Metta : Cultivating Presence: Training Retreat In Compassionate End-Of Life Care

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End-of-Life Care Practitioner Program

Cultivating Presence: Six-Day Residential Training

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CULTIVATING PRESENCE: TRAINING RETREAT IN COMPASSIONATE END-OF LIFE CARE

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	Angeles Arrien, PhD (Honorary), Anthropologist, educator, author, and corporate consultant. Founder and president of the Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research, a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an Associate Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies. Author of several books including The Nine Muses: A Mythological Path to Creativity, The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary and Signs of Life.
	Ram Dass, Internationally recognized lecturer and beloved spiritual teacher. Best selling author of several books including Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying, Be Here Now, How Can I Help,* and Compassion in Action, One Liners: A Mini-Manual for the Spiritual Life. *Participation by telephone and internet only
	Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Zen Priest, Founder of Everyday Zen Foundation, former Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center. Author of nine volumes of poetry and several books including Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up, and Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms.
	Charles Garfield, PhD, Founder of Shanti Project, Clinical Professor, UCSF Medical School, Board Member C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Author of several books including Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb: Love and Caregiving in a Time of AIDS, Peak Performers, and Training Volunteers for Community Service.
	Rabbi Alan Lew, Former Spiritual Leader, Congregation Beth Shalom, Founder of Makor Or Center for Jewish Meditation. Author three volumes of poetry and several books including One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi and This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation.
	Frank Ostaseski, Founder and Director Metta Institute, Founding Director, Zen Hospice Project. Co-Director End-of-Life Care Practitioner Program. Author Saper Accompanare and the audio series Being a Compassionate Companion.
	Ange Stephens, MA, MFT, Psychotherapist specializing in working with people with life-threatening illness, former Clinical Director Cancer Support Community. Co-Director End-of-Life Care Practitioner Program.
	Frances Vaughan, PhD, Psychologist, Educator. Author of several books integrating psychology and spirituality, including Awakening Intuition, The Inward Arc: Healing in psychotherapy and spirituality, and Shadows of the Sacred. She is co-editor of Paths Beyond Ego and Gifts from A Course in Miracles. She was formerly on the clinical faculty of the University of California at Irvine, and has lectured and led workshops in transpersonal psychology around the world.

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