Part One of Living Well to Die Well

with Heather Regan-Addis and Jacky Seery

This course can be attended online or in person at Samye Dzong Scarborough 22-24 July 2022

Why might you want to do this course?

It might seem like a difficult topic to tackle.  However there are two main reasons why this course will be of benefit to you.

First – How can we learn to live our lives more joyfully, and navigate life’s challenges more easily so that we can say we have truly lived every minute of our lives?

Second – Inevitably we will be faced with the death of someone we know or love.  This course will provide some insights and practices to help us cope better with these events when we are faced with them.

Price: £300.00 payable in six monthly instalments of £50.00

Times: The weekend begins at 19.00pm on the Friday evening and ends at 15.00pm on the Sunday afternoon.

Location: The choice to join online via Zoom or in person at Scarborough Samye Dzong. There will also be six bi-monthly Thursday evening online sessions over the course of the year following the weekend from 19:00-21:00 on:

Thursday 15 September 2022

Thursday 10 November 2022

Thursday 12 January 2022

Thursday 9 March 2023

Thursday 11 May 2023

Thursday 15 June 2023.

A key aim of the Buddhist path is preparation for death, but what about those of us who are mindfulness practitioners? How do we prepare for our death and for the death of our loved ones? How can we support each other in the processes involved at the end of life? In this course we will explore how we can live well so as to prepare for a good death, without fear or regret. Our practice will be based around loving kindness, tonglen, imagination practices and open awareness. By becoming more mindful and compassionate in our approach to death, we can support ourselves and others when faced with end of life. As we become more mindful, we will be able to recognise the stages of death more easily and introduce practices to best support the transition. We will also explore fear of death, fear of pain and moving from regret and resentment towards forgiveness.

The course will take place over one hybrid (in person and online) weekend at Scarborough Samye Dzong and six bi-monthly online sessions over the course of a year. We expect that this course will then be followed by a part two, in a similar format but the long term aim is to set up a support group of people who have gone through this training so as to support each other in the face of bereavement and in due course in the face of our own death.

The course will be led by Heather Regan-Addis and Jacky Seery, both experienced mindfulness and compassion teachers with an interest in preparing for death. In addition Jacky has training and experience in the use of end of life holistic approaches.

Heather and Jacky talk about the course in the two videos below.