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Special Summer Discount on Membership |
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 During the month of June, the Oates Institute is offering the opportunity to become a member or to renew a membership in the Institute at a 20% discount making membership for 12 months only $96 (membership is regularly $120 per year). Members receive the opportunity to participate fully in the learning community including free registration for any of the online seminars and self-study learning modules, full access to the Oates Journal, access to the Center for Oates Studies, access to the online editions of Wayne Oates' books, and the opportunity to network with other members.
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Allan Josephson Named 2009 Oates Award Recipient |
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 Dr. Allan Josephson has been named the 2009 recipient of the Oates Award. Allan Josephson serves in Louisville, Kentucky as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bingham Child Guidance Center, Professor and Associate Chair for Child and Adolescent Programs, and Division Director of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry at University of Louisville School of Medicine.
Dr. Josephson is a prolific writer in his professional discipline and has taught and spoken to many national organizations, schools, community agencies, churches, and media on subjects related to child, adolescent and family mental health, religion, and spirituality.
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Two Care of Self Seminars Offered in July |
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 In the process of giving care to others, care givers often overlook their own practice of self-care. Care givers--including pastors, chaplains, and counselors -- often feel that they do not have the time or permission to take time to rest and meet their own needs for sustaining their health. Unfortunately, when care givers do not tend to their own well-being, those they care for also pay a price.
To help care givers with their self care, the Oates Institute will offer two Care of Self seminars during the July session. One is the very popular Nurturing Silence and Sabbath seminar. The other is the Care Giver's Mental Health. Both seminars will be offered online July 13-31.
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Conversation with Dr. Georgine Buckwalter Rescheduled for July 9 |
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 The Conversation with Dr. Georgine Buckwalter on Growing Spiritually through Life's Aging Transitions has been rescheduled for Thursday, July 9, 7:30-9 pm EDT. Dr. Buckwalter, Director of Pastoral Care at the Episcopal Church Home in Louisville, Kentucky and Chaplain of St. Luke’s Chapel, challenges the American idea that “successful aging” is when one can live proudly and independently without the help of anyone else. She suggests instead that, “successful aging can happen when one is flat on their back on oxygen – or when one is graciously receiving care as well as giving it.” She adds, “holy surrender to circumstances or holy cooperation with circumstances is never spiritual failure!”
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At some point in each of our lives we need that person who can help us break the silence and share our pain; that person who helps us open the curtain so that even a ray of light can shine into our world and renew our sense of hope. Clergy, religious professionals, deacons, and other congregational leaders are often the first to be called when individuals and families suffer trauma or experience a crisis. It is not only the religious professional that needs care giving skills, but also the lay person, the deacon, the elder and other congregational leaders. The Pastoral Care Specialist Certificate offered by the Wayne E. Oates Institute provides training in brief and supportive pastoral care and counseling that will strengthen participants' pastoral care skills.
All the matriarchs in my family that lived beyond 70 have spent their final years with probable Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia. As my mother moves closer to the age when her own mother began her decline with Alzheimer’s our conversations about our prospective futures that include the potential for living with dementia become increasingly frequent, although not necessarily infused with despair. Instead, we try to focus on the new selves that emerge with dementia and embrace strategies in which we can humanize a disease that many claim as a “social death” for sufferers. We explore how we were changed by our relationships with our loved ones with dementia and honor the relationships that were revised as a result of dementia. To have these difficult conversations, we are required to view dementia with humanity and confront our own fears and cultural obsessions. 
The Five Love Languages described by Gary Chapman have dazzled talk show hosts, mesmerized married couples, refocused parents, and even redefined how many counselors approach family conflict. The theory goes something like this. We all like to be affirmed, supported, and loved. We primarily get this from our close relationships; but we like different things. We each have a preferred way (language) to be loved. A person gets frustrated, upset, and hurt when this love does not come in the ways expected. Each person expresses love in the mode that they would like to receive love. You recall the five. They are words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. You can go to the numerous web sites for more on each of these five.
It used to be that the professional training we received during the schooling period of our lives when we acquired the initial degrees that credentialed us to do what we do was considered adequate preparation for a lifetime of work with just a bit of annual continuing education to bring us up to date. This approach of banking learning for future use worked once upon a time, sort of. But those days are gone.
May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble,*
