A Heart-to-Heart with Dr. Jonathan Fisher (In-Person)

Central New York Community Foundation

431 East Fayette Street, 13202, Syracuse, NY, United States

Saint Marianne Cope Museum

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Marianne is our inspiration for programming that supports individuals and professionals navigating the healthcare field. As a pioneer in palliative and hospice care, Marianne and her community role-model compassionate empathy and servant leadership.Healing as whole mind, body and spiritual care.In collaboration with Francis House (providing a home and extended family to persons with termincal illnesses), we provide education, resources and support to those caring for or experience a life-chaning diagnosis.At theSaint Marianne Cope Museum, we celebrate a woman who was a pioneer in holistic healthcare. Her innovations in hygiene and hospital care, patients’ rights and whole mind, body and spirit healing, are especially relevant today. The compassion, hope, beauty and dignity given to her patients in the hospitals she administered is the foundation that we build upon through providing support services for people experiencing life’s challenges.The Sister Kathleen Osbelt Center ofFrancis Houseuses our experience as a social-model of community care for the dying and our Franciscan values to increase awareness, educate, serve, and support persons with terminal illness and those who care for them. Our core values of compassion, acceptance, respect and dignity guide and inform our care and outreach. We offer community education aligned with empowering a healthy and natural dying and grieving process, and to support compassionate care for people on the journey at the end-of-life.TheCompassionate Heart Series, presented by Saint Marianne Cope Museum in collaboration with Francis House is a series of programs that support the values of presence, respect and empathy to caregivers and patients.This ongoing series includes meaningful workshops and gatherings, such as an August book study of “Just One Heart” by Jonathan Fisher, MD, FACC and centers around a special Heart-to-Heart Conversation with Dr. Fisher in September. Each session offers a blend of reflection, storytelling, learning, and community. It is designed to nurture the inner lives of those who so often put others first.Participants will learn how to align heart and mind in moments of care, navigate emotional challenges like burnout and moral injury, and rediscover meaning in the sacred act of caregiving. Whether you’re a healthcare professional, advocate, or family caregiver, this talk, and all the Compassionate Heart Series programs will offer powerful tools to care for others without losing yourself along the way.The museum is dedicated to the life and legacy of Saint Marianne. Through displays showcasing her stories and artifacts, audio-visual exhibits, and educational outreach, we are able to share her message of respect and compassion. Marianne’s story continues to be relevant today in her care for the sick and suffering; providing compassion and hope. Her innovations in infection control and hospital care, patient’s rights and whole mind, body, spirit healing offer us a foundation for service in our community. The beauty and dignity that she incorporated into the lives of the patients in the hospitals where she administered and cared for the thousands suffering from leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in Hawaii reflect the faith and courage of her Franciscan values. Empathy in Action is a community program of the Saint Marianne Cope Shrine & Museum, a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neuman Communities.Our mission is to take the values of Marianne and her Sisters and apply them to the challenges we are facing in today's society. The Sisters have provided peace to individuals across time and across the nation. This care is provided equally no matter race, religion, economic means, personal choice, belief or nationality. The driving force behind these women of faith is dignity and respect for every person.