Creative Responses in Hospice and Palliative Care, Refresher Day London and Middlesex 



A Refresher Day in Hospice Palliative Care for London, Middlesex
of special interest to family physicians, registered nurses, personal support workers, social workers, spiritual care providers, nurse practitioners, case managers, therapists, pharmacists, health care students



"Awakening the Senses...a Creative Response"



Wednesday, October 17, 2007



8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.


to be held at



Stoneridge Inn, London, Ontario 
Presenters: 
"Living Stories of Hope and Change"

Cheryl McLean (BA Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario, M.A. Fine Arts, CAT, Concordia University, Montreal), is a passionate advocate for the creative arts in research and practice. She has over 25 years experience in communications in its many and diverse forms, including strategic marketing and communications planning, magazine and internet publishing, adult education and training as well as writing, acting and performing original research based "ethnodrama." Cheryl McLean worked in gerontology and mental health as a group therapist from 200l to 2003 with Maimonides Jewish Geriatric Hospital and The Rene Cassin Institute of Social Gerontology of Quebec and wrote the original script for the ethnodrama "Remember Me for Birds" a solo performance about aging, mental health and autonomy based on clients' true stories. Cheryl has performed health based research for hundreds of academics and health and social service professionals at universities, health organizations, medical schools and national conferences in Canada and the U.S. including; The National Association of Drama Therapy Conference, Rhode Island, The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, King's University College, University of Western Ontario, London and McGill Interdisciplinary Geriatric Seminar, McGill University Medical School, Montreal. She facilitates the CCAHTE Journal  sponsored day training sessions, "Integrating the Creative Arts in Healthcare" held each spring and fall at The Windermere Manor, London, Ontario. Cheryl is Founder and Publisher of CCAHTE Journal http://www.cmclean.com the Canadian based international and interdisciplinary peer reviewed open access journal of The Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education, accessible to subscribers worldwide and leading universities, medical schools and health organizations and the CCAHTE Journal BLOG "Crossing Borders" http://www.ccahtecrossingborders.blogspot.com  She is a frequent lecturer and presenter at universities and health conferences speaking about progressive developments in the creative arts in research, action and practice in health, training and education and will be teaching the course "Creative Responses to Death and Bereavement" at The University of Western Ontario in London, in 2008.
 
 "Your Tree, My Tree..a Way of Being Together"


Wanda Sawicki


Wanda has a passion for spirit-filled living which expresses itself in art making, storytelling, writing and walking pilgrimage. A visual artist, she has a Canadian exhibition record dating from 1977. As an Art Therapist, with thirteen years experience, Wanda enjoys facilitating creative therapeutic expression in individuals and groups. She specializes in areas of acculturation, life losses and change and spirituality.




"People and Plants: Engaging the Mind"


Marilyn Cox


Marilyn is a horticulturist with an appreciation for the social, spiritual, physical and emotional aspects of gardening. She trained as a horticultural technician then pursued a degree in Sociology accompanied by certificates in Thanatology and Horticultural Therapy. She operates a nursery north of London and is an assistant for the Bereavement Ontario Network.


As a volunteer with hospice and by working with bereavement groups she has witnessed first hand the healing capacity of nature and gardening projects. Marilyn is involved with a network of horticultural therapists and bereavement professionals and is continually learning about the successes and pitfalls of incorporating horticultural therapy into programs for the dying and
bereaved. 
Information and inquiries about this event contact:
Ann Sabine
519-668-2997 Ext. 1453




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