Moments of Meaning: Jill Cox and Kate Diggory in conversation

This salon will explore the importance of compassion when coming to terms with a relative or friend being diagnosed with a life-limiting illness. How do we find the right way to support our loved ones, and how do we make time to show compassion to ourselves?

Please note, the salon will include frank discussions of death and dying.

Jill Cox

Jill is a self-employed carer in her community and a Carer Support Worker at Hospice of the Good Shepherd (Chester). Compassion is part of her work on a daily basis - supporting unpaid carers as they care for their loved ones, helping them identify how they might use self-compassion in their daily lives and using self-compassion as part of her own routine.

Writing from her personal experiences, volunteering in her community and from her paid work, Jill self-published a short, easy to read book in 2017 - 'Moments of Meaning: Living Life whilst Facing Death'. It's aimed at providing support and useful information to those who, for the first time, have recently discovered their loved one has been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness. Moments of Compassion is a chapter in her book.

Jill's book is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1543285554/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_7CB8EE247RGQY19Q4GE0

More information can be found on Jill's website:

www.jillcox.co.uk

Kate Diggory

Kate Diggory (PhD)

Kate is a mindfulness and self-compassion teacher, accredited counsellor, supervisor, researcher and lecturer. She has extensive experience working in the Hospice movement as a counsellor supporting adult patients and bereaved family members including children and young people. She has been a carer several times in her personal life and is currently a carer of her adult child who lives with a chronic illness. For her PhD she researched a brief self-compassion training for carers of individuals with life-limiting and terminal illness.

www.katediggory.com

The Compassion Salon

The Compassion Salon was founded by Dr Marti Balaam (@DrMartiBalaam). Marti is a healthcare educationalist, researcher and social scientist who has worked in medical, nursing, health, and social care education for over 25 years. She is currently a Lecturer in Medical Education and Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh and is Lead for Professionalism and Wellbeing within the undergraduate medical programme. She is passionate about the power of compassion and how we can integrate it into innovative curricula to transform society. Marti works with Global partners to develop programmes of work, share new strategies on compassionate engagement and learn from global and local experiences of how other communities practice compassion. The Salon, Marti states, is 'a place for people to connect, inspire, and support using books and prose to reflect on human existence in a fragmented and challenging world'.

Twitter: @saloncompassion

Instagram: @thecompassionsalon

Website: www.compassionsalon.co.uk

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