Challenging Conversations

I was on two days training at St.Christopher's Hospice

on 'Challenging Conversations in End of Life Care'

It was an excellent training. I am feeling quite overloaded now

and will have an early night as I have a light headache.

I was the only social worker among nurses and a doctor

but there was nice mixture of comments and views.

It is certainly is a very difficult area for professionals to discuss 

and it is whether we as professionals are able to contain the context. 

Furthermore, it is also about picking up the cues when 

people use symbolic terms and languages

when the 'D' word is so avoided in the Western world and

other parts of the world.

I will add more tomorrow!