The Work of Hospicing

In this time of endings, we are encouraged to “move beyond fear and embrace the deep transitions ahead with wisdom.” As stewards, we will “develop the practices and capacities to tend to these endings, not with urgency or control, but with a kind of stillness that invites the birth of new ways of being,” and “reimagine how we relate to endings, not as catastrophic failures or moments to be avoided, but as natural processes that hold within them the seeds of renewal.” The pose this requires may feel unusual to us, certainly those in corporate roles, because “what we need is more like disinvestment than disruption”. We need to disinvest from these certainties and invest in our capacities for complexity,” and to be wise takes a “commitment to the viability of the matter while retaining a sense of the mystery and movement of the whole existing beyond us.”