Meetings

Santa Fe Doorways meets on the second Thursday of each month. Time is always allotted during the meeting for lively discussion. All presentations are free and open to the public.
Meetings are held at Brookdale Senior Living Facility from 11:45 AM-1:00 PM.

Address: 640 Alta Vista St, Santa Fe

Upcoming Meetings

Thursday: December 12th - 11:45 am – 1 pm
 
"Your Song" Bedside Singers

Presenter: Terese Sanchez and Your Song Singers

“Your Song” is a group of women who have been together for 12 years, singing at the bedsides of the bedridden or dying.
Their intention is to sing songs that are personal to each situation, bringing comfort whether at home, in a hospital, or other medical facility. They will demonstrate their services at our gathering and also offer opportunities for this meeting’s participants to experience the joy of singing together, as well as some time for discussion.

 Every Holiday season we like to celebrate with music.
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Please park outside the Brookdale parking lot. It is reserved for residents and their families.

All welcome. Brown Bag Lunch.  For questions please call Denys Cope 474-8383

Past Meetings 2019

  • January What our Animals Have to Teach Us About Life  and Death  Lisa Farrand and Ulla Pederson
  • February  Long Distance Caregiving   Presenter: Lisa Heather Imahoff, MSW
  • March  Perspectives on The Afterlife or the Lack Thereof  Rabbi Berel Levertov, Chaplain Owen Kunkle
  • April  Peace of Mind - Knowing your Legacy is Protected  Betsy Ehrenberg
  • May  How To Be With Children in Grief  Katrina Koehler
  • June  Death/Funerals In The Age Of The Internet  Tim Rivera
  • July  End of Life Options for Managing Choice  Barak Wolff, Denys Cope
  • August  Casa Cielo, End-of-Life Residence  Frances Salles and Rev. Hollis Walker
  • September So Many Choices on the Menu Thomas E.Brown lll
  • October  Dispelling the Myths about Palliative Care   Janet Smith RN
  • November As A Death Doula When Spirit Speaks, I Listen. What is A Death Doula?  ChrisTina Maestas-Simek

Past Meetings 2018

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  • January Get Your Financial Life in Order before You Die Ann Christensen
  • February Suicide...The S Word Stigma...Shame...Survival
  • March  Wondering What to Do With All Your Things? Too Much Stuff? We Can Help. Karen Hyatt and Chris Romero
  • April  Hospice in an Era of Medicare Cutbacks: Updates and Speculations on the Future of Hospice and Palliative Care. Karin Thron MD
  • May  Green Burials/In-Home Funerals. Jody Herrington
  • June Living and Dying Consciously  Karen K. Milstein, PhD, LISW
  • July Living Fully Every Day and Being Ready to Go  Presenters:  Longtime Doorways members
  • August Medical Cannabis at End-of-Life   Presenter: Gina Lucero RN
  • September Dying, Dignity and Dementia  Presenter: David Davis
  • October Medical Aid in Dying: Is New Mexico Ready?  Presenter: Barak Wolff
  • November Homeopathy for Hospice Presenter: Lia Bello
  • December "Your Song" Bedside Singers

Past Meetings - 2017

  • January, 2017  What is Your Relationship to Death?  Eileen Joyce and Janet Mandel
  • February 2017  Interacting with Emergency Medical Technicians Andrés Mercado
  • March 2017  Palliative Care Update  Jan Jahner, RN-BC, CHPN, PMO
  • April 2017 LOOKING BACK… HEALING THE PRESENT: Bob Dorsett
  • June 2017  Having the Conversation:  It’s all about you, your health and how you want to live!   Joan Gibson and Revathi A-Davidson
  • July 2017 Celebrating Santa Fe Doorways
  • September 2017 Long-Distance Love: Caregiving from Afar  Presenter: Rev. Hollis Walker, Clinical Chaplain 
  • October 2017 Disenfranchised Grief We Hold Inside, and Grief About the Outside World. Eileen Joyce
  • November 2017 Get your Financial Life in Order Before You Die So You Can Live Now, Ann Christensen
  • December 2017 "Your Song" bedside singers

Past Meetings - 2016

  • March, 2016 Meeting Caring Giving Needs For Our Friends, Neighbors and Selves, Denys Cope, RN, BSN, Janet Schreiber,PhD, Sheila Doan-Benyon
  • April, 2016 Baby Boomers, (Silver Tsunami) are Changing Death in Our Society: The Industry’s New Twists in How the Boomers are Shaping the Landscape Around Death, Tim Rivera and ChrisTina Simek
  • May 2016  Dying a Natural Passage, Talk about the actual journey with the dying process. Denys Cope, RN, BSN, MSS
  • June, 2016  Supporting Children as They Cope with Serious Family Illness 
    The Stepping Stones program at Gerard’s House. JJ Tellatin and Francine Kern
  • July, 2016 A discussion on the book and film: "Being Mortal" by Dr. Atul Gawande. Presenters: Eileen Joyce and Caroline Burnett
  • August, 2016 Geshe Sherab, Resident Geshe, Thubten Norbu Ling in Santa Fe
  • October 2016, Use of Medical Marijuana-Part 2 Presenter: Roni Stephenson, Cannabis Educator
  • November 2016, Palliative Care in Santa Fe Update  Jan Jahner
  • December 2016, Meeting the Liminal with Luminosity, Judith Shotwell

Past Meetings - 2015

  • Homeopathy for Hospice, Lia Bello, Homeopathic Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Empowering Ourselves to Heal , Rev. Hollis Walker, Clinical Chaplain
  • Learning to Spiritually Connect During the End of Life Journey, Wendy Jordan, Reiki Master
  • The Healing Role of the Celebrant When Approaching Life’s End and Beyond, ChrisTina Simek, Certified Life Cycle Celebrant
  • Dying A Natural Passage, Denys Cope, RN, BSN
  • Engaging Grief: Re-turning From Loss to Life, Owen Kunkle, MA PMS Hospice Pastoral And Bereavement Counselor
  • The New Document For Advance Directives: The MOST Form, Amy Fredrick’s and Kristin St. Clair, Palliative Care CSV
  • Medicare and How it Covers End of Life Care Costs, Robert Meinershagen, Volunteer Benefits Councilor
  • End of Life comfort of persons with severe cognitive impairment, Jytte Lokvig, PhD
  • Immortality: Fantasy or Fact, Larry Dosey
  • Life Songs: Cultivating the Place Where Poetry Meets Social Justice, Alyshia Shaw, Life Songs program coordinator; Vanessa Torres, Singer Songwriter