How to Be Effective & Loving When It Really Counts

Life has a beginning – middle – and an end. This timely workshop will focus on the most difficult of conversations, about saying a last goodbye, which is more urgent now than ever.

No one knows what happens after life. Yet the important days, months or years leading to a loved one’s final transition can be handled well – or poorly – by both family and practitioners.

Can we do better? Yes, we can.

We all have loved ones who have passed or are moving in that direction. And for practitioners, knowing how to work with patients, their families, and with our own feelings, can bring healing – even when there may be no cure.

Michelle Maidenberg, PhD a recent TED Talk contributor and Caroline Defilippo, MD, a CareMount Associate Medical Director, will help us navigate this incredibly important moment in our lives with insight and pragmatic tools.

As always KSG workshops are open to the general community as well as to healthcare practitioners and allied professionals.

Topics will Include:

• Why it’s important therapeutically to be informed and acquire skills around effective conversations.
• Discussion around difficult conversations and chronic medical illness including death and dying and frameworks of how practitioners can approach this.
• Identifying the need for multidisciplinary approach and coordination.
• What tools we each use to perform this in our practices with pertinent examples and challenges we both face.
• Guided meditation with focus on death and dying/loss.
• Debrief
• Providing a countertransference example and open discussion around challenges others may face.
• Question/Answer Period

Space is limited to the first 100 registrants.
This webinar is FREE of charge, but you must register.
A confirmation and Zoom link will be sent to you upon registration.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucuytqj0pHdKdieNLICwW2pGicwYWTo-_

*****Please consider making a voluntary contribution of $10-$15-$25 or more – via our donation form so that we may continue bringing you quality KSG events free of charge.******

Michelle P. Maidenberg, PhD, MPH, LCSW-R maintains a private practice in Harrison, NY. She is also the Co-Founder and Clinical Director of “Thru My Eyes”, a nonprofit 501c3 organization that offers free clinically-guided videotaping to chronically medically ill individuals who want to leave video legacies for their children and loved ones. Michelle is adjunct faculty at New York University (NYU) teaching a graduate course in Mindfulness Practice. She is a Board of Directors member at The Boys & Girls in Mount Vernon and is a member of the American Red Cross Crisis Team. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Westchester Trauma Network (WTN) in Westchester NY.

Michelle is the author of the book “Free Your Child From Overeating- 53 Mind-Body Strategies For Lifelong Health”  and anticipates the release of her upcoming book on 9/20/22 “ACE Your Life – Unleash Your Best Self and the Life You Want.”  She is also a blogger for Psychology Today. Michelle is married and has four children and is dedicated and invested in health and mental health advocacy.

Caroline DeFilippo, MD, MPH, FACP is an internal medicine physician and Medical Director of Population Health at CareMount practicing in the same community where she was born and raised. Prior to joining CareMount, she was in private practice for 5 years and served as an Associate Medical Director at WestMed Medical Group. She is passionate about primary care particularly as it allows for the development of long-term partnerships with patients and their families. She values a comprehensive approach to healthcare. Her professional interests include management of chronic diseases, serious illness conversations and promoting wellness especially for parents. She is married with three children and enjoys travel and the outdoors.

Space is limited to the first 100 registrants.
This webinar is FREE of charge, but you must register.
A confirmation and Zoom link will be sent to you upon registration.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucuytqj0pHdKdieNLICwW2pGicwYWTo-_

*****Please consider making a voluntary contribution of $10-$15-$25 or more – via our donation form so that we may continue bringing you quality KSG events free of charge.******