Claire: Increasing Death Literacy Through Workshops for Health Care Workers

Change Activity Plan 

Victories: 

• Spoken with health care settings about workshops
• Spoken with community settings about workshops
• Locked one community workshop in

Challenges:

• Time has been a challenge, also a lot of procrastinating especially when the weather is hot. I tend to stand in my own way a lot. It feels like this project is overwhelming.
• Also, when I get traction with someone particularly in health settings, the obstacles that come from above are demotivating, feels like pushing elephants upstairs.
• The work that I do is also so broad, working out how to make it attractive and easy to follow is another thing. Remembering that most people do not know what I know so drilling back down to the basics

Lessons:

I feel like the real power is in the community, this has been shown again and again. My goal is to build a bridge between healthcare and deathcare however targeting the healthcare sector is arduous and fraught with setbacks. I think I need to get quick wins across the community settings first and look at this as something where the community starts demanding from not me trying to push it with my theories alone.

Support:

I think it would be good for there to be like a phone tree involved in this where we each have to reach out to another and see how we are going.

Do you have any questions about the program in general?

No

What has been your favourite thing about Palliative CATQIP so far?

It is making me accountable!