Stories Interrupted: Weaving Creativity, the Sacred and Meaning at the End of Life

Join us in an experiential session that brings an interdisciplinary approach to the crossroads of creativity, the sacred and meaning-making at the end-of-life. Explore theories of creativity that support finding the threads of spirit and hope in the face of loss and death. Experience and imagine the use of expressive tools to weave a tapestry of the patient's inner life into meaningful closure, relationship and peace. Gain an awareness of the "Holding Environment" and how to offer a sense of living creatively for the patient in order to bring about connections to the sacred, self, important others and wholeness. Discover tools that social workers, chaplains, volunteers, aides, allied therapists and nurses can use as a team to improve patient's and families' ability to create their "last chapter" with more clarity, peace and meaning.