Jan Booth, a board-certified nurse of almost forty years, has worked at the intersection of “quality of life” and “end of life.” She is a hospice/palliative care nurse as well as an end-of-life coach and educator. She currently serves as faculty for the Conscious Dying Collective (a death doula training program), the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy, and the Art of Dying Institute’s integrative certificate program for thanatology, a discipline that examines death from multiple perspectives including physical, spiritual, ethical and medical, among others.
Jan presents workshops on end-of-life planning and the transformative possibilities of end-of-life care. Additionally, she is the author of Re-Imagining the End-of-Life: Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurse Coaches, and one of the co-authors of Bold Spirit Caring for the Dying.
Well-Becoming: Bringing the Wisdom of Well-being into the End of Life
Most people living with chronic and advanced illnesses want quality of life as a goal of care, but they don’t always know how to make that happen within a complex health care system that doesn’t value a person’s wholeness. What might shift if we re-imagined the end of life as a vital, purposeful stage of human development? What if we let wisdom instead of fear inform our challenging medical decision points? Well-becoming is a term for a process beyond well-being where we consciously participate in changing patterns of wholeness and healing throughout our whole lifespan. This presentation will explore how we might re-envision the last chapter of our lives as an opportunity to live more authentically and in alignment with our core values and priorities.
Individual Consultations and/or Workshops:
Private Sessions: Co-Creating a Roadmap for the Rest of Your Life
Our health care system is often limited in terms of the options it shows for living with serious illness and through the end of life. Many people don’t know they have choices – or that they can co-create the map with a health care team. As we age, many people haven’t considered how we are guided to make decisions about the last part of life. Maps based on your values can be helpful when approaching unknown, unfamiliar territory. Jump start the creation of your own life map with a private consultation with end-of-life nurse and educator, Jan Booth.
$200/person, 75 minutes
