Mindful Microdosing: Taking Greater Agency in Aging and End of Life

Cultivating cognitive resilience as we age and prepare for end of life

$315 members/$350 non-members
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8.0 CEs Available | Sessions are Recorded

What if aging and end of life were not simply stages to manage, but invitations to become more intentional about how we live, relate, and prepare for what comes next?

Following her EOLPC workshop, Mindfulness, Microdosing, and Dementia, Lauren Alderfer, PhD, returns to EOLPC to explore how mindfulness and mindful microdosing can inform a broader relationship with aging and end of life.

Rather than approaching aging only through the lens of decline, this 4-session, 8-hour course invites participants to examine the beliefs and assumptions we carry about growing older and dying, while exploring how mindful microdosing may support brain health as we age. Each session begins with a guided mindfulness practice, building over the course into a personal toolkit for intentional aging and preparation for end of life.

Lauren brings together mindfulness practice and the practical foundations of microdosing to help participants develop their own guiding principles for aging and end of life. Within this framework, microdosing becomes one tool for supporting brain health and a more intentional approach to how we age, live, and prepare for what comes next.

Through mindful inquiry, self-reflection, and sharing, participants will:

• Establish a foundation of mindfulness qualities
• Experience several mindfulness practices tailored to preparation for EoL
• Contemplate beliefs around aging and EoL
• (Re)Define aging and EoL
• Learn the nuts and bolts of microdosing
• Learn a microdosing protocol for brain health
• Establish a container to support mindful aging and EoL

BONUS: Participants will receive access to the recording of Lauren’s first EOLPC workshop, Mindfulness, Microdosing, and Dementia, providing additional grounding in the relationship between mindfulness, microdosing, brain health, and cognitive aging.

Please note: This course is highly interactive and is best experienced live. The sessions will be recorded, however, if you are unable to attend.

Who This Is For

This workshop is for end-of-life practitioners, people facing mortality, and those who love and care for them, including:

• Palliative and Hospice Care Professionals
• Chaplains and Spiritual Care Practitioners
• End-of-Life Doulas
• People living with serious or life-limiting illness
• People navigating aging, grief, or their own mortality
• Family members, loved ones, and caregivers

Agenda

There will be four two-hour sessions held online over Zoom, and sessions will be recorded.

Session 1 | 10/26, 12-2pm ET/9-11am PT
GROUNDING THE JOURNEY: Mindfulness, Beliefs & Principles

Session 2 | 11/2 12-2pm ET/9-11am PT
BUILDING A TOOLKIT: Mindful Microdosing Nuts & Bolts

Session 3 | 11/9, 12-2 pm ET/9-11am PT
SUPPORTING THE PATH: Microdosing Protocol for Brain Health

Session 4 | 11/16, 12-2pm ET/9-11am PT
THE JOURNEY’S COMPASS: Intention and Assessment, Takeaways & Final Reflections

Each session will begin with a guided mindfulness practice. These practices will be springboards to each week’s theme while also helping participants build a personal toolkit of mindfulness practices specifically tailored to support mindful aging.

Certificate of Completion and CEs

Upon successful completion of the program and completion of the course survey, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion. 8.0 CEs are pending for licensed nurses and mental health professionals,and physical therapists, depending on state. Please email info@eolpc.org to check eligibility. Psilocybin facilitators licensed in Oregon and Colorado may submit the Certificate of Completion, along with the detailed curriculum for Continuing Education credits through OPS and DORA.

EOLPC Cancellation Policy

Upon written notification, a 100% refund will be given up to 4 weeks before the start of the program, 50% refund will be given between 2 and 4 weeks prior to the start of the program and no refund will be given within 13 days of the start of the program.