Liz brings her Buddhist wisdoms to our reflections on the quality of compassion and its roots in our relationships with others and ourselves. Liz is developing her practice in systems-centered training which promotes recognition that we are part of a whole picture instead of just our chaplaincy part, and helps us to recognise ourselves as active members in creating the wider systems that shape ourselves and the organisations we belong to. We share thoughts about our own practice in being with people in their darkness and doubt, wondering about compassion fatigue, boundaries and capacity. Liz explains her commitment to research which evidences the contribution of chaplaincy, offering up a poem ('Poem for the Emergency Department' - see our resources section on our website for a PDF) that she wrote to summarise the findings of her research in an emergency department, assessing unmet needs in elderly palliative patients alongside her clinical colleagues.
