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Companion Arts will be launching new programs for caregivers in upcoming months; if you'd like to be notified when these begin, please subscribe to our free Care For the Journey newsletter.

In response to the growing need for healthcare support at a time when staff shortage and burnout are reaching critical levels, Care for the Journey is designed to serve the heart of healthcare staff (with particular applications for hospice and palliative care staff), providing both inspiration and practical wisdom to sustain one's practice.

Developed with input from a national advisory circle of healthcare educators, the program delivers essential information and skills in a new experiential format, offering an 'integrative knowledge' approach to learning. At its core is an audio resources from experts on the practice of compassionate service, designed by the creators of the award-winning music & message resources, Graceful Passages and Care for the Journey.

Providing inspiration and experiential education, strengthened by the recorded wisdom of leading healthcare professionals, audio listeners explore acceptance of human limitations in medicine as a gateway to greater understanding and connection between practitioners and patients.

Care for the Journey presentations and workshops presented by our trained facilitators, are available through local healthcare systems nationwide:

  • To support the use of the audio resource as a catalyst for learning and stress release
  • To support local educators in utilizing the resource in their curriculum
  • To offer stand-alone programs to strengthen staff capacity for service by reconnecting with original intention, accessing the human dimension of healing, cultivating the quality of presence, selfcare, the art of listening, and facing personal and professional issues around death and dying.

Two audio resources, Care for the Journey: Messages and Music for Sustaining the Heart of Healthcare, and Care for the Journey: The Leadership Edition are used in an integrative knowledge-based curriculum, with exercises and practices for strengthening one's understanding and application of the messages.

For more information contact Susan Osborne, Companion Arts’ Executive Director at Susan@companionarts.org.

   


Care for the Journey Retreat

Care for the Journey retreat in the Chicago area hosted by Wellness Place, supporting people with cancer and those who care for them. Retreat participants included nurses, social workers, chaplains, therapists, and others. An ongoing Care for the Journey support group continues.