| The Touch of
Compassion, Empowering the Caregiver workshop
is a ground
breaking workshop designed to educate physicians, nurses, home health
aides, homemakers and nursing assistants about the power of appropriate
compassionate touch in their delivery of personal care to patients.
This workshop has been
distinguished by Women Healing Women of the Center for the Study
of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School as an initiative worthy of
development and sponsorship. The workshop met
rigorous requirements, exemplifying a project in which women healers are
taking a leadership role in promoting health.
A Workshop for Home Health Aides, Homemakers, and Nursing Assistants Sponsored by The Women Healing Women Project, Harvard Divinity School.
This workshop will educate Home Health Aides (HHAs), Homemakers, and
Nursing Assistants (CNAs, NA s) about “compassionate touch” in their
delivery of personal care to patients. This training will help these
important caregivers understand and experience the power of their
presence and their touch in the care of their patients. They will be
encouraged and empowered to view themselves as an important asset within
their patients’ health care teams.
The goals of this workshop are:
- To empower caregivers to recognize the innate healing abilities
they already possess
- To educate caregivers to experience human connection through safe
and appropriate touch.
- As a result of this caring and appropriate touch, it is expected
that patients will enjoy a positive nurturing experience, will feel less
isolated, and will feel involved and encouraged in their own healing
processes.
In this workshop, participants will explore different types of touch,
both on and off the body, and will learn simple awareness techniques
that enhance their abilities to support those in illness and pain. The
leader(s) will provide in-depth information on the body’s natural energy
centers and will focus on developing compassion for oneself and others.
We want to stress that this training is not intended to add to the
burden of work already faced by caregivers. It is meant to nurture and
bring out their innate healing abilities. In our experience, this
training provides great benefits to participants’ personal as well as
professional lives.
This workshop is not intended to add
to the burden of work already faced by caregivers. But rather, to
nurture and bring out their innate healing abilities.
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