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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Date: Tuesday, 22/Oct/2024
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	Set 1: poster abstracts
9:30am - 10:30am	Registration Location: Bühnen Bern city theater / Stadttheater
10:30am - 11:00am	Welcoming ceremony Location: Bühnen Bern city theater / Stadttheater
11:00am - 12:30pm	Plenary 1: Connections - from compassion to self-compassion to clinical care Location: Bühnen Bern city theater / Stadttheater Chair: Philip J Larkin, CHUV /University of Lausanne, Switzerland Chair: Jason Mills, Flinders University, Australia Chair: Sofia C. Zambrano, University of Bern, Switzerland Language: English
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch break Location: Kornhauskeller
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Plenary 2: Death literacy - how to develop, how to measure Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Joachim Cohen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Chair: Ekkapop Sittiwantana, Compassionate Communities Research and Devlopment Institution Foundation Thailand, Thailand Chair: Carol Tishelman, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Language: English
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Coffee break Location: Kornhauskeller
4:00pm - 5:30pm	D-A-CH session 1: Die Care-Transformation in den DACH-Ländern … auf dem Weg zum gemeinsamen Verständnis. Location: Le Cap - Room "Nicolas Manuel" Language: German	Parallel Session 1a: Building equity Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Therese Johansson, King's College London, United Kingdom Chair: Stephen Robert Connor, Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, United States of America Language: English	Parallel session 1b: Supporting professional caregivers Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1" Chair: Sofia C. Zambrano, University of Bern, Switzerland Chair: Luc Deliens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Language: English	Parallel session 1c: Experiences of dying Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 2" Chair: Kelli Stajduhar, University of Victoria, Canada Chair: Bert Quintiens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Language: English	Workshop 1a: “What if our last breaths could be breathtaking?”: A “walkshop” exploring parks/nature connection in palliative and grief care Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Hodler" Language: English	Workshop 1b: Connecting communities in palliative care: Using a design science approach for co-developing humility guidance Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Fischer" Language: English	Workshop 1c: How to use storytelling and gamification to communicate complex realities? The case of the Stay Room™ and palliative care Location: Le Cap - Room "Arche/Refuge" Language: English
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Break
6:00pm - 8:00pm	Free classical concert: "Building Bridges" Location: French Church / Französische Kirche Free concert for all participants and the people from Bern and around. The concert takes place in the Französische Kirche Bern (French Church Bern) - with the choir of the Kirchenfeld Gymnasium Bern - with the instrumental ensemble of the Kirchenfeld Gymnasium Bern - with the cello quartet of the Swiss Medical Orchestra SMO - with Martin Hostettler, tenor

Date: Wednesday, 23/Oct/2024
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9:00am - 10:30am	Plenary 3: The end of life in marginalized populations Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Farzana Khan, University of Edinburgh / Fasiuddin Khan Research Foundation, Bangladesh, People's Republic of Chair: Kelli Stajduhar, University of Victoria, Canada Announcement of the PHPCI Community Building award winner Language: English
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break Location: Kornhauskeller
11:00am - 12:30pm	Art and culture experience 2: Rehearsal visit: the Bern Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Mario Venzago Location: Casino Bern The meeting point: entrance of Kornhauskeller	D-A-CH session 2: Die Care-Transformation in den DACH-Ländern … auf dem Weg zu einer gelebten Praxis. Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Anker" Impulse durch Community-Projekte Language: German	Parallel session 2a: Accessing care Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Malin Eneslätt, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Chair: Christian Ntizimira, African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda Language: English	Parallel session 2b: Promoting inclusion and participation Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1" Chair: Emma Hodges, Compassionate Communities UK, United Kingdom Chair: Joachim Cohen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Language: English	Parallel session 2c: Embracing story telling and caring cultures Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 2" Chair: Vilma Adriana Tripodoro, Institute Pallium Latinoamerica/ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care WHO CC, Argentine Republic Chair: Steven Vanderstichelen, Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise, Belgium Language: English	Workshop 2a: Evaluating Compassionate Communities initiatives: Learnings from the Compassionate Connector program Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Hodler" Language: English	Workshop 2b: Building a compassionate Community: where do I start? Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Fischer" Language: English	Workshop 2c: Away from words: Using art-making toalleviate death anxiety in the palliativecare workforce Location: Le Cap - Room "Arche/Refuge" Language: English
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch break incl. poster walk Location: Kornhauskeller The poster walk starts at 1:15 PM at the entrance to the poster exhibition Chair: Libby Sallnow, United Kingdom Chair: Joachim Cohen, Belgium
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Art and culture experience 3: Guided city walk Start: entrance of Kornhauskeller "Life in view, end in sight' is the motto of a walk on the subject of the end of life, which takes you from the cathedral platform to the Bernese Generation House. We will hear about the customs and rituals of the past, as well as the latest regulations on the end of life - a moving history, a festival of ideas and a cause that brings generations together. The tour ends where some ideas are put into action, and where you will find yourself asking questions you have never asked before.	D-A-CH session 3: Die Care-Transformation in den DACH-Ländern … auf dem Weg in die Zukunft. Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Anker" Language: German	French session Location: Le Cap - Room "Arche/Refuge" Chair: Sibylle Bart, Palliativakademie Bern, Switzerland Chair: Philip J Larkin, CHUV /University of Lausanne, Switzerland Language: French	Parallel session 3a: Experiencing bereavement and caregiving Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Julia Rehsmann, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Chair: Ekkapop Sittiwantana, Compassionate Communities Research and Devlopment Institution Foundation Thailand, Thailand Language: English	Parallel session 3b: Building death literacy Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1" Chair: Elizabeth Mary Johnson, The Peaceful Presence Project, United States of America Chair: Marc-Antoine Berthod, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland Language: English	Parallel session 3c: Adapting and reorientating health services Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 2" Chair: Samar Aoun, Perron Institute, Australia Chair: Jason Mills, Flinders University, Australia Language: English	Workshop 3a: Unpacking causality and impact in public health palliative care initiatives: Exploring research approaches Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Hodler" Language: English	Workshop 3b: Emerging compassionate communities in Japan and international partnership Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Fischer" Language: English
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Coffee break Location: Kornhauskeller
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Plenary 4: Bereavement companionship programs - luxury or societal standard? Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Saif Mohammed, Institute of Palliative Medicine, India Chair: Libby Sallnow, University College London, United Kingdom Announcement of the PHPCI Research Impact award winner Language: English
5:30pm - 6:30pm	Break
6:30pm - 9:00pm	Flying dinner - get togehter Location: Kornhauskeller Pre-registration required

Date: Thursday, 24/Oct/2024
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8:30am - 9:00am	Warm up: with Seniorstars Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall "Don Quixote Revisited" - Choreography by Clare Guss-West , Carla Winkelmann & Nina Müller
9:00am - 10:30am	Plenary 5: Global compassion! The ‘Bern Declaration’ on community engagement for the end of life Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Klaus Wegleitner, University of Graz, Austria Chair: Christian Ntizimira, African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda with - Marie Charlotte Bouësseau, former Team Leader at the WHO Integrated Health Services Department - Anne Lévy, Director-General of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Switzerland - Christian Ntizimira, Executive Director of African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda Language: English
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break Location: Kornhauskeller
11:00am - 12:30pm	Art and culture experience 4: Qi Gong Class Location: Waisenhausplatz in case of bad weather the event will take place in the French Church / Französische Kirche	Parallel session 4a: Developing sustainable policies Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Kerrie Noonan, Death Literacy Institute, Australia Chair: Allan Kellehear, Northumbria University, United Kingdom Language: English	Parallel session 4b: Volunteering and citizen perspectives Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1" Chair: Farzana Khan, University of Edinburgh / Fasiuddin Khan Research Foundation, Bangladesh, People's Republic of Chair: Birgit Weihrauch, Caring Community Köln; Verein Endlich Palliativ & Hospiz UK Köln e. V., Germany Language: English	Parallel session 4c: Creating public education Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 2" Chair: Claudia Michel, BFH, Switzerland Chair: Saif Mohammed, Institute of Palliative Medicine, India Language: English	SWISS session 1: Bereavement in the workplace - a public health issue Location: Le Cap - Room "Nicolas Manuel" Chair: Marc-Antoine Berthod, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland Chair: Corina Wirth, Public Health Schweiz, Switzerland Chair: Ursula Zybach, Nationalrätin, Switzerland Language: German and French	Workshop 4a: Fostering community engagement through Death and Grief Festivals: Insights from four case studies from Scotland, England, Belgium and Canada Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Hodler" Language: English	Workshop 4b: Successful public messaging about early palliative care: The 7 keys of the Waiting Room Revolution Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Fischer" Language: English	Workshop 4c: The art of invitation: convening community groups to promote participatory action learning Location: Le Cap - Room "Arche/Refuge" Language: English
12:30pm - 2:00pm	'Lunch break incl. poster walk Location: Kornhauskeller The poster walk starts at 1:15 PM at the entrance to the poster exhibition Chair: Kelli Stajduhar, Canada Chair: Klaus Wegleitner, Austria				EAPC: Reference group meeting Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall This meeting is open to all participants
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Art and culture experience 5: The Portrait Memoir of Love Location: Le Cap - Room "Arche/Refuge" Chair: Ekkapop Sittiwantana, Compassionate Communities Research and Devlopment Institution Foundation Thailand, Thailand	Parallel session 5a: Measuring death literacy Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Corina Wirth, Public Health Schweiz, Switzerland Chair: Roman Rolke, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany Language: English	Parallel session 5b: Transforming professional education Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1" Chair: Monica Fliedner, Inselspital, Switzerland Chair: Max Kleijberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Language: English	Parallel session 5c: Exploring research methodology Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 2" Chair: Klaus Wegleitner, University of Graz, Austria Chair: Raymond Voltz, University Hospital Köln, Germany Language: English	SWISS session 2: Wege zur Compassionate Community Location: Le Cap - Room "Nicolas Manuel" Chair: Claudia Michel, BFH, Switzerland Chair: Renate Gurtner Vontobel, palliative.ch, Switzerland Language: German and French	Workshop 5a: Building on evidence, experiences, and mutual reflections to develop Compassionate Schools: a practical workshop Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Hodler" Language: English	Workshop 5b: Africa in the spotlight: empowerment of people and communities Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Fischer" Language: English
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Coffee break Location: Kornhauskeller
4:00pm - 10:00pm	City festival endlich.menschlich. Free festival for all participants and the people from Bern and around. Opening speech at 4pm on the stage at Zeughausgasse.

Date: Friday, 25/Oct/2024
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9:00am - 10:30am	Art and culture experience 6: Exhibition “What comforts you?” and authors' talk on the new “Hidden object book on saying goodbye“ Location: Kornhausbibliothek / Kornhaus library (3rd floor of Kornhaus) The interactive exhibition invites us to reflect on our transience and what comforts us in moments of grief and despair. We will also gain an insight into the conception and stories of the new hidden object book by palliative care physician and family grief counselor Sophia Bartenstein and book illustrator Andrea Peter.	Parallel session 6a: Fostering compassionate communities Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Esther Nafula Wekesa, Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya Chair: Clément Meier, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Language: English	Parallel session 6b: Engaging with children and young adults Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1" Chair: Sibylle Felber, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland Chair: Guy Peryer, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Language: English	Parallel session 6c: Understanding and evaluating compassionate cities Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 2" Chair: Sally Paul, University of Strathlcyde, United Kingdom Chair: Libby Sallnow, University College London, United Kingdom Language: English	SWISS session 3: Self-reflection: how to stay healthy as a compassionate carer Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Anker" Chair: Philip J Larkin, CHUV /University of Lausanne, Switzerland Chair: Julia Rehsmann, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Language: German and French	Workshop 6a: Towards equity-oriented palliative care: A pan-Canadian workshop on improvements in palliative care for individuals experiencing homelessness or vulnerable housing Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Hodler" Language: English	Workshop 6b: Disrupting Death; Engaging in community conversations about Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Location: Hotel Kreuz - Room "Fischer" Language: English	Workshop 6c: Compassionate Workplaces in Europe: sharing experiences and resources Location: Le Cap - Room "Arche/Refuge" Language: English
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break Location: Kornhauskeller
11:00am - 12:30pm	Plenary 6: Compassionate cities international Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Chair: Vilma Adriana Tripodoro, Institute Pallium Latinoamerica/ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care WHO CC, Argentine Republic Chair: Allan Kellehear, Northumbria University, United Kingdom Chair: Steffen Eychmueller, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland Announcement of the PHPCI Early Career award winner Language: English
12:30pm - 1:00pm	Conference wrap up Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall Language: English
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Take away lunch bags Location: Kornhauskeller
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Art and culture experience 7: Reflection path From the beginning and the end. Take some time for yourself and immerse yourself in the beautiful, peaceful atmosphere at the Bremgarten cemetery. Take a walk along the path of reflection with a guided tour by Barbara Shankar. You willl encounter philosophical, poetic, comforting and encouraging texts and impulses for dealing with the subject of life and death. Bremgartenfriedhof (cemetery) can be reached by public transport from the main train station (up stairs near the parking). Take bus (Post Auto) #100 or 101, destination Bremgartenfriedhof. Parking for private cars is limited. Meeting Point: main office
2:00pm - 5:00pm	The Digital Legacy Conference 2024 Location: Le Cap - Room "Nicolas Manuel" The Digital Legacy Conference 2024 will take place as part of PHPCI. It is an annual conference that explores and celebrates the positive impact technology can have within the end of life and bereavement. Attendees will learn about emerging best practices in areas relating to digital assets planning and digital legacy safeguarding. It is free to attend for all PHPCI badgeholders.

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