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UPCOMING SEMINARS

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“I appreciated everyone’s insight and honest comments. I thought many of the heartfelt conversations revealed a real need for open dialogue. I wonder how much of that would have occurred in a face-to-face meeting.”

—Rev. Bruce Frogge, pastor

 

 

July 2008
Connected Learning Seminars

July 7-25, 2008
(Register by July 3, 2007)

Art and Healing
12.0 contact hours / Facilitator: Cherry Moore, M.Div., MFA

    What role does art play in spirituality and health?

    To explore this topic of growing interest, seminar participants will be reflecting on two exhibits in the Online Learning Center art gallery: "Faith Squinting, Love Reaching, Hope Walking" by artist C.J. Phipps and "Spirituality, Art, and Health" by art historian Lynn Meckler. A third resource will be the art in an Oates Journal article, "Art and Healing: A Personal Reflection" by artist Cherry Moore.

    WEOI members free / non-member $60
    (limited to 12 participants)

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Care of Self: The Care Giver's Mental Health
12.0 contact hours / Facilitator: TBA

    To explore this topic of growing interest, seminar participants will be reflecting on two exhibits in the Online Learning Center art gallery: "Faith Squinting, Love Reaching, Hope Walking" by artist C.J. Phipps and "Spirituality, Art, and Health" by art historian Lynn Meckler. A third resource will be the art in an Oates Journal article, "Art and Healing: A Personal Reflection" by artist Cherry Moore.

    WEOI members free / non-member $60
    (limited to 12 participants)

 

Engaging One's Story: Transitions in Adult Life
12.0 contact hours / Facilitators: Jim Mahanes and Chris Hammon

    Using the metaphors found in film, Jungian archetypes, and stories, this seminar encourages participants to explore their personal stories as a platform for examining transitions in adult life. The seminar is a continuation of the Baseball, Ghosts, and Field of Dreams seminar, however, participation in that seminar is not required.

    Seminar participants will utilize email discussion to reflect on three popular films as examples of transition stories, share their stories, and engage in dialogue about counseling others in the midst of adult life transitions.

WEOI members free / non-member $60
(limited to 12 participants)

Ministry with Bereaved Parents
12.0 contact hours / Facilitator: Sue Wintz, M.Div., BCC.

"Despite the numbers of parents grieving the traumatic death of their child," writes Dr. Ron Oliver, "their grief is so misunderstood by the non-bereaved that grieving parents frequently suffer again from the 'care' of their well-intended family and friends. Caring for a bereaved parent requires a paradigm shift away from the way culture defines the needs of bereaved parents and the appropriate response to those needs." The participants in this seminar will examine the needs and grief experienced by bereaved parents and learn approaches that might be used in ministering to them by using email dialogue to reflect on presented material in light of their own experience and context. Through this process the group benefits by learning from one another as well as from the presentations.

WEOI members free / non-member $60
(limited to 12 participants)

Nurturing Silence and Sabbath
12.0 contact hours / Facilitator: Alan Williams, D.Min., BCC

    In the process of giving care to others, care givers often overlook their own practice of self-care. Through peer dialogue around three presentations, this seminar provides participants an opportunity to reflect on their own care regarding rest and personal renewal while learning to observe the sacrament of the present moment and affirm the gift and necessity of rest.

    WEOI members free / non-member $60
    (limited to 12 participants)

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Unus Mundus: An Archetypal Journey
12.0 contact hours / Facilitator: Alan Filippi, M.Div., BCC

Dreams, journey, dream work all seem to be fairly innocent terms but what do they have to do with life? Plenty! We live in a day when the talk in health care is holistic medicine, that is, when the conversations and values speak of the integration of mind, body, and spirit. Dreams, journey, dream work, and archetypes speak volumes to this holistic perspective. In Jungian terms it is unus mundus or one world.

This seminar is about one world and the archetypes that inhabit that world and speak to us often. It is about the journey that we find ourselves taking as a result of interaction with these archetypes. This unus mundus is described as:

  • That deepest part of the unconscious where heaven and earth meet and are unified. It is the final reunion of spirit, soul, and body with the world soul.
  • The final stop or end of our journey.
  • Where the answers come from within or unus mundus.

    WEOI members free / non-member $60
    (limited to 12 participants)
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