Kübler-Ross on Symbolic Language: The Nonverbal Language of the Dying

Before words fail, and long after they have, the dying keep speaking: with the body, the hands, the eyes, the objects they keep close or give away, the things they make, and their silence. Children say the most this way, through play and drawings, and so do the brothers and sisters no one thinks to ask.

This companion to the verbal Symbolic Language course teaches what Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross herself noticed at the bedside and in the children's wards, how she invited a drawing and what she never said, and the limits she kept: a drawing is a hunch to be followed with a question, never a diagnosis.

7 modules · 29 written lessons · Self-paced · Lifetime access · Each lesson with its own graphics

For nurses, hospice and palliative staff, chaplains, physicians, death doulas, and family caregivers.