Educational Services

Newsletters

• Our current newsletter
• 2006 newsletter
• 2005 newsletter
• 2004 newsletter

Articles

Dale Borglum, Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project, has written all of the articles for our website. Dale founded and directed the first spiritually- based hospice in the United States, the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the co-author of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditaion for the past 25 years. Dale lectures and gives workshops on the topics of spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness and on caregiving as a spiritual practice.

Collective Healing (2003) Pilgrimage (2002) Interview on Caregiving (2001) Engaged by the Mystery (2001) What's Normal? (2001) Before the First Step (2000) How We Heal (1999) The Path to Healing (1998) The Shadow of Death (1997)

In- Services

In-Services are available to organizations, healthcare providers, hospitals, schools, and civic groups. Executive Director, Dale Borglum, provides these educational services upon request. Fees are negotiable. Contact us.

Interviews

We are beginning to post interviews with local professionals on our website. If you have any particular requests or comments please e-mail us.

• Dale Borglum, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project. How Healing Can Come From Caregiving. September 2001

Meditation & Relaxation Exercises

• The "Ah" Breath: caregiver and patient do together
• Taking and Sending: meditation for one person,caregiver or patient

Reading List

The following reading list is recommended by the Living/Dying Project for further information on dying issues.

Caregiving:

• Caring for the Patient with Cancer at Home ,The American Cancer Society
• When Life Becomes Precious,Elsie Needell Babcock
• Share the Care, How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who is Seriously Ill,Cappy Capossela,Sheila Warnock
• Coming Home,Deborah Duda
• The Family Handbook of Hospice Care,Fairview Health Services
• All About Hospice: A Consumer's Guide,Foundation for Hospice and Homecare
• The Hospice Choice: In Pursuit of a Peaceful Death ,Marcia Lattanzi-Licht,John Mahoney, and Galen Miller
• Home Care for the Dying: A Reassuring, Comprehensive Guide to Physical and Emotional Care ,Deborah Whiting Little
• The Caregiver's Book: Caring for Another, Caring for Yourself/, James. E. Miller
• The Caregiver's Guide , Caroline Rob

Healing:

• The Healing Path, Marc Ian Barasch
• Spiritual Healing, Joel Goldsmith
• Healing From the War, Arthur Egendorf
• The Lover Within, Julie Henderson
• Reclaiming Our Health, John Robbins
• Healing Words, Larry Dossey

Meditation:

• Journey of Awakening, Ram Dass, Dale Borglum, Daniel Goleman, Dwarka Bonner.
• Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield
• The Experience of Insight, Joseph Goldstein
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
• Open Secret, Versions of Rumi, John Moyne and Coleman Barks
• You Are the Eyes of the World, Longchenpa
• A Path With Heart, Jack Kornfield

Psychology:

• The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller
• Awakening the Heart, John Welwood, ed.
• Essence, A.H. Almaas
• Meeting the Shadow, Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams, ed.
• Universal Compassion, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
• Suicide and the Soul, James Hillman

Working with the Dying:

• Who Dies?, Stephen Levine
• Healing into Life and Death, Stephen Levine
• Coming Home, Deborah Duda
• How Can I Help? , Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
• Grace Unfolding, Greg Johanson and Ron Kurtz
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
• Living Our Dying, Joseph Stark