Hearts and Minds: Balancing Empathy, Support, and Donation Advocacy

This specialized course will provide Donation Advocates with essential strategies to navigate the delicate balance between emotional support and professional responsibility.

Gain actionable insights into managing emotional complexity, improving donation authorization rates, and supporting families through their most challenging moments.

Learn about the connection between grief and empathy and what it means in the context of donation advocacy to create an empathy equilibrium that supports effective donation advocacy while also providing the essential support for families.
Personal

Reflections

Expanded

Learning Guide

In-depth

Webinar

Guided

Journaling

Reinforced

Knowledge Checks

Essential Course Elements

Course contents

Meet the invited speaker

Bianca Esquivel

Family Services Coordinator, TOSA
Bianca Esquivel has served in bereavement and end-of-life care for 15 years. This includes hospital chaplaincy, church support, restorative justice and direct service work for people who are incarcerated, group facilitation and pilgrimage leading. She has been part of Texas Organ Sharing Alliance for 9 years. Among many roles outside of her donation work, she is a certified thanatologist with a Master’s degree in Thanatology. Bianca was also recently selected as a Global Fellow in End of Life Care for The Completed Life Initiative.