Caregiving
- Evolving Compassion in End of Life Care (workshop)
- Caregivers Need Care, Too (keynote)
- The Power of One in Caregiving Support (workshop)
- Caregiver Self Care (ALS / Alzheimer's Support groups)
- Caregiver Burnout (support group topic)
- Journaling and Documenting for the End-of-Life Vigil (workshop)
- Poetry and Writing as an aid to Caregiver Support
Handwriting Analysis
- Business and Personnel Uses of Handwriting Analysis
- Handwiting for Health (Medical Conditions in Handwriting)
- Hiring Write (Handwriting Uses for Employee Screening)
- White Board and Handwriting Message Discrepancy (Business Handwriting Analysis)
- Is Your Partner Write For You (Handwriting Analysis for Couples)
- Basic Handwriting Analysis (High School Psych Classes)
- Handwriting Analysis for Life Directions (High Schools)
- Presence and Progression of Geriatric Dementia in Handwriting
- Intro to QDE (Questioned Documents Examining)
- Collection Techniques for Handwriting Samples/Archives (workshop)
Spiritual Caregiving
- Twelve Powers of End of Life Care (End of Life Care for Practical Christianity)
- Life's Compass - A Personal and Business Mission Statement
- Symbology of the Torch (Life Skills)
Specific Links Between Training and His
Books
Jerral has worked for several years as a Caregiving Educator specializing in
End-of-Life issues, growing largely out of his book, Urgent
Whispers: Care of the Dying. Workshops, trainings and Continuing Medical
Education (CME) / Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) sessions using URGENT WHISPERS: Care of the Dying as text or support
material often mean he is on the road traveling between training venues.
Jerral's caregiver support work has usually been with Cancer, ALS, Alzheimers and
AIDS Patients, (and their families) or nursing home administrators, clergy
leadership, and public agency employees who deal with direct support issues. The
essence of his workshops and trainings is around helping to dispel the difficult
hurdles of helping out at the bedside, helping to better inform the process so that
anyone can know better What To Do, What To Say, and How To Be at the end-of-life
bedside more effectively. Training materials are available
for browsing and free download by visiting the URGENT WHISPERS publisher web
sites.
A very different topic group, one that spans interest levels from Weddings and
Social Engagements to formal Business Retreats and Training Sites, is Jerral's work
in Handwriting Analysis. It seems that people everywhere have an interest in the
wisps and whispers of personality which emerge from handwriting, and there's no
better presenter than Jerral Sapienza to bring people together and learning, growing
and sharing with Handwriting Analysis studies. Jerral presents workshops, talks and
discussion groups around Handwriting Analysis for Personal and Business uses, and
equally brings mundane business meetings or milling crowds at a wedding reception
together around a common interest in handwriting.
As comfortable in business presentations with Powerpoint presentations on
handwriting, or one-to-one chats about personal traits in a single guest's
handwriting, Jerral often references his new book in the process,
The Hand Behind The Word:
Handwriting Analysis JAQS Style. THE HAND BEHIND THE WORD not only provides
an excellent reference and discussion source for interesting topics in Handwriting,
but also helps people understand the abbreviated sample format
Jerral pioneered called called the JAQS Style, or Just A Quick Sample. It is
currently growing in popularity as a standardized quick sample technique useful to
professional and amateur analysts alike.
Among the audiences for his Handwriting series are Business and Community groups,
Schools, Psychologists and Counselors, Human Resource and Training groups, Dating
and Matchmaking services and of course, the interested public at booksignings, fairs
and libraries. People are always interested in learning more about themselves and
their world. Handwriting Analysis is one of the most popular topics Jerral offers.
The Back Story and Origins
Fascinated with learning in a wide spectrum of fields, Jerral's technical education
& professional career weaves through several very different subject fields, from
Systems Engineering, to Foreign Languages and English Education, to Business
Organization and Project Management.
Not a part of his professional studies and yet always a part of his work vision and
adaptation to relating to others in the workplace environment, Handwriting Analysis
has always figured prominent in Jerral's view of the world. His passion and
intrigue with Handwriting Analysis as a personal research application has never
waned from his very early years. At age seven when he first learned to write
cursive, he was fascinated with the subtextual emotional messages conveyed in
handwriting, noticing only at the time that his second grade teacher's handwriting
varied from day to day, as did her moods.
And so, thanks to those moodswings of a second grade teacher and an alert young
brain fascinated with taking in details of personalities around him, a lifelong
interest in handwriting emerged that year.
Also woven through many years of Jerral's personal backstory while engaged in
pursuit of learning and working in the professional life: His personal passion for
volunteer work for more than twenty years has found him in family caregiving and
hospice work, called to the bedside of many end-of-life vigils for family and
friends serving as primary caregivers.
Born a child in and out of the hospital with grand mal epilepsy, Jerral learned
early what it meant to be sometimes lost in the health care delivery system,
shuttled back and forth between caregivers and clinicians, sometimes with compassion
but more often than not a child treated at some distance by well-meaning but not
always compassionate caregivers. Between epileptic episodes Jerrals was first and
foremost a very active little boy, extraordinarily engaged and interested in all of
life around him, not fitting into the label some seemed to like to give him, as
"broken" or "delicate in nature." Sensitive and aware, yes. But definitely not
broken. Direct descendent to those memories of feeling labeled and marginalized
comes Jerral hospice and caregiver training reminders these days to "realize this is
a whole and loving being whose body is ill."
These days Jerral dedicates his full-time dedication to writing, public speaking and
developing and presenting workshops for business and personal growth areas he had
been doing part-time over the years. He also took the time to enhance his
spiritual commitment to caring and reaching out by becoming a Chaplain.
