Death’s Lessons on Living Fully 

Wednesday May 15th and Thursday 16th 2019 

9:30am to 5pm 

at Webster University Geneva, Route de Collex 15, 1293 Bellevue. 

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight. She helps us to discover what matters most and reminds us not to squander this life. And the good news is we don’t have to wait until the end of our lives to realize the wisdom that death has to offer. 

We can harness the awareness of death to appreciate the fact that we are alive, to encourage self-exploration, to clarify our values, to find meaning, and to generate positive action. It is the impermanence of life that gives us perspective. As we come in contact with life’s precarious nature, we also come to appreciate its preciousness. Death is a good companion on the road to living well and dying without regret. 

This interactive workshop Frank will introduce his Five Invitations, principles and practices for developing a healthy awareness of death and the tools needed to compassionately companion others through their dying process. We will use inquiry, 

experiential exercises, periods of silent mindfulness practice. Frank will share the distilled, hard-won lessons synthesized from sitting bedside with over 2000 dying people during the past 30 years. 

This program is a rare invitation to develop the radical compassion that allows us to go toward and learn from suffering. The radical courage, that enables us to act in the face of fear, risk or vulnerability. The radical connectedness that deepens our sense of trust that we are not alone, not isolated, but inseparable from a greater whole. 

Bio 

Frank Ostaseski is an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and visionary co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project, and founder of the Metta Institute. He has lectured at Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Clinic, Google, numerous international hospice conferences and teaches at major spiritual centers around the globe. Frank is the 2018 recipient of the prestigious Humanities Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. 

His groundbreaking work has been featured on the Bill Moyers PBS series On Our Own Terms, highlighted on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and honored by H.H. the Dalai Lama. He is the author of The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. 

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