The Wayne E. Oates Institute is a Connected Learning Community exploring spirituality and health as a way to advance integrative care for the whole person. The Oates Institute is a non-profit educational organization made up of caregivers from the medical, spiritual and counseling communities providing a forum for joining together as an interdisciplinary dialogue toward understanding the relationship between spirituality and the healing process.

Registration is now open for the October online seminars. These seminars will begin on Monday, October 5 and continue through Friday, October 23. Six seminars will be offered, with four of those being three-week seminars that provide 12 contact hours of continuing education credit and two being six-week seminars that provide 24 contact hours of continuing education credit.

• Baseball, Ghosts, and Field of Dreams: The Journey Toward Wholeness
• Care at the End of Life
• Fighting the Tiger: The Psychological and Spiritual Effects of Emotional Trauma
• Preaching and Pastoral Care
• Spirituality of the Ghost Story
• Working (and Ministering) with Net Gens 101

The Oates Institute is an approved provider of continuing professional education by the National Board of Certified Counselors and these continuing education credits may be used to satisfy credentialing requirements for chaplains, counselors, social workers, and health care ministers.

Registration for each of the seminars is limited to 12 participants.