Summary: Episode Description: Frank talks about healing by being a companion to grief in the course of losing ourselves and the ones we love rather than trying to manage grief by imposing maps on it. Being a companion means going towards the uninvited whether it be wild behavior or numbness as it manifests in our body and soul. Bio : In 1987, Frank Ostaseski helped form the Zen Hospice Project, the first Buddhist hospice in America. In 2004, he created Metta Institute to broaden this work and seed the culture with innovative approaches to end-of-life care that reaffirm the spiritual dimensions of dying. A primary project of Metta Institute is the End-of-Life Care Practitioner Program that Frank leads with faculty members Ram Dass, Rachel Naomi Remen MD, and many others. Frank is a dynamic, original, and visionary workshop leader. His public programs throughout the United States and Europe have introduced thousands to the practices of mindful and compassionate care of the dying.
