HEALTHCARE WORKERS

“In our Healing of Memories work we have created a powerful method that honors people for their sacrifices and yet encourages them in the fullness of time to lay down their burdens and integrate pain into a new life. In this way none of us need remain imprisoned by the past, but we can become agents of the future, helping to shape and create a better world.” ~Father Michael Lapsley, Founder, Institute for Healing of Memories

HEALING OF MEMORIES WORKSHOP

Healing of Memories (HOM) workshops were designed to respond to emotional, psychological, and spiritual wounds inflicted by war, human rights abuses and other traumatic circumstances. Since 1998, HOM workshops, a 2 ½ day experiential process, have been utilized in multiple contexts around the world.

In response to COVID19, we created HOM Zoom workshops in order to meet the immediate and long-term needs of healthcare workers.

HOM ZOOM Workshop

We provide a safe, supportive, nonjudgmental, confidential space to share feelings, story, experiences, and to begin to heal past painful experiences, trauma and moral dilemmas encountered in your care of COVID-19 patients. The sharing and acknowledgement of feelings is often a first step toward healing. Each workshop is 4-hours long and is held in groups of 9 to 12 people.

Participants find support, healing, increased trust, empathy, hope, relief, reassurance and sense of belonging.

“I felt connected and grounded.”

“It was a healing experience.”

“Listening to others share their struggles, concerns, and hopes made me feel I am not alone.”

If you have experienced the personal, professional, emotional tsunami named COVID19 and need a safe, confidential environment in which to begin to heal the moral, personal and professional wounds it brought into your life, please register for a HOM Zoom Support Call.

If you can relate to any of these scenarios, then this workshop may help:

• Feeling fear, depressed, shame, guilt, anger, remorse, grief, frustration, and/or a deep moral/ethical dilemma over what you had been unable to do, or what you personally witnessed.
• Making decisions and taking actions that were morally challenging to you
• Witnessing people dying alone and not being able to help, or having to be a surrogate holding space for people to die without loved ones
• Decisions you had to make or could not make on behalf of patients
• Losing patients, friends, colleagues, loved ones
• Living in fear of being infected or infecting loved ones
• Betrayal by the system that was designed to protect you
• Feeling hurt by the actions of your community in not taking the needs of healthcare workers into consideration

The anger, grief, fear you are experiencing are normal reactions to a highly stressful and sometimes frightening experience. Sharing may support now and prevent future emotional, spiritual or psychological difficulty. * If you are seeing a therapist ask if whether this HOM support and healing experience is a helpful adjunct to your ongoing therapy. If you are overly dependent on alcohol, mood altering medications, or illicit drugs to get through the day, we suggest you get help for that first.