Gillian McConnell
GILLIAN MCCONNELL is a designer, actor and Psychosynthesis practitioner. She also paints, writes, makes film montages and jewelry. Her book Rooms has been used as a teaching aid for medical, social work and poetry students in Canada and the United States.
Personal:
Psychosynthesis practitioner specializing in grief. Informed about and comfortable with alternative lifestyles, transgender issues and people with artistic sensibilities.
Trained palliative care volunteer and bereavement facilitator with over twenty years experience at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Canada and at the Montreal General hospital.
Fashion designer and painter trained in the UK at The Regional College of Art Manchester.
Publications:
Co-authored Beyond the Broken Heart: Accompanying the Bereaved. Published by Chenelière/McGraw-Hill. Also available in French. Au-delà des coeurs brisés: L’accompagnement des personnes en deuil.
Rooms: Ready and Not Ready to Die. Published by Publish America.
Naughty Granny’s Secret Diary. A book of cartoons. Published by Dreyfus Press.
Presentations:
Photographed and set to music film presentations of ‘Reflections’ for the Plenary Sessions at the International Congresses for the Terminally Ill. Montreal 2006, 2008, 2010 & 2012.
Poster presentation at the International Congress for the Terminally Ill. September 2006.
Co-presented a workshop on grief facilitation at the International Congress for the Terminally Ill. September 2004.
Film:
Farewell: A Reflection on Living, Loving, and Dying. A film montage.