By Charles Garfield — 2004
For three decades Charles Garfield has trained volunteers to care compassionately for strangers. He shares what he’s learned about the extraordinary deeds of ordinary people.
Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu
CLEAR ALL
Becoming a cancer caregiver will change your life in many ways, and your loss could be profound. Learning how to cope with the grieving process will help.
Hiring outside help can bring respite for everyone’s benefit.
Information and conversation are key to facing the challenges of care
To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.
The author writes that what she does on behalf of healing any individual or being must also be healing, even if not directly extended, for the world itself.
1
Catherine Ann Lombard explores how imagery and artistic expression can help clients cope with cancer.
Stephen and Ondrea Levine, counselors and meditation teachers, sit down with psychotherapist Barbara Platek to speak about easing the transition from life to death.