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Volunteer Handout & Journaling Exercises

Module 5: Additional Insights & Skill Demonstrations Duration including videos: 1 hour 39 minutes

Additional information and resources are provided throughout this handout.

Slide 1-3 Disclaimer, Gary Gardia Bio

Notes/Questions:

Slide 4 What this module covers

Slide 5 Video Resource: “My Last Days – Meet Zach Sobiech” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjKgV65fpo Additional videos – if you haven’t seen this one yet, it is very inspirational: “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Slide 6 Video Resource: “Dying of Cancer – Chemo RAW” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAxHSZXxD6g

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Slide 7 NHPCO Facts and Figures Notes/Questions:

Slide 8 Video Resource: “You are My Sunshine – A Dying Man Sings to His Wife” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdWTh_GH58k

Slide 9

Video Resource: “Experience 12-minutes in Alzheimer’s Dementia” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_Gq7Shc-Y

Slide 10 Video Resource: “Greeting Cards” Terminally ill mom writes a lifetime of greeting cards for daughter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tXbn70leVg

Slide 11 Video Resource: “The Grieving Process: Coping with Death” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsYL4PC0hyk This video is 26 minutes long and contains good information about grief/loss. Additional video – Understanding Grief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwQn4nmzYY

Slide 12-13 Skills 1 The volunteer in this video made several mistakes. What were they?

What could the volunteer do better? Video Exercise: Darlene Cross – Catch the mistakes

Slide 14-15 Skills 2 What things did you like or would do differently from the volunteer in the video?

Video Exercise: Shonie Christensen – Active listening and emotional support

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Slide 16-17 Skills 3 What are your thoughts about “advise” and offering

options/information as a volunteer?

Video Exercise: Shonie Christensen – Moving from active listening to offering suggestions

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Slide 18 Video Resource: “Spiritual Care: An Interview with a Hospice Chaplain”

What are your thoughts/feelings about working with people who have a different belief or faith background from yours?

Slide 19 Video Resource: Mary Klein – Volunteering with people whose faiths/beliefs are different than yours

Slide 20 Slide 21-30

Never forget that that the end of the day, this is about bringing YOU to this work Quiz – Eight questions related to Module 5 material Concluding slide

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