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this edition:
Oates
Institute Annual Gathering Next Week, Reservations Required
Dr. Brooks Faulkner, the 2007
Oates Award recipient, will speak on "Renewing
Compassion Boundaries" at the Oates Institute
Annual Gathering and Oates Award Dinner on Thursday,
October 4. The new Wayne Oates Institute video will
also be premiered during the festivities.
This year's gathering and dinner will
be held at KYE's II at the Water Tower Square just across
the river from downtown Louisville in Jeffersonville,
Indiana. The gathering starts at 6 pm EDT with the dinner
and program at 6:30 pm EDT.
To attend, reservations must be made
by this Friday, September 28.
For
more information and to make reservations, click
here
The
Registration Deadline is Approaching for October
Online Seminars
There is only one week
left to register for the October 8-26 online seminars.
This will be the last session for the 2007 online seminars.
Registration is available through Wednesday, October
3. The seminars offered in October include:
- Care at the End of Life
- Dreams, Journals, and Spirituality
- Encountering Depression and Anxiety
in Ministry
- Fighting the Tiger: The Psychological
and Spiritual Effects of Emotional Trauma
- Hope and Wholeness
- Receiving the Gifts of Aging
- Substance Abuse and the Family
- When Religion Gets Sick
All of these seminars offer 12 contact hours of approved
continuing education credit for counselors (NBCC), chaplains
(12 CCEs), social workers, and congregational leaders.
For more information on the seminars and
to register, click
here
Responses from our Learning
Community:
"I stay involved
in the Wayne Oates Institute because of
my commitment to the kind of quality education
that it stands for. I have found that ministers,
pastors, chaplains, counselors who don't
continue with their education soon are
out of date. They're not up to date with
the latest problems, they're not ready
to meet people coming into their lives
for care and counseling. The Oates Institute
answers both of those."
-- Dr.
Wade Rowatt, Pastoral Counselor
"The
Oates Institute has helped me to become
a better minister by broadening my horizons,
making me read things I wouldn’t
ordinarily read, exposing me to community
in a different way…"
-- E.
A. Cole, Congregational Nurse
Healing
Power of Forgiveness Online Conference in November
The Healing Power of Forgiveness is
the theme of our Fall Online Conference to be held November
5-16 in the WEOI Online Learning Center.
The Oates Institute will host this conference
in the Institute’s Online Learning Center and it
will be accessible on the Web from any computer in the
world with internet access. The conference will
include several forms of interaction. While there
will be some online discussions scheduled in real time,
the conference is primarily designed to fit into participants’ normal
schedules and allow them to access the presentations
and interact with new colleagues from their home or office
computer.
This conference will allow participants
to identify the mental, physical, and spiritual health
benefits of forgiveness and to recognize the need for
forgiveness as it is encountered daily in both dramatic
and everyday events.
At a time when researchers are actively
exploring the physical and psychological effects of forgiveness,
this online conference will enable participants to better
understand the dynamic of forgiveness as a means for
alleviating suffering.
For
more information and to register, click
here
Sign
Up Now for the January 2008 PCS Group
Pastors, deacons, and other
congregational leaders are often the first persons that
individuals and families turn to when they suffer trauma
or experience a crisis. The Pauline Oates Pastoral Care
Specialist Certificate offered by the Oates Institute
in affiliation with the American Association of Pastoral
Counselors provides training to enhance one's ministry
during those occasions that call for brief and supportive
pastoral care and counseling. Applications are now being
accepted to be part of the peer group starting the certificate
in January 2008.
For
more information about the Pastoral Care Specialist Certificate, click
here.
Subscriber
Bonus in the Center for Oates Studies:
"The Presence of God in Listening, Silence, and
Community"
from The Presence of God in Pastoral Counseling by
Wayne E. Oates
"The
reality of silence is no mere "gimmick" for
manipulating people. For it to be meaningful," wrote
Wayne Oates, "a listening silence must transcend
the dreary fate of being a 'technique' of pastoral
counseling. It becomes a spiritual discipline of
patience, prayer, and long-suffering in 'waiting
before God.' Yearning for the Presence of God can
turn the pastoral counseling relationship from
a dialogue into a trialogue."
We are currently republishing
this out-of-print work in the Center for Oates Studies
as part of the Wayne E. Oates Library Collection.
To read the full text of this chapter, "The Presence
of God in Listening, Silence, and Community," click
on the link below. If
you are not a member of the Oates Institute, you are
invited to subscribe
to Lifelong Learning @ Oates.Org to receive access
to the full text of this chapter (and the chapters
to follow).
Click
here to read Chapter 5
of the Presence
of God in Pastoral Counseling by
Wayne Oates
