Twilight Brigade
VTara is trained as a Twilight Brigade / Compassion in Action CIA) Volunteer
Dannion is co-founder of The Twilight Brigade / Compassion in Action (CIA), an international organization that recruits, trains, and places volunteers, with the goal of providing companionship during the last months of life. This program is providing a much-needed link to assure quality for end-of-life care. VTara is a CIA Volunteer.
The sole purpose of Twilight Brigade's bedside volunteers is to provide comfort, reassurance, and compassionate support to the dying and their loved ones.
Service at no cost is provided by trained volunteers to the patient and/or family!
Volunteer Training includes...
- Understanding & Maintaining Confidentiality
- How To Provide Unconditional Positive Regard
- How To Be Present in the Moment
- How To Sincerely Listen While Refraining From Problem Solving
- An Unprecedented Understanding and Respect the Dying Process
- How To Facilitate the Life Review With an Emphasis on Appreciation and Closure
- How To Heal the Fears Surrounding Death and Dying
- How to Be a Loving Source of Support and Strength through the Dying
Conscious Death Prayer from, the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Guru Rinpoche adapted by Carolyn Brent (n.k.a. Cayelin Castell)
Envisioning and invoking a presence of light embodying truth, wisdom, love and compassion (i.e. Kwan Yin, Mother Mary, Jesus, Buddha, Healing Angels, etc.) pray thus: Holy Divine Mother.
Through your blessing, grace, and guidance, through the power of the light that streams from you: All my negative karma, destructive emotions, obscurations and blockages are purified and transformed, I know myself forgiven for all the harm I have ever thought or done, I accomplish this profound practice of conscious death and surrender, and die a good and peaceful death, And through the triumph of my death, I benefit all beings,
in all realms and dimensions throughout time and space and beyond, and through this conscious death and surrender, a new Earth is birthed into a Golden Age of love, joy, beauty, harmony, peace, plenty, illumination and Sacred Union with all that is. I give thanks this is done and this is so and all Heaven and Earth rejoice. Blessed Be!