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UPCOMING SEMINARS

2007 Faculty

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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

 

Care at the End of Life
12.0 contact hours / Facilitator: TBA

Providing care for persons at the end of life requires a variety of special considerations. This seminar, featuring presentations by bioethicist Paul Simmons and hospice chaplain Jim England, explores issues related to hope and healing in hospice, pain and suffering, and aging and human dignity.

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

Dreams, Journals, and Spirituality --
12.0 contact hours / Presenter: Alan Filippi, M.Div., BCC.

Dreams reveal so much to us if we give them a chance. They reveal the forgotten depths of the human being and even give us glimpses of a spiritual world that surrounds one as totally as the physical one.

    We will playfully interact with the dream and one another through the three weeks and hopefully have stimulated you to work with the dream further after this module has ended. They may raise some initial questions at the outset and that is also welcomed.

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

 

Encountering Depression and Anxiety in Ministry
12.0 contact hours / Presenter: Vicki Hollon, D.Min.

    Religious leaders are not immune to depression and anxiety; however, it may be more difficult for religious leaders to admit to themselves or others that they suffer from either. This seminar is not only for the direct benefit of the religious leaders, it is also for those they serve.  It is designed to help ministers recognize symptoms of clinical depression and anxiety in order to more wisely give care to others and make appropriate referrals as needed.

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

Hope and Wholeness --
12.0 contact hours / Facilitator: TBA

    We have learned that hope can contribute significantly to one's sense of wholeness and well-being. This seminar provides the opportunity to participate in an interdisciplinary collaborative learning experience. Using email, members of the seminar group explore the role of hope through reflective dialogue around presentations by Myron Madden, Howard Clinebell, and Kay Shurden 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 $90
(limited to 12 participants)

Receiving the Gifts of Aging
12.0 contact hours / Facilitator: Cindy McNutt-Kaestner

    "Most of the time we dwell on the losses and multitude of sufferings that accompany old age, rather than the new gifts aging can bring," observes Dr. Jane Thibault, Clinical Gerontologist with the University of Louisville School of Medicine. There are numerous aging issues that need to be proactively addressed in the congregational, healthcare, or community setting that are going unconsidered. The gifts and opportunities that come with aging are among these.
When Religion Gets Sick --
12.0 contact hours / Presenter: TBA		 When Relgion Gets Sick book cover

    In When Religion Gets Sick, widely regarded as one of the classics written by Dr. Wayne Oates, "sick religion" is defined as one that "hinders the basic functions of life." In this book he uses a case history method for exploring religious pathology and addressing such questions as:

    • When does religion get sick?
    • What kinds of experiences result from sick religion?
    • How can spiritual caregivers help people who have such experiences?

    Through interdisciplinary, reflective peer group dialogue, participants in this seminar will review several chapters from this book and reflect on the meaning and consequences of "sick religion" in light of their own experience and context.

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

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