“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

Hope and Wholeness

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May 5-23, 2008
Facilitators: TBA
12.0 contact hours

We have learned that hope can contribute significantly to one's sense of wholeness and well-being. Myron Madden writes:

Hope lifts the human frame to tiptoe in expectation. It sets the imagination ablaze with anticipation. It stretches the mind to conjure up manifold possibilities. It crowds out the negative feelings of dread, fear and anxiety. Hope chooses light over darkness, order over confusion, health over sickness, peace over conflict.

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.

Presentations (one per week):

• "Hope and Human Wholeness"
  by Myron Madden, Ph.D.

• "Reality-based Hope" by Howard Clinebell, Ph.D.

• "The Dynamic of Hope in Families"
  by Kay Shurden, Ph.D.