Day 7: GRIEF, APPLICATIONS (Education hours 8.5)
Yoga
Early-morning session: Reflective practice: Contemplating priorities
Morning session: Grief
Debrief: Contemplating priorities reflective practice
Yoga
Councils: Exploring grief: Patients, clinicians, family
Afternoon session topics: Application of training in institutional settings
Exploring applications: Using the four transformative areas of clinician, patient, community,
institution
Reflective practice: Mindfulness practice
Evening session: Councils: Completions and commitments
Day 8: CONCLUSION: (EDUCATION HOURS 2.0)
Yoga
Early-morning session: Reflective practice: Open presence
Morning session: Large group council and concluding ritual, collecting evaluations, giving
certificates.
The G.R.A.C.E. Intervention
THE G.R.A.C.E. intervention was created as a key technique to help clinicians develop a way to
foster compassion in the process of caring for their patients. It is included here as an example of a
core contemplative intervention used in the BWD training.
The first version of the G.R.A.C.E. process was developed for clinicians in the end-of-life care field
during a program I was teaching at a state hospice. Since that time, the G.R.A.C.E. intervention
has been applied by clinicians, therapists, chaplains and social workers as a means to engender
compassion as they engage in clinician/patient interactions. The G.R.A.C.E. approach is based on
the Halifax A.B.I.D.E. Model of Compassion (see
in this volume). G.R.A.C.E. is a
mnemonic device that can aid a clinician in remembering the steps to cultivate compassion, as he
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