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Table 4 Meaning shift from T0 to T2

From: Experiential training course on spirituality for multidisciplinary palliative care teams in a hospital setting: a feasibility study

Sub-themes T0

Themes T0

Themes T1

Sub-themes T1

Themes T2

Sub-themes T2

What is Spirituality?

 S. is the cultivation of personal values

 S. is something intimate / personal / private

 S. as self-knowledge

Personal concept of spirituality

Listening to oneself

Spiritual dimension was confirmed

Recognition of a personal background

Personal component of s

The starting point

Reconnection with one’s own spirituality

Spaces for oneself to cultivate s

s. confirmed

spiritual practices

 The substance of S

 The spiritual experience is in life itself

 S. as a dynamic dimension

S. as Life

Listening to others

Spirituality is listening to oneself and to others

Others

Seeing others as they are

 Five Senses are S

 Connection with nature

Nature

S. as meaning

S. is sense, meaning

S. is pervasive

Pervasive concept

S. as a search for meaning

transcendent

Getting spiritual experience at work

 S. is the connection with others, feeling oneself in the relationship with others

Experiencing s. as a connection and exchanging with each other

Experiencing s. as greater attention to the s. of the patient

Being able to identify the patient’s spiritual needs

Spiritual care tools

 

 Tolerance, not judgment, closeness to others

Openness without judgment, including in the role of carer

Listening to oneself helps listening to suffering and death

Paying more attention to the s. of patients thanks to their awareness of their own s

Consistency between professional values and approach to s

Professional area as a space to cultivate spirituality

S. in the profession

Connection

 Healing as a tool to nourish one’s own spirituality

 S. is felt at work

 Taking care of yourself at work / taking care of your spirituality at work

The workplace is the place to cultivate s

Team connection to the s. of others (colleagues, patients)

Connection to each other (friends / colleagues / patients)

Closer contact with colleagues during the course

Team listening to the patient’s spirituality

Circularity of s. (colleagues, patients, close people)

Desire to investigate spiritual dimension even in people close to you

S. it must be shared / discussed with colleagues

Spirituality and the need for nourishment

 Spiritual practices

 Training your spirituality

Taking care of your spirituality

More attention to oneself. Active need for nourishment

New forms of nourishment for that person

Feeling the need to nourish their own spirituality

  

Well-being perceived when approaching the spiritual dimension

Renewed attention to one’s personal spirituality

Having acquired greater awareness of the spiritual dimension

Spiritual practices

Need to find one’s own way of working on oneself

 

fatigue/sense of fatigue of operators

Struggle to find time and space to cultivate spirituality

 

Theoretical purpose to nourish, not applied

 

Self-reflection on one’s own spirituality

 

Understanding the use of your spirituality

Acquisition of greater confidence with one’s s

Idea of s. confirmed

Widening and greater confidence with respect to the vision of s

gratitude

Expansion

  

Questioning of one’s spirituality

 

Keeping spiritual awareness high

Familiarity with the topic

Spiritual awareness

    

Difficult to apply in workplace

fatigue/sense of fatigue of operators

  1. S. Spirituality