Learning Opportunities for Individuals and Families
For over 30 years, Hospice Calgary has served Calgary and Area, offering palliative and hospice care, support during advanced illness, and grief counselling to patients and clients. Using our experiences and expertise, our educators provide learning opportunities designed to strengthen, engage, and equip our community. They share practical tools and offer resources to support professionals, community advocates, and individuals. Almost 2000 people a year benefit from our consultation, training, seminars, and accredited workshops.
Our Areas of Educational Focus
Advanced Illness + Palliative Care
Hospice Calgary offers counselling and support to those living with advanced illness and their close family members and friends of all ages. Our seminars provide participants with awareness, skills and knowledge.
Expert-led seminar topics include:
- Managing illness
- Facing changes when someone is dying
- Caregiver support
- Self-care
- Advanced care planning
- Grief during end-of-life
- Medical Assistance in Dying, process and understanding
- Spirituality
- Mindfulness practice
- Community response to dying and death
- Hospice Care
- Volunteer Training
Child & Family Grief
Hospice Calgary supports children aged 19 and under (and their families and friends) as they adjust to the changes in their lives when someone close to them is living with an advanced illness or has died. Our seminars and workshops offer tools and strategies for those grieving or supporting others.
Expert-led seminar topics include:
- How grief works
- Intro to child and teen grief
- Coping strategies for grief
- Talking to children about dying and death
- Parenting grieving children
- Grief after suicide
- Honouring the deceased
- First Responder training
- Community response to dying and death
Current Learning Opportunities
Our monthly education program, Dying To Know, is open to anyone interested in various topics related to death and dying. These interactive sessions help in preparing for end-of-life, offer strategies for staying resilient through challenging times, and help care partners become more confident in their roles.
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The Parent Lunch and Learn Series, led by the Children’s Grief Centre, provides parents and caregivers with brief, concrete, direct and accessible information as they navigate new situations with their grief and their children’s grief.
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