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MeetingsSanta 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
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Upcoming Meetings
Thursday: May 9th - 11:45 am – 1 pm
How To Be With Children in Grief
Presenter: Katrina Koehler
Katrina will discuss how grief affects children and teenagers. She will also talk about how adults can support kids when a family member has a life-threatening illness or after a family member or friend has died.
Katrina Koehler, Executive Director, has been working with grieving children, teenagers and their families for the last 18 years at Gerard’s House, a Santa Fe nonprofit that creates safe places for grieving youth where healing happens through acceptance and peer support.
Over the past ten years, Gerard’s House has turned its focus to the city’s most vulnerable grieving youth—kids who have immigrated from war-torn and impoverished regions, kids who are homeless, kids who are in foster care, kids who have been suspended from or dropped out of school, and kids who have attempted suicide. Services include 28 weekly peer grief support groups, a mobile unit, suicide-prevention programs, individual sessions, and grief support for parents/caregivers and other adults, all free of charge and bilingual for youth ages 3 – 21 who have experienced life-changing loss, such as the death of a parent or other loved one.
Katrina has a B.A. in Classics from Yale University, and is a Certified Bereavement Facilitator.
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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
How To Be With Children in Grief
Presenter: Katrina Koehler
Katrina will discuss how grief affects children and teenagers. She will also talk about how adults can support kids when a family member has a life-threatening illness or after a family member or friend has died.
Katrina Koehler, Executive Director, has been working with grieving children, teenagers and their families for the last 18 years at Gerard’s House, a Santa Fe nonprofit that creates safe places for grieving youth where healing happens through acceptance and peer support.
Over the past ten years, Gerard’s House has turned its focus to the city’s most vulnerable grieving youth—kids who have immigrated from war-torn and impoverished regions, kids who are homeless, kids who are in foster care, kids who have been suspended from or dropped out of school, and kids who have attempted suicide. Services include 28 weekly peer grief support groups, a mobile unit, suicide-prevention programs, individual sessions, and grief support for parents/caregivers and other adults, all free of charge and bilingual for youth ages 3 – 21 who have experienced life-changing loss, such as the death of a parent or other loved one.
Katrina has a B.A. in Classics from Yale University, and is a Certified Bereavement Facilitator.
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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
Past Meetings 2018
- 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