Seminars
Adventures
in Caring seminars leave the audience with new ideas, new motivation, and new
insight into life… plus tangible ways to put their newfound knowledge
into action.
Tailored to the specific needs of each audience or organization, Adventures in Caring seminars are transformative. Participants learn how to communicate with the sick, injured, and dying in ways that support healing. Going beyond the delivery of information, the seminars present a step-by-step process for behavioral change.
We offer ninety-minute, three-hour, and six-hour seminars, for both volunteer caregivers and health care professionals. These seminars have proven their worth throughout the entire health care spectrum, with audiences ranging from hospice volunteers to trauma surgeons.
We have found that when it comes to learning the practice of compassion, no one is hopeless and everyone has room for improvement.
For professional audiences we offer:
- The Medicine of Compassion: Core Skills for the Human Side of Health Care
- Compassion in Action: Being Effective in Emotionally Difficult Conversations
- 2nd Trauma: The Art of Communicating with Families of Trauma Patients
For audiences of volunteer and family caregivers we offer:
- Communicating with Compassion: How to Communicate in Ways that Ease the Pain and Lift the Spirit
- Compassion in Action: Being Effective in Emotionally Difficult Conversations
All of these seminars are also available in ready-to-teach packages with a DVD, book, and handouts which instructors can use to teach the seminar themselves. See video section for more details.
From these seminars your audience members will build their
- Approach emotionally difficult situations with confidence
- Communicate in the ways that are most appreciated
- Avoid the pitfalls of inappropriate communication
- Create a healing rapport with the people they serve
About the presenters
With a wealth of wisdom and delivery from the heart, Adventures in Caring
(AiC) seminar presenters encourage participants to open themselves as much
as possible to gain new insight on compassionate care giving.
AiC founding director Karen Fox is a cancer survivor with thirty years of experience assisting patients and their families. Her husband, Simon Fox, has a background in physics plus thirty years experience in designing transformational adult education programs. Their innovative, award-winning patient care programs deliver psychosocial support to the sick and lonely.
Together, Karen and Simon create a unique blend of instruction and inspiration, as they show the essential ingredients of how to communicate with compassion. The skills they demonstrate are at the core of everyone’s ability to create rapport with those they serve. These skills are the essence of good healing relationships.
Simon and Karen are the authors of the book, What Can I Say? and co-producers of the best-selling video, Communicating with Compassion. President Bush recognized their service to the community in 1991 with his Point of Light Award. In 2002 they received the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Health Care Heroes Award, and in 2004 they won the International Health & Medical Media Award for co-producing the best video in patient care, The Medicine of Compassion. Karen and Simon are also National Advisory Committee members of the American Trauma Society and in 2007 they developed the train-the-trainer program for the Society’s new 2nd Trauma Program on the art of communicating with the families of trauma patients.