Maui-based end of life bereavement counselor, Bodhi Be, will discuss conscious dying, practices for conscious living and dying and death as teacher.  Caring for the dying, caring for the dead, suicide, ending a life and the spiritual questions, "Is there a death?" "What dies?" will be discussed.

Friday, Feb.12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Introduction with Bodhi Be $15
Saturday, Feb. 13, 10-4 p.m Journey with Death Workshop $50
Saturday, Feb. 13, 7-9:30 p.m. Zikr with Bodhi and Leila Be, Donation

 

Bohdi Tree Dharma Center

654A North Judd St, Honolulu

 

An informative and experiential day and evening to become familiar with and accept our own and others' mortality.

 

For more information contact bohdi@doorwayintolight.org or call 808-203-5950 or visit www.doorwayintolight.org

You are cordially invited to attend the 6th Death Cafe Honolulu, a free event with (iced) tea, cake and conversation.

The conversation is steered by the participants, and has previously touched on topics such as medical decision-making, paddling clubs taking people's ashes out to sea, teaching youth about volunteering in hospice, natural burial and so much more.

If you plan on attending, please arrive by 6pm. Late arrival disrupts the conversation and makes it harder for you to participate.

Please RSVP to groundgivesway@gmail.com or on www.meetup.com/Honolulu-Death-Cafe-Meetup

Please note that there is only on-street parking - the lot is for residents of the building that the business shares space with. Its location is off of King Street, so is accessible by public transportation.

Please feel free to bring snacks, but please let the facilitator know so she can plan accordingly.

Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DeathCafeHonolulu for more info about Death Cafes.

Oncology on Canvas helps people living with cancer and those that love and care for them to cope with disease through art.  No previous art experience is needed, there are no age restrictions and everyone is welcome!!

Mark your calendars (more details will follow as April creeps up on us)

The Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC) announced a new resource this week: a toolkit for case managers to help everyone-case managers and other health care workers, caregivers and patients themselves-learn to talk about end-of-life wishes and communicate them to loved ones and the health care community.

The End of Life Conversation Project Toolkit is a collection of resources from the Commission and from The Conversation Project.

The End of Life Conversation Project Toolkit is available at no cost via the Commission's online knowledge resource, the CCMC Case Management Body of Knowledge.

This is the time of the year when we ask you to join or renew your Kōkua Mau Membership. Membership is tax-deductible and your financial support helps us to maintain and expand our programs. This includes the e-newsletters, free materials for download (including POLST and the new Advance Directive), our well-visited website, various training opportunities, monthly meetings, Palliative Pupus, and our expanding Speakers Bureau.

2016 will certainly be busy as we look forward to more outreach activities with churches, temples and other community groups - let us know if you would like to schedule our Speakers Bureau to visit. We also look forward to ongoing education and networking opportunities for professionals, both those organized by Kokua Mau and those where we can collaborate with partners.

Membership and donations are an essential part of keeping Kōkua Mau fiscally sustainable.  Last year we had nearly 100 individuals who joined and details for membership are below.  We especially encourage organizational membership by community leaders that support our mission. Please contact Kokua Mau's Executive Director Jeannette Koijane for details.
 
With all donations going into programs we still don't offer you another tote bag, but we still do have the ever popular: low cost virtual Kōkua Mau mug.

In thanks for your membership:

• All members are honored on the Kōkua Mau website and on written materials that are displayed at events

Download a membership form, include a check and and mail it to the Kokua Mau address on the form.  (Renewing members can just send in a check without the form.)

Online: Chose your membership level online or on the PDF file and click the Donate Now button on the right hand side of the webpage. Please put 'membership' in the 'Designation (Optional)' field, click 'add to giving cart' and follow the subsequent steps. We know, the free version of network for good does not look exciting but it is free.

Thank you!
 
Benefits of Joining Kōkua Mau?
 
Kōkua Mau, as a local non-profit, community-benefit organization is fueled by the passion of dedicated volunteers with a lean budget and every penny spent on making our work possible. (Kōkau Mau is not a state agency!) 

• Kōkua Mau e-newsletter providing updates on local and national events, resources and research
• Kōkua Mau website is well visited and constantly updated with free materials for the community
• Monthly Kokua Mau meetings, which usually include a speaker, local updates and networking opportunities
• Palliative Pupus - our cutting-edge, clinical case discussion
• Coming soon: Key documents in 10 languages

For over 17 years, Kōkua Mau has been a voice for outstanding hospice and palliative care and services in Hawai'i, providing high-quality information, trainings and ever growing networking opportunities.

Six key documents will be available by the end of February in ten languages: Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese, Spanish, Tagalog, Tongan and Vietnamese.

Our translation project is almost complete. Stay tuned. We will be uploading the documents and languages as they become available. We are looking forward to offer these great resources to our whole community:

• Hawaii Advance Healthcare Directive
• Advance directive explanatory information sheet
• Consumer guide to POLST
• POLST Form for Hawaii
• Questions about CPR
• Tube Feeding

Thanks to the hui of sponsors who made this project possible:  HMSA, Kaiser Permanente, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC), AlohaCare, United Healthcare, Ohana Health Plan, and University Health Alliance (UHA).   

With some very creative people, the Commission on Law and Aging created a smartphone app called My Health Care Wishes to give individuals and their family members the ability to store their own and each other's health care advance directives, key health information, and health care contacts on their Apple or Android smartphones, and to send advance directive documents directly to health care providers by email or Bluetooth.  www.MyHealthCareWishes.org

Stanford Health Care in conjunction with Stanford University has designed a FREE interdisciplinary online course for palliative care for health care practitioners who work in cancer care. More