Zoom Schedule from 4/16-7/30! We have LOTS going on!

 

TRU Volunteer Connection Zoom Meeting Schedule and Opportunities           

 

4/16, Friday:  Cancelled – New volunteer training

 

4/21, Wednesday: Volunteer Appreciation Week- 6pm – 7pm

Please send in two things that are true about YOU, and one thing that is false to Ginger or Wendy. We can’t wait to CELEBRATE your gift of being a TRU Volunteer and Thank YOU!!!

 

4/23, Friday:  VC Zoom Presentation: Susan Numchez – “Cause to Pause” Our education and training modules offers strategies for navigating the difficult emotions that can arise for caregivers. By integrating tools for reflection and awareness we become more resilient, and the capacity for compassion expands. Through this shared human experience we inspire each other to live whole-heartedly.

 

4/28, Wednesday: Volunteer Support Group: Death Café with Kim Mooney 5:30pm-7:30pm    Zoom Access code is: 850 229 3682

 

4/30, Friday: VC Zoom Presentation - Ted Talk: What's invisible? More than you think - John Lloyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EUy_82IChY  Wendy’s Epiphany – recognizing invisible support and connections to reaffirm Life and Living in the time of COVID.

 

5/5 Wednesday: TRUvies Movie Night 6:30pm to 8:30pm - Dying Wish: A Dying Doctor’s Decision to Stop Eating and Drinking, Zoom Code: 850 229 3682

80 year old Dr Michael Miller suffers from late-term terminal cancer.  This film explores the personal, social and ethical implications of Miller's decision to discontinue eating and drinking in order to achieve a more peaceful and less lengthy dying process. Dying Wish is a 12 day journey with Michael, his family and his hospice team in an exploration of the final days of his life.  While it is impossible not to be touched by this journey, it is also an educational and deeply thought-provoking film for any caregiver to experience and consider. 

 

5/7 Friday: Book Club-: FINAL GIFTS –“SPECIAL GUEST” Author Patricia Kelley’s husband, Craig Hafner, will be joining us. Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley "For everyone who has been or ever will be close to someone who is dying, this book is aimed at helping them to understand not only what the experience of death is like, but also how to interpret the symbolic messages by which the dying attempt to communicate their needs to us. ... Google Books

 

5/14 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation: The Natural Funeral-Karen Van Vuren

 

5/21 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation: Survival Talk for the CAREGIVER- Jessica O’Leary, TRU Patient Care Consultant

 

5/28 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation: Patient/Family Volunteer Refresher Course

 

6/2 Wednesday:  TRUvies Movie Night, 6:30pm to 8:30pm. The Father

Zoom Code: 850 229 3682

Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can't make daily visits anymore and Anthony's grip on reality is unravelling. As we experience the ebb and flow of his memory, how much of his own identity and past can Anthony cling to? How does Anne cope as she grieves the loss of her father, while he still lives and breathes before her? THE FATHER warmly embraces real life, through loving reflection upon the vibrant human condition; heart-breaking and uncompromisingly poignant - a movie that nestles in the truth of our own lives.

 

6/4 Friday: Book Club: The December Project with author &TRU volunteer Sara Davidson.

 

6/11 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation: “Can’t Create this Up”-Stories of the Afterlife-Jessica DeSimone

 

6/18 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation: Cancelled. New Volunteer Training Day

 

6/25 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation: “Connections” Therapist and TRU Volunteer, Sue Ann Belmont

7/2 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation: A love letter to realism in a time of grief https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_pollock_and_simone_george_a_love_letter_to_realism_in_a_time_of_grief?rid=4ipsTKnY2Lw6&utm_source=recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=explore&utm_term=watchNow#t-1143641

7/7 Wednesday: TRUvies Movie Night, 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

Zoom Code: 850 229 3682

 

7/9 Friday: Book Club: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Stephanie Rudy-Longmont Crematory

 

7/16 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation - Ted Talk: Prepare for a good end of life https://www.ted.com/talks/judy_macdonald_johnston_prepare_for_a_good_end_of_life

7/23 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation: Self-Care – What Drains You and what Fills You – Ginger Cooley

7/27 Wednesday: Volunteer Support Group: with Richard Mercer  5:30pm-7:30pm    Zoom Access code is:850 229 3682

 

7/30 Friday: VC Zoom Presentation: The Journey of a Lifetime/Death: A series about Life/A Documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqkmJP90mbs