Book Author Workshop
Living Well with Illness: Discussion and Practices from “Leaves Falling Gently”
Three 90-minute live sessions plus recordings, November 2025REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
This online workshop is for individuals living with serious illness and their loved ones. Led by the author of Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, & Connectedness, the program integrates key insights from the book, guided meditations, and group discussions. Participants will gain practical tools and develop inner resources to experience:
- Comfort and ease: Learn mindfulness practices tailored specifically for people facing the challenges of serious illness and their loved ones: managing pain and other physical symptoms, navigating uncertainty and life changes, and coping with emotional ups and downs.
- An open heart: Explore heart-opening practices that cultivate loving-kindness, self-compassion, generosity, and gratitude. Learn to recognize everyday blessings, fostering loving awareness and contentment even when dealing with illness-related stress.
- Receptivity in receiving help: Gain insight and skills to shift from resistance to receptivity in asking for and receiving assistance from others.
- More connection: Strengthen connections with others through mindful communication approaches. Connect with others in the workshop who are also navigating the complexities of health issues. Awaken your sense of connection with the natural world, a nourishing wellspring.
- Meaning and joy: Connect more fully with what matters most to you, which will help you in setting priorities at this time in your life. In turn, joy will naturally flow and ripple out throughout each day.
Date and Time Details:
3 consecutive weekly sessions
Sundays, November 9, 16 & 23, 2025
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST
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Workshop Features:
- Three 90-Minute Online Sessions: Engage in live, interactive sessions with the author, Susan Bauer-Wu, and fellow participants.
- Optional Learning Partners: Connect with a fellow participant for mutual support and encouragement throughout the three weeks of the workshop.
- Home Assignments: Deepen your learning and integrate into your daily life through reading (or listening to) book chapters and engaging in reflective exercises and activities.
- Recordings: Receive audio-video recordings that summarize key take-aways from the book Leaves Falling Gently as well as guided meditations.
Susan brings an incredible perspective to the conversation about wellness and living with purpose… She brings calmness and love with her to every conversation
I have attended several of Susan’s workshops, and I learn something new every time. She is a wealth of wisdom
Susan is a wise steward of the journey to help you clarify intentions about how you would like your legacy conveyed in the future… Her (workshop) was a valuable and important experience.
