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We’re heading to Winnipeg

In an effort to open up our willingness to talk about dying and death, Saint Elizabeth Health Care is collaborating with Palliative Manitoba to bring the Reflection Room to Winnipeg. The Reflection Room will be set-up at the St. James-Assiniboia and Fort Garry branches of the Winnipeg

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The Reflection Room participates in Compassionate City Charter

The Reflection Room will part of the Compassionate City Charter event in Burlington, Ontario the first week of October. An event lead by Carpenter House Hospice, the Compassionate City Charter is a community initiative that focuses on increasing awareness and utilization of both existing and new palliative care

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Reflection Room joins group art exhibition: September 17th to November 6th, 2016

Reflection Room joins group art exhibition: September 17th to November 6th, 2016

We are excited to bring The Reflection Room to Wellington County as part of the Death Perceptions that is an exhibition of over 100 original works of County art designed to promote a conversation about death and dying. Plan to visit the Wellington County Museum — 0536 Wellington Rd. 18, between

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Visit us in Saskatoon from September 20 to 22, 2016

Visit us in Saskatoon from September 20 to 22, 2016

The Reflection Room will be visiting St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan this September. Find us in the Multi-faith Stillness Room on the 5th floor beside the Palliative Care Unit.

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Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD5) Symposium, October 13 to 15, 2016

Dr. Paul Holyoke, Director of the Saint Elizabeth Research Centre and Karen Oikonen, Research Associate at Saint Elizabeth, will sharing The Reflection Room project at the RSD5 Symposium at OCAD University in October, 2016. The Reflection Room: Shifting from death-avoiding to death-discussing will focus on how human-centred design and qualitative research,

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Hike or Bike for Hospice Vaughan on June 5, 2016

Join us at the Hike or Bike for Hospice Vaughan on Sunday, June 5th. We will be setting up a Reflection Room onsite at Boyd Park, Green Acres Picnic Area, 8739 Islington Ave in Vaughan, Ontario. Click here for more information about the event and how you can participate and raise funds to support

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Hospice Palliative Care Conference, April 2016

Join us at the Hospice Palliative Care Conference on April 17th & 18th, 2016 held at The Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Convention Centre in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Dr. Paul Holyoke, Director of the Saint Elizabeth Research Centre and Karen Oikonen, Research Associate at Saint Elizabeth, will be

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Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Conference 2015

At the 2015 Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Saint Elizabeth invited attendees to visit the first installation of The Reflection Room to pause, recharge and remember an experience with palliative care over the past year. A collaboration between Karen and Saint Elizabeth Research Centre Director, Paul

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