A one-day skill-intensive seminar led by Liese Groot-Alberts, where you’ll explore the constructs and frameworks of hope and learn to work with despair in the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual quadrants.
Venue: TBC
Hope is an intangible energy that is firmly based on life and expressed in human interaction. This seminar, “Facilitating Hope in Times of Despair,” explores how we can facilitate hope in the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual quadrants. It delves into the complex dynamics of hope and despair, providing tools and insights to help professionals navigate these challenging emotions.
Sitting with our patients or clients and allowing them to experience and share their hopelessness and despair is often challenging, yet it’s an essential part of the healing process. Being able to stay present and connected with them in their suffering can be very healing. This seminar will equip attendees with the skills to recognise and respond to signs of stress, overload, burn-out, and compassion fatigue, fostering a deeper understanding of self-awareness in their work with patients and clients.
Led by Liese Groot-Alberts, an internationally renowned public speaker, palliative care educator, and clinical supervisor with a passion for working with healthcare professionals and volunteers.
Acquire practical skills to diagnose and heal stress, overload, burn-out, and compassion fatigue, essential for healthcare professionals and caregivers.
Explore the constructs and frameworks of hope, learning to facilitate hope in physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual quadrants.
Engage in a highly experiential and interactive seminar that takes participants on a journey of self-discovery and transformation, supported by modular teaching frameworks and theory.
| Early Bird | $700 per pax |
| VWOs-Charities Capability Fund Training Grant | $220/pax |
| Community Care Training Grant | $70 per pax |
| Standard Fee | $800 per pax |
| VWOs-Charities Capability Fund Training Grant | $320/pax |
| Community Care Training Grant | $80 per pax |
All prices stated exclude GST.
**Up to 90% seminar fee funding for AIC approved organisations to be claimed directly from AIC. (Full payment is required from participants at the time of registration.)
For details and funding eligibility, please consult with your HR department. Kindly note that we, as the training provider, are unable to assist with inquiries related to this funding.
Liese Groot-Alberts was born in Fryslân, part of the Netherlands, is living in New Zealand and works internationally as a public and keynote speaker, palliative care educator, presenter of loss, grief and bereavement training and clinical supervisor for Healthcare Professionals.
In 1972 her eldest daughter, aged nearly 3, died suddenly 2 days after the birth of her son. Hope and despair, joy, and sorrow!
Out of this life-changing experience came her passion for working with healthcare professionals and volunteers. Over a period of many years, she worked with and for Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross as a workshop leader and staff member presenting workshops in New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Europe.
After Dr. Ross’ retirement, she has continued to develop her own workshop and has specialised training in trauma, loss, grief and bereavement, palliative care, as well as self-care for the career, resilience, spirituality, and working with difference, finding strength and hope in connectedness. She has conducted lectures and workshops in the USA, Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Singapore, Samoa, Zimbabwe and New Zealand.
In her presentations and workshops, she uses images, poetry, humour and music, as well as the sound theoretical underpinning of the material presented.