Click Here: National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Educational and Research
Workshop (February 17th 2022, 10:30am):
Addressing Spiritual Distress Through Transpersonal Interventions in Adults and Children Receiving Palliative Care Services: Addressing the Disparity of Curing the Body vs Healing the Human Spirit
David Steinhorn, MD, Capital Caring Kids, & Jana Din, BA, Tao Center for Healing
Click Here 22nd International Perinatal Bereavement Conference
PRECONFERENCE SESSION (Date and time TBA):
MINDFUL JOURNEYS: AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO HEALING FOR MOTHERS/PARENTS EXPERIENCING PERINATAL LOSS: DAVID M. STEINHORN, MD AND JANA DIN, BA
This session will introduce the attendee to concepts of mindfulness and explain how a mindful state, in contrast to a state of emotional upheaval, can contribute to reconciling grief and achieving personal growth. The process of journeying to a quiet, mindful, internal place for self-reflection will be discussed as an introduction to transpersonal psychology. Tools for moving into a transpersonal space will be offered, including an experience of gentle drumming as a non-verbal way to achieve mindfulness.
Dr. David Steinhorn is an academic pediatrician who practices intensive care and hospice medicine for children. He has developed palliative care programs at Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and Northwestern University in Chicago and served as medical director of George Mark Children’s House in California. He is currently medical and fellowship director in palliative care at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Dr. Steinhorn has additional training in energy medicine, yoga, meditation, and shamanism, studying with teachers from the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, the Four Winds Society, and Dr. Carl Greer. He and Ms Din have developed symposia on supporting the human spirit through the alchemy of transpersonal medicine. His passion is to find ways of alleviating suffering wherever it may occur and to help patients, families and healthcare providers discover meaning in all of life’s experiences.
Jana Din, BA, is a retired child psychology teacher, shamanic healer, and director of the Tao Center for Healing. She has provided over 100 volunteer shamanic healing services for parents coping with the loss of their infants, and critically ill children and their families, in a unique collaboration with David Steinhorn, MD, ICU and hospice physician. It is Ms. Din’s privilege to provide shamanic healing in hospitals, hospices and across the nation, and to help parents find peace when losing their newborn or child. It is also her privilege to assist patients and families to discover the spiritual meaning in the challenges faced when seriously or terminally ill, or when losing a loved one. Ms. Din inspires audiences nationwide with her poignant, often heart rending stories of healing the human spirit in the midst of working with patients and families who are often facing the most agonizing times of loss in their lives.