Flexing Your Core ECHO-Essentials of Communication
2026-01-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver)
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Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series
This session we will discuss foundational communication skills and explore a person-centered framework used to guide conversations focusing on what’s important to a person with life-limiting illness. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss providing virtual care.
Competency domains: Communication; Virtual Care

Flexing Your Core ECHO-Goals in Motion: Achieving What Matters
2026-02-04 12:00 - 13:00
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Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series
In this session we will identify the importance of determining a person’s goals for their care and discuss key elements of Advance Care Planning and Advocacy. Participants will discuss a case study to apply their learnings.
Competency domains: Care planning and Collaborative Practice; Advocacy

Inclusive Pathways in LTC - Building Belonging for 2SLGBTQIA+ Older Adults in Care
2026-02-10 12:00 - 13:00
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Session recording: YouTube

Part of the All Together ECHO Series
2SLGBTQIA+ older adults continue to face systemic barriers, invisibility, and unmet needs across hospice, palliative, and long-term care. This session shares lessons from the first year of a two-year provincial initiative led by Dignity Seniors Society to strengthen safer, more welcoming care pathways for 2SLGBTQIA+ people at the end of life. The session opens with Labhrás Quigley introducing the Inclusive Long-Term Care Project, its origins, partnerships across health authorities, and the progress made toward affirming care for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults throughout British Columbia. Through stories, emerging findings, and practical tools, participants will reflect on how care providers and health systems can build capacity and foster environments grounded in belonging, safety, and dignity.
Presenter: Labhrás Quigley, Project Lead, Dignity Seniors Society

Flexing Your Core ECHO-Supporting Grief & Loss
2026-02-11 12:00 - 13:00
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Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series
In this session, we will discuss how each person’s grief experience is unique. Participants will work through scenarios discussing ways to support patients, families, and colleagues.
Competency domain: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement

Flexing Your Core ECHO-At the Core of Caring
2026-02-18 12:00 - 13:00
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Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series
As healthcare providers, we know self-care is important, yet it’s something many of us may not take time to reflect on. This session we will focus on our own self-care needs and discuss ways to support each other, ourselves and our colleagues.
Competency domain: Self-care

Flexing Your Core ECHO-Providing Comfort & Care
2026-02-25 12:00 - 13:00
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Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series
This session is an introduction to promoting comfort and quality of life for people with a life-limiting illness and their family. Together we will discuss supporting symptom management as someone transitions through their last days and hours of life.
Competency domains: Optimizing Comfort and Quality of Life; Last Days & Hours

Flexing Your Core ECHO-The Leading Edge
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00
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Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series
In this session we will identify and discuss common issues in palliative care, and we will talk through steps to take in addressing ethical issues by discussing a case scenario. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on how education, evaluation, QI and research are important in palliative care contexts.
Competency domains: Professional & Ethical Practice; Education, Evaluation, Quality Improvement, Research

Compassionate Dementia Inclusive Communities
2026-03-11 12:00 - 13:00
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Part of the All Together ECHO Series
A sneak peek of how 3 social health movements Nav-CARE, dementia-inclusive movement and Compassionate Communities – are helping to empower and support people living with early-onset dementia, their families. An overview of ongoing project and stories from 6 Canadian communities at work who are raising awareness and helping to improve quality of life of people living with dementia and the care partners.
Presenter: Melody Jobse, Community Engagement Lead BCCPC and Community Development specialist, UBCO

Goals of Care in the Acute Care Setting: Drawing in the Team
2026-03-18 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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Part of our Updated & Innovations in Essential Conversations for the Health Care Team ECHO Series.
Presenter: Dara Lewis, MSN(c), BSN, CHPCN Vancouver Coastal Health, Clinical Educator and Lead, Vancouver Acute
Goals of Care Support Team (previously RPACE)

Advance Care Planning for Indigenous Communities
2026-04-16 12:00 - 13:00
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Part of the All Together ECHO Series
Presenter: Carol Fulcher, Program Coordinator + Community Liaison, Merritt and District Hospice Society

Neurodivergence, grief, and bereavement
2026-04-30 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series
This virtual session will have a presentation with Q & A. Session poster you can print and share linked here.
Presenter: Jess Holtslander, RSW, MSW, RCC, Sun & Clouds Counselling
This series is for anyone interested in increasing their knowledge around grief and bereavement to support them personally or in their professional careers.
