Healing
Conversations
Now

Enhance relationships with elders and dying loved ones.

Healing Conversations Now

Enhance relationships with elders and dying loved ones.

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About HCN

HCN provides specific examples of Healing Stories, Essential Skills, and the “1, 2, 3’s” of Healing Conversations Now. Questions and Conversation Starters help you open the door to begin. Anticipating how to deal with unexpected and difficult circumstances helps you to navigate the ambiguity of not knowing what the response to questions might be. Sometimes the hardest step is getting started. The Essentials and “1, 2, 3’s” help you do that.

What is Healing: When we talk about healing, it does not mean physical recovery as much as as emotional, interpersonal, spiritual, and personal well-being through connection. If the fundamental “dis-ease” toward end of life is isolation, healing conversations now provide the bridge to connecting more deeply. Healing Conversations Now gives you the tools and examples that make it easier to take that first step.

The power of the story: HCN demonstrates the power of deep connection through story. Story after story provide examples to inspire and guide you as you explore healing conversations with elders and loved ones.

The power of the positive: Healing conversations are built on the foundation of Appreciative Inquiry – the notion that positively biased, open-ended questions are the best way to explore and to learn about one another. This intentional positive focus will deepen the relationship while minimizing defensiveness and judgment.

The power of just getting started: You never know until you try. HCN gives you practical, applicable advice you can use today. You will find relevant Stories and example Conversation Starters to inspire ideas for your own conversations. The most important thing, start NOW, before it’s too late.

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Testimonials

"What I liked most about this book is summed up in one sentence: 'You are not there to fix anything.' Partway through the book, I realized that I felt as though I were in a conversation with the authors and all of the characters whose stories are sprinkled throughout the chapters. We readers are not asked to change, but simply to become who we are, to listen and appreciate."
Kali Lightfoot, Executive Director the National Resource Center of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,

"This unique and useful book offers each of us tools to create conversations that deepen the spiritual and personal well being of both the caregiver and those in their care. In this new way of having exchanges, a deepening relationship is the reward to be discovered."
Connie Goldman, author of "The Gifts of Caregiving - Stories of Hardship, Hope and Healing",

We accept, without thinking, the idea that conversations about aging and the end of life must be 'hard.' While it is true that such discussions can stir unfamiliar and uncomfortable emotions, what has yet to be appreciated is how powerful and HEALING such conversations can be. This book leads readers skillfully into the world of 'Healing Conversations.' No jargon. No nonsense. No fluff. This book is a guide to the most important conversations you and your family will ever have."
Dr. William Thomas, Introduced the Eden Alternative, Founder the Green House Project,

I have 2 aging (in their 80's) parents and over the past few years there are visible, audible and physical shifts occurring with them. This book is helping me frame loving conversations with them as the life-death process is evolving. What a great gift this book is to all of us to be able to begin to understand our loved ones (be it parents, relatives, friends) by actively engaging with them through appreciative inquiry.
Thank you Joan and Tony for creating this amazing book.
Anne Lancaster,

If you don't know how to start the conversation with an elder or dying loved one - this is the book for you! Healing Conversations Now gives you easy to understand, insightful tools, and shows you how to use them. The book is filled with story examples and conversation starters that make it easy for you see your own situation more clearly and to help you know what to ask, say, and do. A helpful read for professional caregivers and family members alike.
Mary Vargas,