Caring for patients in MAID, Medical Aid in Dying, settings can be deeply meaningful and emotionally complex. This nurse-centered wellness workshop offers a supportive space for reflection, connection, and renewal through the practices of reflective writing and storytelling. Participants will be guided to explore the therapeutic power of stories, our own, those of our colleagues, and those entrusted to us by our patients. Through gentle writing prompts, shared reflection, and intentional listening, nurses will examine how storytelling can foster emotional processing, resilience, and a deeper sense of professional purpose.
This workshop emphasizes community-building among caregivers while introducing practical reflective writing techniques that can be integrated into both personal self-care routines and professional nursing practice. No prior writing experience is required, only a willingness to reflect and engage. Attendees will earn continuing education credit while discovering meaningful, creative approaches to wellness that honor the emotional labor of MAID care and support sustainable, compassionate nursing practice.
Agenda
Thursday, September 17, 2026
12:00 – 12:30 p.m. ET
Healing Through Reflective Telling and Listening
12:30 – 12:45 p.m. ET
Nurstory Video
12:45 – 1:45 p.m. ET
Story Writing Workshop
1:45 – 2:00 p.m. ET
Closing – Gratitudes & Take Forwards
Facilitator: Daniel Weinshenker, MA, LMSW
Daniel has spent the past 25 years teaching storytelling to various groups around the world. With a background in creative writing/teaching and social work, he has facilitated storytelling workshops for more than 5,000 people, helping them listen, find, tell, and make meaning from the stories of their lived experiences. As part of this work, Daniel helped found Nurstory - a storytelling project specific to training nurses to engage in storytelling as part of reflective practice aimed at reducing vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout, along with augmenting relational resilience, growth in practice, and overall wellness.
Continuing Education
Attendees can earn up to a maximum of 2.0 NCPD contact hours* upon successful completion of this course. Successful completion requires participants to remain engaged throughout the Zoom platform (e.g., cameras on, engaged in breakout sessions, etc.) and completing/submitting the post-activity evaluation within the timeframe specified. Evaluations must be completed within 30 days, by October 17th, 2026, in order to receive contact hours. Late evaluations cannot be accepted.
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
*Number of NCPD contact hours are subject to change.
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