Using breath-body-mind integration techniques for the support and management of hard-to-reach symptoms in supportive and palliative care.
Following on from Kate’s previous excellent study days, we are delighted to offer a hybrid presentation with a limited number of spaces available in Oxford with live streaming for those unable to attend in person.
Course Description:
Helping patients to live well and holistic care are core remits of supportive and palliative care; common symptom clusters including breathlessness, anxiety and psycho-social-spiritual suffering require non-pharmacological support alongside best medical management.
Yet in an increasingly stretched and transactional system, how can we develop and sustain our ability to “do” holistic care for complex patients using our (complex) selves?
Drawing on practical skills from the Contemplative traditions (breathwork, body awareness, meditation) supported by Western psychological theory (modern attachment and affect regulation theory through a trauma-informed lens) and the best available evidence, we’ll explore how to integrate Breath-Body-Mind skills into clinical practice to support patients and families to the end of life and into bereavement.
Who is this course for?
This course is for health and allied professionals, therapists, bereavement and social workers and spiritual care providers interested in broadening their embodied skill set in working with patients and families challenged by life-limiting illness and loss. A particular strength of the course is the opportunity for multi-disciplinary group learning via discussion and practice in a supportive and safe environment. All professional backgrounds, faiths and perspectives welcome!
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Location: Oxford
Educational Credits:
+ Speakers
Kate Binnie is an HCPC registered music therapist, yoga and mindfulness teacher with 19 years’ experience working in supportive & palliative care settings. In 2016 she completed an MSc in palliative care at the Cicely Saunders Institute (KCL) funded by the Samuel Sebba Scholarship and is now a guest lecturer on the advanced psycho-spiritual care module. Kate is currently in the final year of her PhD using a realist approach to explore body-mind approaches for breathlessness-related distress in advanced disease at the Wolfson Centre for Palliative Care Research, Hull York Medical School funded by UKRI (I3). She teaches on the first UK PG certificate in Psycho-Spiritual Care at Oxford Centre for Spirituality and Wellbeing https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/oxcswell/, trains yoga therapists in palliative care, and runs community groups for people living with chronic and life-limiting illness.
Twitter: @holisticEoL
+ Course Programmes
The day will evolve dependent on participant need, but will
• Explore holistic approaches to understanding common and difficult symptom “clusters” which are acknowledged to be bi-directionally affected by emotion, experienced in the body (eg breathlessness-anxiety and pain-depression-fatigue) and influenced by a person’s context/lifeworld.
• Draw on practical skills from the Wisdom traditions (breathwork, body awareness, micro-meditations) supported by Western psychological theory (modern attachment and affect regulation theory through a trauma-informed lens) to understand how to integrate embodied relational skills into our clinical practice. These relational skills are of particular use for those for whom language or cognitive difficulties, physical disability/frailty, fatigue, pain and breathlessness mean that other forms of physical or psychological therapy may be challenging.
• Explore the evidence for these approaches – an emerging field supported by Kate’s current PhD research at https://www.hyms.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/wolfson
• Experientially practice embodied skills to support patients and families at times of stress/distress, promote closeness and wellbeing, and improve professionals’ confidence to rely on themselves as a vital clinical tool whilst remaining safe and whole (boundaries).
+ Course Aims
On the course we will:
• Explore holistic approaches to understanding common and difficult symptom “clusters” which are acknowledged to be bi-directionally affected by emotion, experienced in the body (eg breathlessness-anxiety and pain-depression-fatigue) and influenced by a person’s context/lifeworld.
• Draw on practical skills from the Wisdom traditions (breathwork, body awareness, micro-meditations) supported by Western psychological theory (modern attachment and affect regulation theory through a trauma-informed lens) to understand how to integrate embodied relational skills into our clinical practice. These relational skills are of particular use for those for whom language or cognitive difficulties, physical disability/frailty, fatigue, pain and breathlessness mean that other forms of physical or psychological therapy may be challenging.
• Explore the evidence for these approaches – an emerging field supported by Kate’s current PhD research at https://www.hyms.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/wolfson
• Experientially practice embodied skills to support patients and families at times of stress/distress, promote closeness and wellbeing, and improve professionals’ confidence to rely on themselves as a vital clinical tool whilst remaining safe and whole (boundaries).
