As a Humanist Chaplain, Darrin Parkin's focus is on palliative and end of life care of patients and their loved ones. Darrin walks with people through anticipatory grief, grief & bereavement during terminal illness, as well as after the death for a patients loved ones. Darrin worked for Hospice Calgary and Rosedale Hospice alongside end stage cancer patients providing grief support for the families. He is a conference speaker on topics like Spirituality in the modern age (compared to the hunter gatherer age), palliative care, and grief and bereavement. Darrin was a prison chaplain for many years previously and college instructor in law enforcement focusing on restorative justice. In that capacity he took a team of prison guards to Uganda to do humanitarian work building a clinic together with a local community in East Uganda.
As a Humanist Chaplain, Darrin Parkin's focus is on palliative and end of life care of patients and their loved ones. Darrin walks with people through anticipatory grief, grief & bereavement during terminal illness, as well as after the death for a patients loved ones. Darrin worked for Hospice Calgary and Rosedale Hospice alongside end stage cancer patients providing grief support for the families. He is a conference speaker on topics like Spirituality in the modern age (compared to the hunter gatherer age), palliative care, and grief and bereavement. Darrin was a prison chaplain for many years previously and college instructor in law enforcement focusing on restorative justice. In that capacity he took a team of prison guards to Uganda to do humanitarian work building a clinic together with a local community in East Uganda.