Seminars and Workshops: JoAnne Chitwood's gift for creating an effective and sensitive connection with her video audience, is even more enhanced during her personal seminar presentations. JoAnne combines her extensive personal experience as a hospice nurse and counselor with her open, genuine personality to create a trusting seminar group environment for healing and sharing emotions. She has traveled extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest delivering a variety of well-received seminars and workshops. She, and Border Mountain staff members Ralph Wyman and Lyla Swafford, will deeply touch your hearts and softly open up your inner grief for healing. The following seminar topics are available for presentation.

• Letting Go of Fear - Current losses and issues may well trigger pain fears left over from childhood experiences of neglect and physical or emotional child abuse.


• Why Do I Do What I Don't Want to Do? - Emotional and spiritual healing for those who have felt the defeat of trying to change by doing the same old thing over and over.


• Write Your Journey - "Hands on" personal memoir techniques in creating, editing, and marketing your own life experience while enriching your personal healing journey.


• Healing After Loss - Support, encouragement, and guidance to those grieving the loss of a loved one.


• Journey of the Heart - JoAnne tells her own personal gripping story as part of this presentation on Grief and Loss.


• 7 Essential Keys to Working with Hospice Volunteers - For Hospice cordinators, this presentation is based on JoAnnes new book (reviewed on our Hospice page).


• Caring For You - Strategies for preventing and healing "Burnout" - appropriate for all staff and volunteers..


• My Gift: Myself - Designed for Hospice volunteers, this presentation expands upon the My Gift: Myself training materials to include personal experiences and enhanced group activities.

Hospitals, churches, schools, and organizations can have Border Mountain staff present any of these workshops at your facility.

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If this is not a place
where tears
are understood,
where do I go to cry?
If this is not a place
where my spirit
can take wing,
where do I go to fly?
If this is not a place
where my questions
can be asked,
where do I go to speak?
If this is not a place
where you'll accept me
as I am,
where can I go to be?
Where can I learn
and try and grow?
Where can I go
and just be me?
If this is not a place
where tears
are understood,
where can I go to cry?