. With personalized instruction, students will be supported throughout the program by our faculty and staff to not only deepen and expand their personal understanding of death and dying but also to forge connections and create networks that could be of great help in their professional lives going forward.

CLASS SCHEDULE:

2021

• Introduction to Integrative Thanatology – Catharine DeLong
  Friday, January 15, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
  
  
• The Inner Path of Dying – Jan Booth, MA, RN
  Saturday, January 16, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
  
  
• Mapping the Journey: Re-Envisioning Decisions About the End of Life
  Leslie Blackhall, MD
  Sunday, January 17, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
  
  
• A Buddhist View of Death – Dr. Andrew Holecek
  Thursday, January 28, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST
  
  
• After-Death Care and Home Funerals – Olivia Bareham
  Saturday – Sunday, February 6-7, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
  
  
• The Last Great Act of Love: End of Life Planning – Alua Arthur, JD
  Wednesday, March 10, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
  
  
• Cultivating the Doula Heart – Francesca Arnoldy
  Friday, March 12, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
  Saturday, March 13, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm; 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST
  
  
• The Effects of Compassionate Presence: Being with Non-Communicative Patients – Jeanne Denney
  Sunday, March 14, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
  
  
• Exploring the Grief Journey: Cultural, Familial and Personal Dimensions
  Rabbi Simcha Raphael, PhD
  Friday, April 16, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
  Saturday, April 17, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST; 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST 
  
  
• Transition by Design: Planning an Inspired & Intentional Funeral
  Amy Cunningham
  Sunday, April 18, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
  
  
• Psychedelics for Palliative Care and the Treatment of End-of-Life Existential Distress – Anthony Bossis, PhD
  Thursday, April 22, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST
  
  
• Inviting the Wisdom of Death Into Life – Frank Ostaseski
  Wednesday, May 12, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
  
  
• The Dying Child: End of Life Issues in Pediatrics
  Kat Kowalski MDiv. BCC; Emily Johnson MSN, CRNP; & Cora Welsh, CCLS, MA
  Saturday, May 15, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
  
  
• African American Grief and Loss – Tashel Bordere, PhD, CT
  Sunday, May 16, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
  
  
• Music as Medicine at the End of Life – Catharine DeLong
  Saturday, June 12, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
  
  
• Surviving the Aftermath of Suicide – Karen Wyatt, MD
  Sunday, June 13, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm EST
  
  
• The Many Paths of Grief – Karen Wyatt, MD
  Sunday, June 13, 2:30 – 5:00 pm EST
  
  
• Student Capstone Weekend
  Saturday & Sunday, June 26 – 27, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST

CEU’S AVAILABLE

Integrative Thanatology Certificate
Seminar Code: NYOC-031
Presenter(s): Dr. L. Blackhall, A. Holecek, Ph.D., K. Wyatt, MD, S. Raphael, Ph.D., A. Bossis, Ph.D., and T. Bordere, Ph.D., CT, et al
Date(s): 1/16/21, 1/17/21, 1/28/21, 2/6/21, 2/24/21, 3/10/21, 3/12/21, 3/14/21, 4/16/21, 4/18/21, 4/22/21, 5/15/21, 5/16/21, 6/12/21 and 6/13/21
Metro: Live Interactive Online Webinar

Pricing Information:
Continuing Education Credits (74.5) $40.00
Please note this fee is for the CEU certificate only in addition to the program fee – $40.00
For eligible professions and to purchase the CEUs click HERE.
CEU certificates will be eligible for download following the course completion at www.ceuregistration.com

The course content is suitable for all levels: Introductory, Beginning, Advanced.

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

Refund & Cancellation Policy – click HERE. For questions or concerns, contact registration@opencenter.org.

THIS PROGRAM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. CEs ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE FOLLOWING ELIGIBLE PROFESSIONS:

• Psychoanalysts
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Counselors
• Creative Arts Therapists
• Educators
• Nurses