Naomi Tzril Saks | Education & Consultation

FOR ORGANIZATIONS

I collaborate with teams, organizations, and communities to meet life’s most profound realities.

I help people and groups draw on their own strengths and resources to move through disruption and change while remaining steady, whole, and connected.

I offer education, consultation, facilitation, group programs, and speaking for organizations, teams, and communities.

I tailor each engagement to your needs, goals, and context, from a single conversation to an ongoing program.

I work with organizations, teams, and communities across healthcare, professional, nonprofit, educational, and community settings.

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Schedule

How I Work With Organizations

Education

Lectures, didactic sessions, courses, trainings, continuing education, and customized programs for organizations, teams, and communities, including healthcare professionals and caregivers.

Topics include serious illness, dying and death, grief, spiritual care, spirituality, communication, ethics, interprofessional collaboration, and wellbeing and sustainability.

Participants deepen their understanding of these experiences and develop practical ways to bring that understanding into their work and lives.

Consultation

I work with organizations, teams, and leaders to develop, strengthen, and carry out programs and approaches that respond to the needs of their people and communities. I bring relevant expertise, an outside perspective, and practical experience to help shape the work, prepare the people who will carry it forward, and address challenges that arise along the way.

Organizations gain a well-considered approach, people who are prepared to carry it forward, and support as the work takes shape.

Facilitation & Group Programs

I design and facilitate customized workshops, retreats, and group programs for teams, organizations, and communities.

Examples include Group TRE, Wellbeing & Sustainability, grief support circles, facilitated dialogue, team workshops, and retreats for reflection, connection, learning, or renewal.

I help groups draw on their own strengths and resources to meet difficult realities while remaining steady, connected, and able to move forward together.

Speaking

I speak to conferences, organizations, professional groups, teams, and communities about serious illness, spiritual care and realization, grief, caregiving, professional wellbeing, interprofessional collaboration, and death and dying.

Engagements include keynotes, invited talks, lectures, public conversations, and podcasts.

I help audiences make sense of difficult human experiences, ask deeper questions, and find ways to meet them in their work and lives.

How I Work With Organizations

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Education

Participants deepen their understanding of these experiences and develop practical ways to bring that understanding into their work and lives.

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Consultation

Organizations gain a well-considered approach, people who are prepared to carry it forward, and support as the work takes shape.

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Facilitation & Group Programs

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Speaking

Why Work With Me

More than 20 years as a clinical healthcare chaplain, educator, and Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine at UCSF, working directly with people across spiritual, religious, and existential backgrounds through serious illness, grief, dying, and other profound life transitions.

Leaders bring me in for both subject-matter expertise and the ability to help people engage challenging experiences and situations with depth, clarity, and care. I bring a track record spanning hospitals, universities, nonprofits, and communities and the follow-through to see a project from first conversation to last session.

Examples of My Work

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Speaking & Teaching

Beyond Silos: Generative Role Blurring and Outcome-Driven Collaboration in Palliative Care

Naomi joins colleagues from chaplaincy and social work to explore how intentionally working across professional roles can strengthen collaboration and improve outcomes in palliative care.

Chaplaincy Across Fields: Nurturing Resilience and Compassion

Naomi discusses her chaplaincy work, defines what chaplaincy means to her, and explores fostering resilience and compassion in healthcare (Harvard Divinity School Alumni Webinar.

Early Stage Palliative Care: Assumptions & Interventions

Naomi presents on why integrating spiritual screening into routine palliative care is essential for addressing patient needs (Chaplaincy Innovation Lab)

Easing the Challenges of Living With Dementia: How Palliative Care Hospice Can Improve Quality of Life

Naomi joins a interprofessional panel on dementia care discussing how palliative care and hospice can improve quality of life for individuals with dementia (Stanford & UCSF partnership with Kensington Senior Living).

Podcasts

The Nature of Suffering

Naomi and BJ Miller discuss the nature of suffering, spiritual screening in healthcare, and how chaplains address existential distress (UCSF GeriPal Podcast)

Wellbeing & Sustainability

Naomi discusses wellbeing for healthcare workers and mindfulness practices for resilience (UCSF GeriPal

Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care

Naomi and co-editors discuss their book, "Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care"and why collaboration is essential in healthcare (UCSF GeriPal Podcast).