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.

January 11-29, 2010

1. Care of Self: Nurturing Silence and Sabbath
2. Care of Troublesome People
3. Emotional Intelligence and Conflict – 6 weeks
4. Fiction as a Pathway to the Spirit
5. Hope as a Dynamic for Healing
6. Preaching and Pastoral Care
7. Spirituality and Aging

February 8-26, 2010

1. Art and Centering Prayer
2. Care of Self: The Caregiver's Mental Health
3. Exploring Celtic Spirituality
4. Hope and Wholeness

April 11-30, 2010

1. Care of Self: Encountering Depression and Anxiety in Ministry
2. Finding Hope When There Is No Cure
3. Healing Power of Forgiveness
4. Human Values and Health Care
   
5. Spiritual Assessment: It's a SNAP
6. The Power to Bless *
7. When Religion Gets Sick

May 10-28, 2010

1. Fiction as a Pathway to the Spirit: Susan Howatch
2. Ministry and Mental Illness
3. Ministry with Bereaved Parents
   
4. Pastoral Counseling in the Local Congregation
5. Social Networking and Pastoral Care *

July 12-30, 2010

1. Art and Healing
   
2. Care of Self: Care Giver's Mental Health
3. Care of Self: Nurturing Silence and Sabbath*
4. Confessions of a Workaholic (Oates Book Study)
5. Holding the Boundaries: Professional Ethics in Practice

September 6-24, 2010

1. Dancing in the Dark: Alzheimers' in 3/4 Time
2. Healing Power of Story Listening (6 wks.)
3. Health Ministries: Developing Congregational Health Ministries
   
4. Holding the Boundaries: Professional Ethics in Practice *
5. Hope in Conflict *
6. Integrating Spirituality and Health (6wks.)

October 11-29, 2010

1. Exploring Celtic Spirituality
2. Fiction as a Pathway to the Spirit
3. Ministry in the Face of Grief and Loss *
4. Ministry to People with Developmental Disabilities
5. Worship and Ritual in the Hospital Setting