Tom Nickel, PhD
An Instructional Design for Dying
In this brief overview, I explain what I'm trying to do and how things are organized here.
There are also a few samples so you can make sure you are able to play the media and see if it speaks to you.
If you do get involved in the course activities and share some of your work, I'll definitely reply. I'm looking forward to it.
Tom
I think of preparing for dying and accepting mortality as a three-level process.
1) Personal: A Sense of Completeness
2) Social: Communicating with Caregivers
3) Societal: Specifying Instructions in Proper Forms
[read more...]What I mean by “An Instructional Design for Dying,” is that I’ve put together a sequence of material and activities to help learning.
Learning Dying. Not learning about Dying, but learning dying in the way that we learn all the perspectives and skills which allow us to function and sometimes even thrive in the world. Skills that are meant to be applied.
My mother was a hospice volunteer for many years and I began thinking about preparing for the end of life when I still perceived it to be something way off in the future.
She was well-served by hospice when she died, and my father and I were able to be with her at home due to hospice support. The idea of an online place for learning Dying began for me then.
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This is all optional.
There are (at least) two kinds of personal introductions you may want to consider:
1) A little bit about who you are and what you do, especially as it relates to learning Dying
2) What you hope will be the result of this experience
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