PalliLearn: What is palliative care?
May 5, 2026 · 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Palliative care is more than you think. Learn what palliative care is and why it’s important in clear language that you can share with the people around you.
WebinarWebinars
Our virtual learning opportunities enable health care practitioners and community organizers across Alberta to support one another through webinars, lectures, communities of practice, and case-based learning.
From 2022 to 2025, the Palliative Institute was a hub partner with the Palliative Care ECHO Project led by Pallium Canada. This national initiative offered free online programs to share innovations and best practices in palliative care. That philosophy continues through the virtual learning sessions offered by the Palliative Institute.
Upcoming sessions
PalliLearn: How to have conversations about dying and grief
May 26, 2026 · 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Conversations about dying and grief are important but can be hard. This course provides practical tips on how to have caring and compassionate conversations on these topics with the people around you.
WebinarPsychosocial-Spiritual Alberta Community of Practice 2025-26
Recurring event May 12, 2026 · 12:00pm - 1:00pm Next Event: June 12, 2026 · 12:00pm - 1:00pm
This community of practice seeks to develop the clinical and self-care skills of professionals providing psychosocial-spiritual care to palliative patients, families and the bereaved in Alberta.
WebinarPast sessions
Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Community of Practice
Presentation slides
2025-26
2024-25
- Palliative sedation
- Midazolam sedation nursing job aid
- Hospice palliative care community of practice
- Swallowing and comfort eating at end of life
- Orientation and continuing education for nurses in palliative care
- Dementia and grief
- Pain and Anxiety Medications at End of Life from a Palliative Nurse Consultant Perspective
Plan Ahead Alberta series
- How to improve your planning for future health care: Tips from a physician, lawyer and the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee
- Empowering Organizations with the Plan Ahead Toolkit: Training with the Plan Ahead Toolkit
- Supporting Albertans in Planning Ahead
- Planning for Life’s Journey
- Introducing Advance Care Planning
Psychosocial-Spiritual Alberta Community of Practice
In palliative and grief care, there is often a component of suffering that we cannot “fix” or “take away”. Instead, as psychosocial-spiritual professionals we are called to companion and support, foster coping, processing, treatment, and sometimes healing. This COP seeks to develop the clinical and self-care skills of professionals providing psychosocial-spiritual care to palliative patients, families and the bereaved in Alberta. Developed with Alberta content, this series is open to social workers, spiritual care providers, creative arts therapists, occupational therapists, Indigenous liaisons, counsellors, psychologists, nurses and other clinicians providing emotional and spiritual support.
Presentation slides
2025-26
- Member sharing and PalliPro updates
- Guided imagery and music approaches for palliative and grief care
- Childhood grief: Supporting children through loss
- Recognizing and realizing the value family caregivers bring to palliative care
- Deepening Connections
- Narrative Medicine and Reflective Writing
2024-25
Psychosocial-Spiritual Alberta series
Developed with Alberta content, the Psychosocial-Spiritual Alberta Series explores topics relevant to emotional, spiritual, and grief support in palliative care and bereavement as well as self-care for clinicians.
Registrants will be provided access to video recordings of the sessions and related resources. Please contact us if you have not received a password to access this page.