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SUMMARY:Understanding the Needs of the Dying – Free Clinician Training with David Kessler
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFree Conscious Business Event\nBeing with someone who is dying asks for something different from having the right answers. It calls for presence, sensitivity, and the willingness to see a person as fully alive while facing the realities of the end of life.\nUnderstanding the Needs of the Dying with David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE, offers practical education for helping clients bring hope, comfort and love to life’s final chapter.\nDrawing on Kessler’s decades of work with people at the end of life, the training examines core needs of the dying, deathbed visions, anticipatory grief, advance directives, cultural differences, ethical considerations, support for grieving children, and medical aid in dying.\nThe focus is educational and practical: how to approach difficult conversations, honor hope without reinforcing denial, recognize the emotional realities surrounding death, and navigate complex end-of-life decisions with discretion.\n\nRegister Here For Free\nThe Dying Don’t Need Us to Have Answers, They Need Us to Stay in the Room\n\n\n\nExplore This Free Event\nJump directly to the section that interests you.\n\n?Why Attend\n?Who Should Attend\n?What You’ll Learn\n?About Your Trainer\n?Frequently Asked Questions\n\nRegister Here For Free?\n\n\nPresence, Judgment & Compassionate Care\nWhy Attend “Understanding the Needs of the Dying”\n\nEnd-of-life care can bring questions that do not have simple answers. Professionals may need to help people and families navigate fear, hope, uncertainty, grief, changing physical needs, and difficult decisions while remaining attentive to each person’s wishes.\nDavid Kessler presents a structured approach to these moments, grounded in his work with dying people and their families. The training looks at how to support emotional expression, participation in care, hope, communication, and dignity without reducing the experience of dying to a checklist.\nYou will also examine areas that can be especially difficult to discuss, including deathbed visions, advance directives, ethics consultations, cultural differences, withdrawing care, assisted suicide, and the needs of children who are grieving.\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nFor Professionals Supporting People at the End of Life\nWho Should Attend\nThis training is designed for professionals who work with dying people, grieving families, or end-of-life decisions and want a clearer framework for responding to the emotional, clinical, ethical, and relational complexity of that work.\nThe material is especially relevant for people working in hospice, palliative care, mental health, medical settings, case management, discharge planning, and other roles where conversations about death, grief, advance directives, family needs, and cultural differences may arise.\n\nTherapists, counselors, and other mental health professionals\nHospice and palliative care professionals\nPhysicians and nurses\nSocial workers and case managers\nDischarge planners\nClergy and other professionals supporting people and families through end-of-life experiences\nProfessionals who want practical tools for difficult conversations about death and dying\nPeople whose work includes anticipatory grief, family support, or bereavement care\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nPractical End-of-Life Care Topics\nWhat You’ll Learn\nThe training begins with the needs of dying people and the families around them, then moves through practical questions that can arise across hospice, palliative care, mental health, and medical settings.\nYou’ll explore physical and emotional changes near the end of life, death-related sensory experiences, advance directives, anticipatory grief, support for children, ethics consultations, hope, cultural differences, and medical aid in dying.\nThe emphasis is on thoughtful clinical and relational judgment: understanding what may be happening, communicating with sensitivity, and supporting people and families without assuming that one approach fits every situation.\nHere’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:\n\nHow to recognize and respond to core needs of a dying person, including hope, emotional expression, and participation in care\nWays to prepare families for physical and emotional changes associated with impending death\nHow deathbed visions and near-death awareness may appear in end-of-life care\nConsiderations surrounding advance directives, code status, D.N.R., and allow-natural-death decisions\nHow anticipatory grief can shape the experience of patients, families, and care teams\nWays to prepare and support children who are facing a significant loss\nHow ethics committees may be used in difficult end-of-life situations\nApproaches to honoring hope without reinforcing denial\nHow cultural differences can affect communication, care, and family expectations\nClinical and ethical considerations related to withdrawing care, assisted suicide, and medical aid in dying\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nMeet Your Trainer\nAbout David Kessler\nDavid Kessler is an author and educator whose work centers on grief, loss, and the end of life. His experience includes supporting thousands of people on the edge of life and death and teaching physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about grief, trauma, and end-of-life care.\nHe is the author of six books, including Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, Visions, Trips and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die, and The Needs of the Dying. He also co-authored Life Lessons and On Grief and Grieving with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and You Can Heal Your Heart with Louise Hay.\nKessler is the founder of Grief.com and created Tender Hearts, an online grief support model. His work also includes volunteer and board service connected with Project Angel Food, The Farrah Fawcett Foundation, the Los Angeles Police, and the Red Cross.\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nEverything You Need to Know\nFrequently Asked Questions\nSelect any question below to reveal the answer.\nEvent Details\n\nIs this training right for me?\nThis training is designed for professionals who support dying people, grieving families, or end-of-life decision-making, including mental health, hospice, palliative care, medical, social work, case management, discharge planning, and clergy roles.\n\n\nIs this event really free?\nYes. Registration for Understanding the Needs of the Dying is offered at no cost.\n\n\nWhat will I learn during this training?\nThe training covers the needs of dying people, signs of impending death, deathbed visions, palliative care, hospice, advance directives, anticipatory grief, support for children, ethics consultations, hope, cultural differences, and medical aid in dying.\n\n\nWho is David Kessler?\nDavid Kessler is an author and educator focused on grief, loss, and end-of-life care. He has taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders, and has written several books on grief and dying.\n\nEnd-of-Life Care Topics\n\nDoes the training cover deathbed visions?\nYes. The training examines death-related sensory experiences and deathbed visions, including family coping, religion in these experiences, near-death awareness, and related clinical and palliative care research.\n\n\nWill advance directives and code status be discussed?\nYes. The training addresses physician orders for life-sustaining treatment, advance directives, D.N.R. and allow-natural-death approaches, and the impact of code status on the grieving process.\n\n\nDoes the training address anticipatory grief?\nYes. Anticipatory grief is included, with attention to hospice, palliative care, and mental health settings and ways professionals can help normalize the experience.\n\n\nWill I learn how to support children facing a loss?\nYes. The training includes tools for preparing a child for loss, supporting children around funerals, and recognizing why children can become overlooked in family grief.\n\n\nAre ethics and family disagreements covered?\nYes. The training explores how and when ethics committees may be used, how end-of-life team members can participate, and ways families may be supported during difficult ethics discussions.\n\n\nDoes the training discuss hope and miracles?\nYes. The training considers how professionals can honor hope and a family’s desire for miracles while avoiding approaches that reinforce denial.\n\n\nAre cultural differences included?\nYes. The training addresses how cultural differences can affect care of the dying and communication between healthcare providers and families.\n\n\nDoes the training address medical aid in dying?\nYes. The curriculum includes the realities of withdrawing care and assisted suicide, along with considerations related to patient and family requests for medical aid in dying within the beliefs and responsibilities of care settings and providers.\n\n\n\n\n\nBusiness Education Disclosure\nThe contents of this website/e-mail and this event are for general informational and educational purposes only. They are not legal, tax, accounting, financial, employment, compliance, clinical, or other professional advice. 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