Opening to the Mystery is a live, 6-day online retreat.
We will meet (via Zoom) Monday, January 27th - Saturday, February 1, 2025, 5:00PM - 8:30PM (Eastern) each day.
The course includes individual and small group exercises, reading and journaling, discussion and lecture. It is a highly-interactive exploration of authenticity, presence, and mortality that will include much more joy than you will expect!
The course includes individual and small group exercises, reading and journaling, discussion and lecture. It is a highly-interactive exploration of authenticity, presence, and mortality that will include much more joy than you will expect!
When we know ourselves, we are so much more able to meet others exactly where they are.
Opening to the Mystery is designed to invite you to deeply consider and even to befriend your own mortality. Cal Cates will combine a variety of experiential, interpersonal, and individual exercises that support deep inquiry and consideration of emotions and ideas about living and dying. This course provides guideposts that will lead you to embrace an honest relationship with life that will allow you to be more fully present not only with people who are dying, but also with all of the people in your life.
This course will be beneficial for any person who wants to have more access to their own wisdom and to cultivate deeper, more authentic relationships professionally and personally. Certainly, if you spend time at the bedside of people who are dying you’ll find you have more comfort there, but this course is not just for people who feel drawn to or already work in hospice care.
Enlivened their practice
Shifted stuck relationships
Helped them to see and to love their family members/spouses in a different, more open way
*Please note: In order to be eligible for CE credit, you must register with your full name (as it appears on your professional license) and your license state and number.
Approved by NCBTMB for 21 CEUs for massage therapists.
Approved for 21 contact/clock hours of continuing education credit by the Continuing Education Institute of Illinois for the following professions:
Please refer to https://ceupro.com/ for eligibility of CE credit for your profession in your state or contact your licensing board/credential provider for continuing education requirements. Questions, please contact [email protected]
Cal Cates is an award-winning writer, published researcher, international speaker, and the founder and Executive Director of Healwell.
Cal is an inspirational change facilitator.
They have trained thousands of healthcare providers in skills of resiliency, self-awareness, communication, and forgiveness. They have dedicated their career to advocacy in healthcare, massage therapy as social justice, and to revolutionizing education for healthcare providers. Cal has trained with Roshi Joan Halifax, Ram Dass, Frank Ostaseski, and other leaders in the field of contemplative care and has created curriculum and written for trade journals on topics ranging from end of life care to interdisciplinary education to racism and the endless ways that humans make it hard to live in successful, equitable harmony.
Here's what past participants have to say about Opening to the Mystery.
It was a pleasure taking Opening to the Mystery online. It’s a transformative training, and the online format doesn’t seem to change that. The opportunity for deep reflection has served to really anchor and enrich my practice with patients (and myself) at end of life. The connection with other participants amplifies that experience as well, as do the readings. Easily the best CEUs I have ever taken.
So many courses present material in a linear and clean fashion. True learning happens when you journey into it and experience it. The instructor brought us up close and personal.
Very moving and clarifying, at the soul level.
Always life affirming to discuss death and dying! I'm surprised how many friends have asked me to share information from the class! We need to be less afraid of these discussions. It is empowering. I look forward to continuing the discussion with friends and family.
At Healwell, we are dedicated to addressing inequities. As you engage with our programs, we invite you to see your participation as an investment. Consider what you can contribute financially and how it aligns with your values. Your support helps create a more equitable future for all.
Our equity pricing is for those with marginalized identities and those in need.
The standard registration pricing is for those who have sufficient resources to cover themselves.
The Pay It Forward option ensures that others can have this same experience you’re about to have while continuing to be able to meet their basic financial commitments.
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The course tuition includes a non-refundable $50 cancellation fee. If you cancel or withdraw from a course 30 days prior to the course start date you will be refunded your full tuition less $50. If you cancel or withdraw from a course fewer than 30 days (but more than one week) prior to the course start date you will be refunded 50% of your tuition. If you cancel or withdraw from a course fewer than 7 days prior to the course start date your tuition will be non-refundable.
In the event of proper documentation of medical emergency, death in the immediate family, or weather prohibiting travel your entire tuition may be allowed to be rolled over to a workshop at a later date. This special consideration will be allowed one time only at the discretion of the instructor.
If a course is cancelled due to low enrollment your tuition will be refunded in full.
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