We hold public, international seminars twice yearly in which we bring together international speakers from research and practice backgrounds around topics relevant to Compassionate Communities.
Below you'll find the videos and slides from our previous seminars!
7th COCO seminar "Museums' potential around serious illness, death and dying" - 22 May 2024.
With presentations from:
- Lieven De Visch is public mediation coordinator of the museums in Bruges, Belgium. He facilitates public engagement with a history of care in St John’s Hospital Museum.
- Carol Tishelman is professor at Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has researched how museums can facilitate discussions about
death and dying. Emel Yorganci and Annabel Farnood are researchers at King’s College in London and facilitated conversations about young people’s perceptions about dementia in museums.
7th-COCO-Seminar.pdf (146.72 KB) "pdf"
5th COCO seminar "The Value of Death" - 19 December 2022
- Dr. Libby Sallnow and dr. Afsan Bhadelia join us to talk about the Lancet Commission report on the Value of Death. (Link)
- Death, dying, and loss are universal human experiences, but the contention of the Lancet Commission is that they have become unfamiliar, disconnected, and unbalanced.
3rd COCO seminar "Mourning at Work" - 29 November 2021
- Dr. An Hooghe, clinical psychologist, relationship and family therapist, and founder of the expertise center 'Connection in Loss' gave a lecture about mourning in the workplace.
- For this, a sub-working group of the Compassionate VUB in collaboration with the 2 psychologists from BRUCC and the well-being coordinator Prof. Valéry Ann Jacobs developed a factsheet for staff on grief at work.
1st COCO seminar "Compassionate Schools" - 23 September 2020
- Dr. Sally Paul - "The role of Schools in Compassionate Communities" (Link)
- Bert Quintiens - Compassionate Plymouth (Link)
- Jeroen de Samblancx - Compassionate University VUB (Link)
6th COCO seminar "Grieving in public spaces" - 16 november 2023
With presentations from:
- Uus Knops, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author. In 2018 she wrote the book 'Casper', in which she talks about the search for her missing brother and the associated mourning process.
Sarah Dury, professor Adult Educational Sciences talks about the places of solace which have been developed in Belgium.
6th-COCO-Seminar.pdf (235.13 KB) "pdf"
4th COCO seminar "Masterclass in translational research " - 21 April 2022
- In collaboration with the Brussels University Consultation Centre (BRUCC), we organized a masterclass in translational research for PhD students, given by prof. dr. Janis Whitlock.
- In this translational research masterclass, we explored how communities can address the mental health challenges of adolescents and young adults affected by non-suicidal self-injury, suicide, serious illness, death, death, and loss.
2nd COCO seminar "Compassionate Art & Design" - 24 March 2021
- Introduction (Link)
- Keynote by prof. dr. Rebecca Hilton - "MY LAST PLACE: Tales from an artistic research residency in a residential care home (and other stories)" (Link)
- Julie Rodeyns - How to accompany someone into risk: a performance analysis of the immersive installation 'PURE' (Christian Bakalov), developed for and with the Belgian palliative and supportive day care centre of TOPAZ and its care-givers and care-receivers" (Link)
- Erika Sprey - "Reaching out to an unknowable other: dialogical performance at the intersection of storytelling, system dynamics and somatics" (Link)
- Prof. dr. Fabio Vanin - "Healing Luanda" (Link)