“Death is the Expected
Outcome of life”
Booking a Seminar
- Cost of seminars range from $15 to $30
- Seminars are intended for those 18 or older
- Our venue is accessible with ample free parking and has a private washroom
- Please click on the calendar and select the seminar/s you wish to attend
- You may also call Expected Outcome to book and provide your credit card number over the phone
- If the seminar you are choosing is full, you can be added to a waitlist and notified if a
- space becomes available or an additional seminar is added to the calendar
Calendar of Events
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- 0107/01/2022
- 0507/05/2022
Death Bed Phenomena (VIRTUAL)
Expected Outcome Venue3009, 23rd Ave. SW. CalgaryPeople who are close to death sometimes report visions of deceased relatives, friends, places, or religious figures. Others report “deathbed coincidences” or unique and meaningful dreams. We call these deathbed phenomena (DBP), and they are more common than we think.
Are these hallucinations? Did the experience really happen or is it due to random nerves firing in a dying brain? Has anyone done any serious studies?
Dying people can have these experiences while awake or asleep, alone or with others, and the experience can be visual or auditory. Deathbed phenomena have been reported around the world and are now being studied in the medical literature. What is interesting is that these experiences almost always have a positive effect, bringing peace, comfort, calmness and joy to the dying person as well as their family.
How can we support dying patients and their families who experience deathbed phenomena? How do you discuss this experience with a dying person and their family? I’ll answer these questions and look at these phenomena in more detail. I’ll also share some stories from local Calgary palliative care clinicians. Most importantly, we’ll explore the meaning of deathbed phenomena to those who experience them.
- 0607/06/2022
Grief Café
Expected Outcome Venue3009, 23rd Ave. SW. CalgaryJoin me for this 30 minute gently guided time where you can freely express your thoughts and your grief and hopes with others who have experienced the death of a loved one in a safe and non-judgemental environment.
- 0607/06/2022
Practical Comfort Care
Expected Outcome Venue3009, 23rd Ave. SW. CalgaryThis two-hour seminar is provided by Laurel Wilson, Palliative Health Care Aide and Alison Potter, R.N.
Learn what resources are available in Calgary for those diagnosed with a palliative illness and for those who are grieving their loved ones.
During these two hours learn the practicalities of caring for your loved one as their condition changes. Get hands-on experience with managing mouth care, emptying catheter bags, turning a patient in bed, advice on keeping track of appointments, medications, managing support from family and friends.
- 0707/07/2022
Walking the Mammoth Trail
Expected Outcome Venue3009, 23rd Ave. SW. CalgaryFor the overwhelming majority of human existence human beings have belonged to small groups of people or “tribes”. These tribes were nomadic in nature and life revolved around surviving by gathering, fishing, and hunting. Everyone had a valued and occupied a needed place and felt a true sense of belonging out of which they experienced the joys, successes, failures, and deaths of members of the tribe together. The focus of this seminar will be an exploration of anticipatory grief as people diagnosed with a life limiting illness and their “tribe” walk the painful trail of loss and tears leading up to the death. The focus will be on supporting not only a patient but the entire group of their people individually and as a “tribe”.