Feasibility and acceptance
The mindfulness and compassion course, was successfully conducted in a specialized multi-professional inpatient palliative care team. The data show that the use of mindfulness practices such as mindfulness pauses can improve one’s perception of oneself or one’s surroundings. The participants indicate that they recognized the usefulness of the course in their daily work. It is notable that there are no negative comments in the free text answers, except for one personal feedback that refers to the teaching. Here, it can only be assumed, whether gratitude for such an offer that predominates and therefore there is no negative criticism because it was not perceived as such. However, it is also possible that only those who perceived it as valuable and positive took the opportunity to report this via the free text field. Persons who found it negative may not have taken the time to indicate this in writing as well.The acceptance of the course by participants is also due to its implementation during working hours [