Hospice professionals hold extraordinary space for heartbreak, dignity, and families in crisis, often neglecting their own unspoken grief. Over time, that emotional labor accumulates. Moral distress, existential fatigue, and the quiet weight of repeated loss can strain even the most dedicated care provider.
Grounded in research on post-traumatic growth, grief education, and clinician resilience, this Lunch and Learn, hosted by Reimagine, invites hospice and palliative care professionals to explore a central question:
How does holding space impact us, and how can we channel these experiences into new meaning and growth in our lives and our work?
In this interactive session, you will have the opportunity to participate in creative and reflective prompts, a simple emotional regulation practice, and small-group dialogue.
Reimagine is a national nonprofit helping people turn life’s challenges into healing, growth, creativity and community. Building on successful pilots with Stanford Medicine and the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, we will share a research-informed methodology designed to help care providers tap into, process, and transform experiences of loss.
We’ll briefly introduce Reimagine’s in-development hospice pilots: a hybrid bereavement pathway for families and a cohort-based pathway for hospice staff, designed to strengthen emotional support for both families and the interdisciplinary hospice teams who care for them.
Facilitated by Dara Kosberg and Deborah Gardner (Reimagine).
Presenter credits
Dara Kosberg, MA, Senior Program Director (Reimagine) — nonprofit and community-building leader with 25+ years designing trauma-informed, arts-integrated educational programs; a leader in the grief space, she was a founding team member of Reimagine and The Dinner Party; and lead designer/facilitator for cohorts with Stanford Medicine and NEDA. Dara is a storyteller and comedian who uses the power of humor to explore grief and loss.
Deborah Gardner, MeD, Head of Partnerships & Growth (Reimagine) — educational leader with 18+ years of experience designing trauma-informed, experiential learning for adults across medical, mental health, and education settings. She specializes in translating psychological research, especially in trauma, resilience, and embodied learning, into practical programs that support real-world healing and behavior change. She has led global somatic/trauma education programs, reaching over 10,000 learners, published a learning framework for psychedelic-assisted therapy, and authored an interdisciplinary psychedelic training adopted by dozens of universities.