Mindfulness & Deep Listening as Counseling Techniques

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On-Demand Webinar

StreamedDec 3, 2025Duration90 minutes

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Take-away toolkit
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Transform end-of-life care with deep listening.

Discover evidence-based counseling techniques that help social workers, chaplains, and care teams manage trauma, de-escalate crisis moments, and bring calm to high-stress hospice and palliative settings. Join Gary Gardia for a powerful 90-minute webinar merging mindfulness, compassion, and clinical skills to strengthen patient and family support.

AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

Define counseling in end-of-life care
Explain mindfulness and deep listening frameworks
Identify two mindfulness techniques for de-escalation
Recognize two high-risk situations requiring both interventions
Describe two scenarios applying these techniques to traumatic stress

WEBINAR DETAILS

End-of-life care is about more than comfort and support; it’s about truly understanding the challenges families and patients face. With dementia on the rise and more caregivers experiencing PTSD, skilled counseling can make all the difference. Medicare recognizes this need, requiring hospice programs to offer counseling that eases the unique stresses of a terminal diagnosis. This webinar will explore how mindfulness and deep listening can provide meaningful help in both everyday and complex situations — ensuring no one faces this journey alone.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES:

Hospice
Home Health
Home Care
Palliative Care

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This session is ideal for social workers and chaplains, but all members of the patient and family care team will benefit from attending.

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

Social work assessment exercise
Chaplain/spiritual counselor assessment exercise
Organizational assessment exercise
Sample suffering assessment form
Handout with additional lecture notes and detailed information about each theoretical framework presented
List of references and additional learning opportunities
Training log
PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions
Attendance certificate provided, however there are no pre-approved CEs associated with this webinar

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