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This Thursday - April 8, 2021 EKR’s Life, Death

This Thursday - April 8, 2021

EKR’s Life, Death and Transition Workshops: Externalization Process – Larry Lincoln, M. D. (USA)

Larry Lincoln, M.D., is a beloved medical director of TMC Hospice and team director of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ LDT workshops. Dr. Lincoln is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases and hospice/palliative care and has been the TMC Hospice medical director since its inception in 1991.

Dr. Lincoln had no idea how a near-forgotten childhood event had impacted his adult relationships and busy medical career. His life underwent dramatic changes as he gradually discovered that injured or neglected children often take revenge on the least dangerous person in their universe: themselves. And as a result, they banish the most vulnerable, frightened, and tender parts of themselves so that they are not hurt again.

In his book, Reclaiming Banished Voices, he fills the pages with stories and teachings that illustrate the consequences of this sabotage to our personal lives, our relationships, and society. With intellectual clarity and emotional poignancy, he also offers a technique to reclaim our full selves and live a connected and fulfilling life.

Drawing on his years of leading workshops with Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, as well as his vast experience as an infectious disease and hospice clinician, Dr. Lincoln provides multiple examples of the transformative power of compassion and love.

Classes in English, Português & Español.

✅ Tickets: link in bio!

Happy Easter! May this day be as beautifully you a

Happy Easter! May this day be as beautifully you are! ¡Felices Pascuas! Que este día sea tan especial y hermoso como tú. Love and peace from the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation

The EKR Foundation is very happy to welcome Cole I

The EKR Foundation is very happy to welcome Cole Imperi to our advisory council! ❤️ Cole Imperi is a dual-certified thanatologist, a two-time TEDx speaker, and one of America’s leading experts on death, dying, and grief.
She is best known for her work pioneering the fields of Thanabotany and Deathwork(which includes Death Companioning) and through her development of Shadowloss, Shadowlight and Dremains.
Cole is the founder of the School of American Thanatology, which has students from 19 countries across 10 timezones. Cole has worked as a chaplain-thanatologist in a jail, mortuary college professor, crematory operator, hospice volunteer, grief support group leader for children as young as 3 to adults, and served on the board of a green burial startup.

Session 3 - Collective Grief This Thursday - Apri

Session 3 - Collective Grief
This Thursday - April 1, 2021

Dr. Katie Eastman is a national grief/trauma therapist, speaker and consultant with ReCreate Coaching and Counseling in Anacortes, Washington.As a licensed psychotherapist, licensed social worker and life coach specializing in loss and transition, she supports individuals and communities before, during and after serious loss for the past thirty years. By allowing the pain of loss to serve as an opportunity for positive change she helps people of all ages reaffirm and recreate meaning by revealing the individual and collective skills, gifts and talents we each bring to the world.An engaging author and storyteller, she is known as an authentic force for good and love. Dr. Eastman was a student of Dr. Kübler-Ross and was deeply affected by her work throughout her career.

Courses are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Los cursos están disponibles en inglés, español y portugués.

Register today: link in bio!

"Many students of mine have asked how any one pers

"Many students of mine have asked how any one person can spend so much time in caring for "hopeless patients," what gives us the strength or conviction to do this kind of "sad work" over a long period of time. A few answers to some of these questions may help you to understand where our resources come from and how we cope with the problem of overinvolvement to the detriment of our own well-being.

It has to be emphasized that I also care for non-terminally ill patients, that I have a house, a family, a garden to take care of. I do not believe that anyone should work exclusively with dying patients five days a week, or nine hours a day. This work is extremely exhausting and emotionally draining, each of us has to find his own way of "recharging the battery" before we are too drained and unable to give of ourselves.

I find work with dying patients gratifying. Although it is sad many times, I don't find it depressing. It is important to state that I am not doing this work full time. I also see other, non-terminal patients, some psychiatric, and some not. I see patients who are getting well again and patients who have a chance to live. When you work with the families of leukemic children you find that many of these children go into remission, they are able to start nursery school, they are able to start first grade. You experience the happiness of children who are able to graduate from high school when they never expected to reach this goal, and when you see young girls who are able to fall in love and live every day at its fullest. You share not only the sad low points with the families of these dying children, but you are also able to share the highlights with the families. When you work with dying patients, you develop a meaningful relationship with the families of these patients. Many of the widows and widowers will contact me months and years after the death of a patient, and tell me about a planned wedding or a confirmation of a child. In this way I take part in every aspect of their living, and not only in the deaths in their families. The emotional balance naturally also comes from my own happy family, from having an understanding husband and two healthy ch

Loss and Grief in Compassionate Communities – Sm

Loss and Grief in Compassionate Communities – Smriti Rana (India)

Smriti Rana is the Consulting Psychologist at Pallium India and also Program Director of Pallium India’s Children’s Palliative Care Project. She interned briefly at Kidwai Memorial Hospital. She has provided psychological support to families facing chronic illness in various cities. Programmes and constituent projects are led by the Director – Programmes, Smriti Rana, who also manages donor relationships and heads the National Outreach team. She has a Masters of Science in Integrative and Holistic Psychological Counseling, with 18 years of experience in palliative care.

Join us this Thursday at 11am Eastern USA time.

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Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You

Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn’t shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don’t allow others to control the direction of your life. Don’t allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.

Online Grief and Palliative Care Education Series!

Online Grief and Palliative Care Education Series!

Classes start Thurs. 3/18 – 11am EST.

Our first session is Mourning and grieving in different cultures.

Courses are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Los cursos están disponibles en inglés, español y portugués.

Each class is recorded so that you can view later at your convenience. From March to May 2021. Every Thursday.

Learn more and register today: link in bio!

The KüblerRoss Change Curve®️ is based on a mo

The KüblerRoss Change Curve®️ is based on a model originally developed in the 1960s by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross to explain the grieving process. Since then it has been widely utilized as a method of helping people understand their reactions to significant change or upheaval.

Kubler-Ross proposed that a terminally ill patient would progress through various stages/phases of grief when informed of their illness. The basis of her idea was that grief was made up of various components- Grief was not a single monolithic feeling or experience. This was a revolutionary concept in the 1960’s. She further proposed that this model could be applied to any dramatic life changing situation and, by the 1980s, the Kübler-Ross Change Curve was a firm fixture in change management circles. The curve, and its associated emotions, can be used to demonstrate how performance is likely to be affected by the announcement and subsequent implementation of a significant change.

There are numerous versions of the curve in existence. It is the most popular change/loss model in existence and used by hundreds of major corporations around the world including: Apple, IBM, Boeing, Microsoft, The BBC, and others.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation Education Serie

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation Education Series 2021!

Join for us for this 11-part course with leading speakers in the field of grief. Each class is recorded so that you can view later at your convenience. From March to May 2021. Every Thursday. Classes start 3/18 – 11am EST. Tickets available on Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ekr-foundation-education-series-2021-compassionate-bereavement-approaches-tickets-142065336245?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

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Larry Lincoln is a palliative care physician and t

Larry Lincoln is a palliative care physician and technically responsible for the Texas Hospice in the United States. Graduated since 1973, he has a 40-year career dedicated to palliative care. He has been clinical director of the Staff of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross for over 20 years, leading the world-renowned 5-day Life, Death and Transition workshops, alongside Elisabeth. Dr. Lincoln is certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, and has a long career in community medicine, palliative and contemplative care. Larry will be speaking in session #4 of the new EKR Education series starting March 18th. Tickets available on Eventbrite- type in “EKR Foundation” in search box on EventBrite.com

“We are all looking for answers, trying to learn

“We are all looking for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life.” Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote 24+ books in 25 years including over 100 chapters and contributions in other books.

May you have a strong foundation When the winds of

May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift - Bob Dylan “Forever Young”

Age has a hand on the pen that writes the story...

Age has a hand on the pen that writes the story...

We are launching our next education series. We hav

We are launching our next education series. We have another set of amazing speakers starting March 18th > May 27th, every Thursday at 11am Eastern (EST). Tickets are available on EventBrite for $85 USD which includes all 11 presentations + you may review the sessions for several weeks after at no additional cost.
Speakers include: Liese Groot-Alberts (New Zealand), Smriti Rana (India), Dr. Kate Katie Eastman, Dr. Larry Lincoln, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, Dr. Ira Byock, Rodrigo Luz (Brazil), Cole Imperi, Dianne Gray, Wilka Roig (Mexico), Dr. William Worden, and an unpublished video by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (Switzerland). Tickets available on Eventbrite or on www.EKRFOUNDATION.org via our education page. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ekr-foundation-education-series-2021-compassionate-bereavement-approaches-tickets-142065336245

We are launching our next education series. We hav

We are launching our next education series. We have another set of amazing speakers starting March 18th > May 27th, every Thursday at 11am Eastern (EST). Tickets are available on EventBrite for $85 USD which includes all 11 presentations + you may review the sessions for several weeks after at no additional cost.
Speakers include: Liese Groot-Alberts (New Zealand), Smriti Rana (India), Dr. Kate Katie Eastman, Dr. Larry Lincoln, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, Dr. Ira Byock, Rodrigo Luz (Brazil), Cole Imperi, Dianne Gray, Wilka Roig (Mexico), Dr. William Worden, and an unpublished video by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (Switzerland). Tickets available on Eventbrite or on www.EKRFOUNDATION.org via our education page. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ekr-foundation-education-series-2021-compassionate-bereavement-approaches-tickets-142065336245

Please join our friends Michael Hebb & everyone at

Please join our friends Michael Hebb & everyone at EOL for their latest event! The monthly EOL + Cleveland Clinic Town Hall: End of Life Tech for Health Care. Join Michael Hebb, the founder of EOL and Dr. Silvia Perez-Protto, the Director of the Cleveland Clinic End of Life Center to explore the remarkable new tech offerings available to support end of life and critical care. February 25th – 1:30pm ET – No charge. We are thrilled to announce Koshin Paley Ellison, Oceana Sawyer and Torrie Fields as our presenters. They will be discussing their respective organizations New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, The Shore and Votive Health! Register here: https://collective.round.glass/end-of-life-tech-for-health-care

The only thing I know that truly heals people is u

The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
It is important that we experience unconditional love. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Perception & Acceptance “It is not the end of t

Perception & Acceptance
“It is not the end of the physical body that worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we are alive....to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a faced designed to conform to external definitions of who and why we are.”Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

In response to Covid-19 to make sure no one grieve

In response to Covid-19 to make sure no one grieves alone, David Kessler started a free support group for anyone who is grieving the death of a loved one. Today, Saturday at 1 pm PT /4 pm ET we are joined by photographer Ken Ross to discuss his mother, the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her work. If a loved one has died, join us. If you know someone who is struggling with grief please share this with them. We can at least hold each other’s hand virtually at www.Facebook.com/group/DavidKessler

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Classes start Thurs. 3/18 – 11am EST

Join for us for this 11-part course with leading speakers in the field of grief. Each class is recorded so that you can view later at your convenience!

Courses are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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