BHLP Tier 2:

Delaware Hospice

Reimagine Week
Catherine Hogan
Carley Leibowitz
Cameron Miles
 Honoring Choices’ Mission
To cultivate a community of innovative, collaborative healthcare
professionals who embrace, engage, and educate all Delawareans about
advanced care so they are empowered to make end-of-life choices
reflecting their values and beliefs and to power a cultural transformation
that normalizes end-of-life conversations, and ensures all Delawareans
receive superior, person-centered care reflecting their values and
honoring their dignity.
 The Team

Catherine Hogan Carley Leibowitz Cameron Miles

True Color: Blue True Color: Gold

True Color: Orange Goals: think outside
Goals: to learn
Goals: learn event the box for event
how to plan an
planning and coordinating, ideas and be more
online event and
work passionately as a comfortable
network with
team, and inspire others!! networking
speakers
 Goals for Reimagine Week
Establish Plan Promote

Set up event and make Get speakers, plan Spread the word on
sure everything is going workshops social media about
to run smoothly Reimagine Week

Inspire the Audience Teamwork Enjoy the end result

Encourage embracing Use teamwork in After planning, attend

life, facing death, living planning and executing event and celebrate hard
and loving fully event work
 Become
acquainted with
Timeline
organization and
goals, research
other Reimagine
events, brainstorm Finalize session date
event ideas and time, begin social
media outreach

September-November December-February March April

Reach out to potential Continue social

speakers, draft session media outreach,
descriptions, start facilitate sessions
planning Reimagine during Reimagine
Week schedule Week and
conduct
post-event
analysis
 Intended Outcomes
● Engage our community in dynamic, meaningful
discussions
● Provide opportunities for education, healing and
processing, and growth
● Come together to explore and transform our
approach to life and death
● Shed some light, love and, hope on such a dark
topic
Social Media
Our team made an Instagram
account to spread the word
about Reimagine Week!
Metrics of Assessment
Hosted 6 Workshops:

Overall attendance: About 20 people

per workshop. 107 participants total

Available to people worldwide on the

Reimagine website

https://letsreimagine.org/
 Speakers we recruited
1. Lynn Worden, Associate Professor, University of Delaware
○ Helping Children Grieve after Losing a Parent to Suicide
2. Alan Fox, Ph.D., Professor, Asian and Comparative Philosophy and
Religion, University of Delaware
○ Self and No-Self: A Buddhist Re-imagining Death and Dying
3. Leslie Reidel, Professor, Theatre Department, University of Delaware-
○ Shakespeare: Love, Death and Transformation
4. Vanesa Simon, Owner, Vanesa Mariposa Arts
○ Zentangle© Meditative Art Method
5. Tyson Sukava, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Delaware
○ A Life Preparing for Death: Tales from Ancient Greece
6. Rabbi Nick Renner, Senior Jewish Educator, University of Delaware-
○ Contemporary Spirituality and Jewish Traditions about Death and
Dying
 Strengths and Shadows
Catherine
Strengths: Go Getter, Helper
Shadows: Workaholic, Drudge

Carley
Strengths: Go- Getter, Merry Maker, Guardian
Shadows: People-Pleaser, Critic

Cameron
Strengths: Helper, Mentor, Gentle Heart
Shadows: Workaholic, Victim, Critic
 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
Inattention
to Results
Absence
of Trust

Fear of Avoidance
Conflict

Lack of
Commitment
 The 3 C’s
And no it’s not Catherine, Carley, and Cameron!

Collaboration Controversy with Civility Common Purpose

Worked with Different We all worked
Executive Director viewpoints on together with the
of Honoring certain sessions: same goal of
Choices, various multicultural creating an
speakers, other panel vs informative event
colleagues, and individual with different
each other! sessions cultural aspects
 Challenges
● Worked with assistants after liaison took medical
leave
● Navigated way through uncertainty with events
● Outreach
● Uncertainty at times
 Successes/Wins
● Networked with many people to spread the word
● Were able to coordinate times with speakers
● Technology ran smoothly
● Facilitated successful workshop sessions with
20+ attendees
● In total we had over 100+ attendees throughout
the week long event
Workshop Reflections + Takeaways
Catherine
Leslie Riedel: Shakespeare workshop

Carley
Dr. Lynn Worden
Dr. Tyson Sukava
Rabbi Nick Renner

Cameron
Dr. Fox: Buddhist views on death