Registration open. Please register by 29 May 2023.
This two-day workshop provides participants with a unique opportunity to obtain a holistic understand of burnout, well as a true appreciation of self-care via an immerse experience with Mindful-Compassion Art Therapy (MCAT).
Registration open. Please register by 26 Jun 2023
The four-day course aims to develop participants’ theoretical and practical knowledge in delivering competent, evidence-informed holistic palliative care in any healthcare setting by enhancing their role as part of a multidisciplinary team.
There will be no course runs in 2023.
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
Next course run: 21 Sep 2023 PM
The programme involves i) 2-weeks of self-directed online study, where participants will be given access to online materials to study at their own pace, and ii) a 0.5-day virtual classroom session.
Next course run: 27 & 28 Jul 2023
As our population ages, more people will be developing chronic medical conditions which will progress and eventually lead to death. The challenges of managing a patient with advanced non-cancer conditions can be fairly different from caring for someone who is suffering from advanced cancer. The 2-day course will highlight these challenges and focus on palliative care approaches to help healthcare professionals manage non-cancer end-of-life care better.
Next course run: 14 & 15 Sep 2023
The interactive workshop aims to develop participants’ theoretical and practical knowledge in delivering competent, evidence-informed palliative care in advanced dementia.
Next course run: Tentatively 23 & 24 Nov 2023
This two-day professional workshop will provide participants with a unique opportunity to learn and experience a novel and clinically robust Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) for cultivating existential wholeness among terminally-ill patients and their families facing the end of life.
The next course run will be in 2024
Access to supportive care, palliative care and end-of-life care are essential for persons living with an advance illness. In this course, community health and social care professionals will be offered a foundational overview of psychosocial issues faced by their clients living across illness trajectories in the community, and consider their roles in providing holistic support.
2023 course run completed
The two-day course gives an overview and summary of the field of thanatology. It explores the social, cultural, psychological, legal, ethical, and spiritual issues raised by illness, dying, death and bereavement.