Overview
A gentle, practical workshop to help you support your loved ones and yourself through the journey of terminal illness and end-of-life care.
Caring for someone with a terminal illness, especially cancer, is one of life’s most heart-stretching roles. Often, carers are caught between trying to do their best and coping with a rollercoaster of emotions — fear, grief, guilt, helplessness. This one-day workshop offers a safe space to better understand these emotional dynamics, learn how to support meaningfully, and walk away with tools to care with compassion and resilience.
What is This Course About?
This course creates a safe, supportive space for carers to pause, reflect, and grow. It offers more than just coping strategies — it invites you to explore the deeper emotional journey of caregiving and how it transforms you.
You’ll learn how to sit with difficult emotions, hold space for someone in pain, and make sense of the personal impact caregiving has on your identity, relationships, and inner world.
Through guided reflections, peer sharing, and practical frameworks, you’ll walk away with:
A deeper understanding of your emotional responses
Tools to support others without depleting yourself
Space to process what it means to care — and to grieve
Whether you’re currently caring for someone or preparing for that role, this course equips you not just to “do,” but to be present — with calm, clarity, and care.
Why This Course Matters
Have you ever felt like you’re carrying the emotional weight of caregiving alone?
When caring for someone with cancer or a terminal illness, it’s easy to put your own needs last. Over time, this can lead to emotional burnout, silent grief, and a deep sense of isolation.
Carers Often Suffer in Silence
Most carers focus entirely on the needs of their loved one, leaving little time to process their own emotions. Without support, this can lead to unspoken stress, resentment, or even breakdown.
Grief Begins Before Loss Happens
Anticipatory grief — the mourning that starts before someone passes — is real, heavy, and often misunderstood. Learning to recognize and cope with it is essential for emotional health.
Support Is a Skill That Can Be Strengthened
You don’t have to do this alone. With the right tools and mindset, you can build emotional resilience, communicate with compassion, and care in a way that honors both your loved one and yourself.
Learn how to support meaningfully — while staying emotionally grounded.
Course Structure: Designed for Personal Breakthroughs
In this course, you will learn key skills:
Understanding the Emotional Landscape of Caregiving
Recognise common emotional struggles faced by carers, including guilt, anticipatory grief, and emotional exhaustion.
Learn how terminal illness impacts relationships, identity, and communication.
Develop emotional awareness to respond with compassion — to others and yourself.
Skills for Supportive and Meaningful Conversations
Learn how to listen deeply and respond with empathy, not advice.
Understand what to say (and not say) during moments of distress, silence, or conflict.
Build confidence in having open conversations around illness, loss, and letting go.
Sustaining the Self While Supporting Others
Identify signs of burnout and secondary stress — and what to do about it.
Learn practical self-care strategies for the mind and heart.
Reflect on your own caregiving journey to find meaning, balance, and personal growth.
Who is this course for?
For the
Compassionate Carers
Support Your Loved One with Confidence
Do you feel emotionally overwhelmed or unsure how to support a loved one facing terminal illness?
For the Concerned Family Members
Navigate Grief and Connection with Grace
Are you struggling with anticipatory grief or strained family dynamics while caregiving?
For the Supportive Volunteers or Community Workers
Deepen Your Emotional Support Skills
Do you want to better support those facing life-limiting illness or loss in your volunteer or pastoral role?
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
Examine the emotional and relational impact of terminal illness on carers
Identify anticipatory grief, caregiver fatigue, and silent suffering
Apply tools for difficult conversations — what to say, how to listen, when to pause
Develop coping strategies to maintain your own emotional health and avoid burnout
Making space for meaning: Reframing the caregiving journey as growth
Course Duration
8 hours face-to-face learning
Upcoming Schedules
Here is our updated class schedule:
Course Dates: 30 July 2025 (Wednesday), 0900 – 1700
Couse Fees: $359/ $190 pax
Instalment payments are available via Atome. Please contact our administrator during sign-up.
“This course is approved under the UTAP for NTUC members. NTUC members may enjoy up to 50% unfunded course fee support for up to $250 each year when you sign up for courses supported under UTAP.”
For more information on claims criteria and processes, you may visit NTUC website here.
Course approved period: 1st March 2025 – 31st March 2027
We conduct in-house corporate courses too! Contact us @ 90615844 or hello@blendedconcept.com for more details on how you can engage us for corporate retreats, workshops or events.
Meet Your Guide
Tan Hui Ping
Private Practice Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor
Hui Ping is a psychosocial counsellor, clinical supervisor, and trainer with over 20 years of experience across hospitals, correctional services, and community work. She was Principal Counsellor at Parkway Cancer Centre, where she supported individuals and families facing cancer, and developed caregiver support programmes. She has spoken locally and overseas on coping with grief, mental wellness, and end-of-life care.
She holds a Master of Social Science (Counselling) and a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Supervision. Hui Ping is also trained in Palliative Psychosocial Care, Psychological First Aid, and Counselling Children and Adolescents. Participants appreciate her warm, grounded, and deeply human approach to facilitation.
Ready to Make a Difference?
Seats are filling fast for our upcoming Caring Through The End programme. Don’t miss your chance to begin a journey that transforms not just your life, but the lives of those you support.
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