Providing Massage in Hospice
Care
An Everflowing Resource
by Irene Smith
Includes Book, DVD and 2-CD
Set
This ground-breaking multimedia presentation
allows you to participate directly in a discussion of this
vitally important topic. Internationally acclaimed author
and educator Irene Smith uses book, video, audio CDs to
share her experience with unprecedented clarity, understanding
and compassion. Whether to prepare yourself personally
or as a basis for group exploration, this versatile package
contributes a depth of wisdom and education that supports
anyone working with the seriously ill or the dying.
Educators...this package includes everything you need to
present a class on this important material!
Multimedia
Kit
bk/keflo
$84.95 ea
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Book
Only
bk/eflo
$34.95 ea
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DVD
Only
v/eflo
$34.95 ea
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Multimedia Kit Includes:
Book — Providing
Massage in Hospice Care
(75 pages; also sold separately)
This manual represents 21 years of experience in developing
protocols, skills and coping strategies for facilitating
body work with dying persons. “I have assembled the
information in this manual in hopes that interest in this
field will be nurtured and supported in the healthiest
way possible.” Includes: An Introduction
to the Business of Dying; Potential Outcomes for the Use
of Touch in Palliative Care; Precautions and Guidelines;
Quality Assurance; The 5 Layers of Skill for Creating a
Safe Container for the Touch Relationship; Everflowing
Touch Techniques and Body Mechanics; Side Positioning of
the Client; Working in a Client’s Home; and The Emotional
Impact of Working With the Dying; and Resources Guide.
DVD — Christmas with Chuck
(21 minutes; also sold separately)
Irene Smith invites the audience to experience her last visit with a dying client.
This powerful slide presentation put to video embodies the emotional issues that
often arise when working with dying persons.
CD1 — Presentation
(28 min.) In a discussion
with workshop participants including bodyworkers,
healthcare professionals and people with AIDS, Irene addresses
the component of healing in the dying process and the practitioner’s
relationship to suffering.
CD2 — Group Sharing (60 min.) After
a group viewing of Christmas with Chuck participants
share their experience of the video, including deeply personal feelings
concerning the deaths of loved ones and clients.
To
add value to this unique material, study at home
for 10 CEU credits! For more information
about the home study course, visit Preparation
for Providing Massage in Hospice. |
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From
the depths of her extensive personal experience, Irene
Smith has crafted a well organized, articulate, and
thoroughly informative practical guide and inspirational
resource. Providing Massage in Hospice Care is an
invaluable tool and truly a great gift to the Hospice
and Massage Communities and to anyone caring for individuals
approaching the transition we call death.
—Dawn Nelson, author, From the Heart Through
the Hands: The Power of Touch in Caregiving
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I am filled with gratitude for you and Chuck Buck
for your narrated slideshow/DVD. I just presented
it in class this morning and it facilitated some
very important reflection and also allowed feelings
to surface that might not have done so without
a very visual, tangible image and story. I felt
moved to light a candle for Chuck— it’s
the first time I have done that. I as watch him
and you again and again with different groups of
students, I find it touches me more and more deeply.
I thought that I might get desensitized, but actually
the opposite is true. Deepest appreciation & best
wishes to you.
—
Julie McGuinness, Instructor
National Holistic Institute, San Francisco Campus
Christmas with Chuck has timeless lessons for
bodyworkers who work with the ill or the dying.
In this video Irene Smith speaks to aspects of
the practitioner’s experience that are rarely
addressed. I can hardly wait to share it with my
own students. —Gayle MacDonald, M.S., L.M.T.,
Author of Medicine Hands: Massage Therapy for People
with Cancer
"Irene
Smith has provided in-service training for the massage
and bodywork interns at The Institute for health
and Healing at California Pacific Medical Center
for the last three years. Her mindfullness, presence
and skills provide a rich container for students
to feel safe, learn, and have a positive bodywork
experience." —Antonia Creazzo, Clinical
and Program Integrative Massage Supervisor, Institute
for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical
Center, Massage Internship Program; San Francisco,
CA
"Irene taught us practical ways to be present
with our patients through touch. Perhaps more importantly,
Irene reminded us of the importance of listening
to ourselves in the midst of suffering, and how to
utilize that listening as a tool to be responsive
to those whom we hope to help. I recommend Irene's
program enthusiastically." —Scott Rome,
MD, Medical Director, California Pacific Regional
Rehabilitation Center, California Pacific Medical
Center, Rehabilitation Center; San Francisco, CA
In my work as a
medical/surgical registered nurse and in my hospice
volunteer practice, I often only have one brief encounter
with a client. Everflowing has allowed me to give
these clients a simple yet effective expression of
concern that lets them experience the care that surrounds
them. —Raymond Sigrist, Hospice Volunteer,
R.N.
As a massage therapist
with a primarily geriatric/hospice clientele,
I often felt sore, tired and emotionally depleted. Irene's
classes provided me with tools, techniques, skills
and personal practices which I use to continually
enhance my comfort at the chair or bedside, to
revitalize my physical energy and to process the emotional
impact of my chosen work. —Maureen M. Trilsch,
C.M.T., Hospice Practitioner
Everflowing touch
is a tremendous uplifting feeling. It's the body,
mind and spirit revitalized. Everflowing touch has
made me feel like a whole person again.
—Janice, Hospice Client |
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