Individual Counseling
Dale Borglum offers counseling services either in person or via telephone or via Skype. This counseling can focus on end-of-life issues and/or on the area of inner work/spiritual healing/meditation/the interface where our psychology limits our spiritual progress. Fully realizing the unity of our humanity and our divinity is the core of this work. Please feel free to email info@livingdying.org to explore the suitability of this work for you or to set up an appointment . Dale’s counseling is by fee on a sliding scale basis.
Our Core Mission
The core work of the Living/Dying Project is healing, healing of body, mind, and spirit, healing that is inspired and motivated by the preciousness of human life and by the fact that we will all die but we do not know when. For anyone confronting a life-threatening illness or caring for someone with a critical illness, finding conscious and compassionate emotional and spiritual support for deep healing is essential. For those of us who are not facing a life-threatening illness or caring for some who is, can our mortality and the preciousness of life inspire us also to plunge fully into this work? Using wisdom gathered from decades of guiding the dying, from intensive meditative and devotional practices, and from study of how our psychological development often limits the fruits of our spiritual practice, we offer face to face, telephone and internet based opportunities for deep exploration and manifestation of healing. The map of the healing path that we use is not a shortcut, but it avoids the detours and roadblocks that are common for the modern seeker. We are all caregivers and we are all seekers of healing.
Recent and Upcoming Events
January 16
Dale will be facilitating Jack Kornfield's Monday night class
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center,
7PM, Woodacre CA
A Practical Guide to Healing Workshop
January 28, 9AM to 5PM and 29, 2PM-5PM,
Berkeley CA
For details click here
Teleconference with Ram Dass and Dale Borglum
Love and Death
Our bodies and our minds die. In our heart lives the deathless. Can our devotion prepare us for death and can our the certainty of our death inspire us to open our hearts? Surrender to the depths of the heart. Connect to that within of us which does not die, to that which we all share.
March 11, 2012 - 1PM
For Details, Click Here
Workshop on Conscious Dying
Ram Dass, Bodhi Be, and Dale Borglum
Maui HI
April 14, 2012
Toads sit like noted immortals
at the edge of the water,
They just like a dip every once in a while
sing their heads off at night. What a racket!
In the peeling old pool a couple
of hundred gallons of lively swamp,
an oasis for the dispirados, bees, bats,
toads and frogs who think
they can catch liberation
like a passing dragon fly.
A lone bat swooping over the inviting green ooze.
They sing the Mosquito Sutra these
Colorado River Toads with big blue earrings.
Their hearts wide open.
© Stephen Levine, 2011
Not only is another world possible,
she is on her way.
On a quiet day,
I can hear her breathing.
~Arundhati Roy
she is on her way.
On a quiet day,
I can hear her breathing.
~Arundhati Roy
Open Circle
The focus of Open Circle is to respond to the opportunities for transformation and healing that critical illness offers - to include the possibilities of spiritual awakening, conscious dying, remarkable remission, and freedom, without avoiding the physical and emotional needs that illness presents. Opening to this investigation, we have the opportunity to go beyond attachment, contraction, and denial - entering the path to healing.
The focus of Open Circle is to respond to the opportunities for transformation and healing that critical illness offers - to include the possibilities of spiritual awakening, conscious dying, remarkable remission, and freedom, without avoiding the physical and emotional needs that illness presents. Opening to this investigation, we have the opportunity to go beyond attachment, contraction, and denial - entering the path to healing.
Each client is matched with a trained volunteer who meets with the client on an ongoing basis. Volunteers meet in support groups and receive ongoing training. They are encouraged to have a contemplative spiritual practice to nurture their work with clients.
We serve clients at all stages of illness, from diagnosis to recovery or death. Our intention is to be together with awareness, compassion and empowerment.
Ongoing Groups
Recently Dale Borglum began to facilitate small ongoing groups, 9 persons maximum, called Healing at the Edge in Sebastopol Tuesday afternoon 4-6 and Tuesday evening 7-9 and in Berkeley on Monday evening 7-9. Another group has recently begun in Marin Wednesday evening 7-9. CEUs are available. Each group session consists of a guided meditation, check-in, short talk by Dale, and then group and individual inquiry and processing. Because these Healing at the Edge groups will be small and on-going, members will keep having the opportunity to find meditation, devotional, and energy practices that are ideally suited for each group member to make real inner change, taking into account which experiences are currently arising in that person’s meditation and life. Together the group will explore how our emotional patterns, our experiences during meditation and our life situations all point directly to those inner practices which are being called for next and what these practices then reveal in our daily lives.
Recently Dale Borglum began to facilitate small ongoing groups, 9 persons maximum, called Healing at the Edge in Sebastopol Tuesday afternoon 4-6 and Tuesday evening 7-9 and in Berkeley on Monday evening 7-9. Another group has recently begun in Marin Wednesday evening 7-9. CEUs are available. Each group session consists of a guided meditation, check-in, short talk by Dale, and then group and individual inquiry and processing. Because these Healing at the Edge groups will be small and on-going, members will keep having the opportunity to find meditation, devotional, and energy practices that are ideally suited for each group member to make real inner change, taking into account which experiences are currently arising in that person’s meditation and life. Together the group will explore how our emotional patterns, our experiences during meditation and our life situations all point directly to those inner practices which are being called for next and what these practices then reveal in our daily lives.
Mission Statement
The Living/Dying Project offers conscious and compassionate support in the spirit of mutual exploration to those facing life-threatening illness, to their caregivers, to those facing life's most difficult situations, and to anyone committed to spiritual transformation.
The Living/Dying Project offers conscious and compassionate support in the spirit of mutual exploration to those facing life-threatening illness, to their caregivers, to those facing life's most difficult situations, and to anyone committed to spiritual transformation.
Imagine facing death
without fear.
Imagine using
a life-threatening
illness as an opportunity
for spiritual awakening.
Imagine approaching
the unknown with
an open heart.
We often resist change
as a natural part of life.
Strength and healing
can be found in life’s
most difficult situations.
Spiritual Support
The Living/Dying Project offers spiritual support for people with life-threatening illness and for their caregivers. We teach caregiving as work on oneself, compassion, meditation, spiritual healing, and conscious dying. The Living/Dying Project offers spiritual counseling, end of life care, compassionate caregiving and tools for healing. The core of this work is healing in the context of life-threatening illness and healing oneself as a caregiver, not just trying to create a "good death." We also feel the imperative to passionately work to heal through education the collective denial of death that is at the root of fundamental imbalances and divisions in Western society. Healing this collective wound is the most direct path to eliminating hunger, homelessness, destruction of our environment, and abuse of political power. Imagine how different our world would be if everyone knew in their heart that they and their children were going to die and they didn't know when, that life is deeply precious.
The Living/Dying Project offers spiritual support for people with life-threatening illness and for their caregivers. We teach caregiving as work on oneself, compassion, meditation, spiritual healing, and conscious dying. The Living/Dying Project offers spiritual counseling, end of life care, compassionate caregiving and tools for healing. The core of this work is healing in the context of life-threatening illness and healing oneself as a caregiver, not just trying to create a "good death." We also feel the imperative to passionately work to heal through education the collective denial of death that is at the root of fundamental imbalances and divisions in Western society. Healing this collective wound is the most direct path to eliminating hunger, homelessness, destruction of our environment, and abuse of political power. Imagine how different our world would be if everyone knew in their heart that they and their children were going to die and they didn't know when, that life is deeply precious.
Questions and Answers
Send your living/dying questions to us at info@livingdying.org and look for an answer in this space.
Send your living/dying questions to us at info@livingdying.org and look for an answer in this space.
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