Started in 1969 as a mission of love to serve the underserved, Assisi Hospice is proud to celebrate its 55th year of Caring for Life by presenting the Assisi Learning Festival 2024 – a series of symposiums presented by various subject experts in palliative care. This series, which is offered free to participants as Assisi Hospice’s gift to the community, hopes to empower Singapore’s ILTC sector to do more and build a compassionate society.
Featuring Dr Aditi-Sethi, a US hospice physician and end-of-life doula who founded the Center for Conscious Living and Dying (CCLD) in Asheville to promote community supported end-of-life care, the Volunteer & Care Symposium will share her expertise on:
- Engaging the volunteer community to provide support for palliative patients
- Being present and journeying meaningfully with for those at end-of-life
- Supporting volunteers and caregivers in coping with grief and loss
Team Assisi will also be sharing their knowledge on:
- Building a Sustainable NODA Programme
- Impact of Culture & Religion in Palliative Care
- An Organisational Approach to Setting Up Grief & Bereavement Service to Support Caregivers and Volunteers.
This programme is supported by Community Care Manpower Development Awards (CCMDA).
In this workshop, the Assisi Clinical Pastoral Care team will focus on the delivery of spiritual care in healthcare settings and share their approach in the provision of spiritual care in Assisi Hospice.
Using the Jungian concept of the Wounded Healer, the team will also explore how individuals can be in touch with our own humanity, thereby offering this healing care to the patients whom we serve. There will be opportunities to network with other spiritual carers who journey with people facing serious illness and mortality. This session is suitable for all healthcare professionals.
In this symposium, the Assisi Allied Health team will provide an overview on the changing landscape for patients with serious illnesses in Singapore and showcase Assisi’s interdisciplinary approach in supporting this group of patients. We will also be sharing our experiences in managing challenging conversations and addressing spiritual concerns.
Symposium participants may also opt to join the experiential workshops later in the afternoon, which will be conducted by the art therapists and music therapists to find out how creative modalities can be powerful resources to enhance well-being and self-awareness. This session is only open to healthcare professionals.
The workshop will focus on the four main music methods: receptive, recreative, improvisational, and compositional. The facilitators, who are music therapists from different organisations, will demonstrate the music strategies of each method and explain how these music strategies can be effectively used to enhance the physical and emotional well-being of patients. It does not intend to replace the role of music therapy in palliative care setting, but to affirm the therapeutic use of music which can be utilised in the care of patients.
This workshop is offered free to participants as Assisi Hospice’s gift to the community. It is for healthcare professionals and decision-makers who are actively practising in clinical settings and are interested in incorporating music in their clinical practice to enhance patient outcome. No prior music knowledge is required.
