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.
Growing older I love the quiet that used to
disturb me. I have distance on my life.
The boast and pity of self-regard have mostly fallen behind.
Heading home, the home I carry with me, I settle into the clouds.
On the mountain I sit quietly in a sage meadow
visited by the same bees that make lovers of flowering bushes
all that will be left of me part of the golden comb hidden in the hive humming with delight.
© Stephen Levine, 2009
The boast and pity of self-regard have mostly fallen behind.
Heading home, the home I carry with me, I settle into the clouds.
On the mountain I sit quietly in a sage meadow
visited by the same bees that make lovers of flowering bushes
all that will be left of me part of the golden comb hidden in the hive humming with delight.
© Stephen Levine, 2009
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.
Imagine
Imagine facing death
without fear.
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.
The Living/Dying Project
offers compassionate
support in the spirit of
mutual exploration to
those facing life-
threatening illness
and to those who care for them.
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 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 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
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are you
willing to be?
We are all
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