The Cedar Tree Institute in cooperation with Trillium House, Lake Superior Hospice, and UP Home Health and Hospice, Marquette county presents:

Janus Project Seminar 2020

September 11, 2020

Dying as We Have Lived

Hope, Fear, Transition

Perspectives on care-giving at the End of Life for Hospice, Medical Staff, Volunteers, and Social Workers.

Friday, September 11th
10 am – 2 pm
Presque Isle Park Pavillion, Marquette, Michigan

In acknowledgement of COVID-19 and recommendations of the CDC, this training experience will be limited to ten persons. Social distance will be utilized, face masks will be required on entering the Park Pavillion. If possible, this training will be held outdoors, under the shelter roof of the Pavilion to ensure maximum ventilation.

Lunch will be provided.

FRIDAY:September 11th

9:45-10:00 a.m. – Registration: Presque Isle Pavilion
10:00-10:45 a.m. – Presentation #1 (Magnuson) Perspectives on “The Five Invitations,” 2017 by Frank Ostaseski, Director San Francisco Zen Hospice
11:00-12 noon – Presentation #2 (Grossman) Management of Terminal Delirium and Palliative Sedation
12:00-12:45 p.m. – Lunch
12:45-1:45 p.m. – Presentation #3 (Dehlin) Pathophysiology at the End of Life: How We Die
1:45-2:00 p.m. – Reflections

Seminar Focus:

Identifying skills to assist patients in finding meaning in navigating emotional and medical challenges
Understanding and appreciating the physical challenges facing the dying patient
Psychological, emotional and spiritual dimensions of hope and meaning for those facing serious, long-term illness

Facilitators and Presenters:

- Dr. Michael Grossman, MD – Hospice Medical Director, UPHH
- Jennifer Dehlin, MD – Medical Director, Lake Superior Hospice
- Jon Magnuson, MSW, ACSW – The Cedar Tree Institute

Registration:

Workshop Cost:

This workshop is provided as a gift to the Hospice Community during these challenging times of pandemic, 2020.

“Dying is inevitable and intimate. I have seen ordinary people at the end of their lives develop profound insights and engage in a powerful process of transformation that helped helped them to emerge as someone larger, more expansive, and much more real than the small, separate selves they had previously taken themselves to be.

This is not a fairy tail happy ending that contradicts the suffering that came before, but rather a transcendence of tragedy…

I have witnessed a heart-opening occoring in not only people near death, but also their care-givers. They discovered a profound trust in the universe and the reliable goodness of humanity that never abandoned them, regardless of the suffering they encountered.

If that possibility exists at the time of dying, it exists hear and now.”

Frank Ostaseski

JANUS PROJECT

In 1999-2000 a group of physicians, medical specialists, clergy and social workers met together for a training program sharing their experiences providing medical care for end-of-life patients.

Initially funded by a grant from the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Foundation and coordinated by the Cedar Tree Institute, this project set into motion a framework for 17 ensuing summer seminars and 15 winter symposiums. More than 250 physicians, nurses and hospice workers from across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan have participated.

These training programs are intentionally shaped by Mind/Body experiences of hiking, Taiji, kayaking, cross-country skiing, and small-group dialogue.

Guest presenters have joined us from Wisconsin, Virginia, Texas, Colorado, Washington and Massachusetts.

Drs. Mike Grossman and Larry Skendzel, medical directors for Marquette County’s two hospices, work alongside Jon Magnuson, a social worker and clergyman, shaping the Janus Project’s unfolding vision.

Janus refers to the Greek god of thresholds, gates & doorways.