A Mindset for Communication for End of Life Care.

Abstract

This communication model attempts to reconcile the unknowingness of death, with a deeper inner knowingness that supports End of Life patients in an empowered way, through a mindset that models both oneness and presence with the death and dying experience. Through 23years of experienced EOL care, I feel it seems necessary to rethink the very one-dimensional idea of dying and to create a space for a multidimensional experience. This model of communication and perspective-taking, offers my patients an opportunity for a secure connection to their own inner resources of knowing how to die. As our bodies are each equipped in our own unique way to do it perfectly, as the return of self, from the experience of being. This communication model also includes perspectives and narratives that attempt to make communication and care in the EOL experience more effortless and intuitive for the provider. Further, the model explains and illustrates why perspectives matter, as they impact connection in the relationship of the provider to the patient and includes a multidimensional perspective to question our own perceptions of death as providers. This model also includes the theory of balance and harmony. As it relates to the relativity of the experience of self, through the connection of communication and perspectives, as the exchange of information that occurs in the relationship between providers and patients. This information as a model represents a new awareness approach in the field of EOL care. It's based on 23years of EOL experience and is supported through research and a fundamental theory of our reality, which intuitively and logically approaches relativity in our human connection to our patients as providers.