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. Human Values and Health Care
   
4. Spiritual Assessment: It's a SNAP
5. The Power to Bless *

May 10-28, 2010

1. Activating Spiritual Resources in a Time of Cancer
2. Healing Power of Forgiveness
3. Holding the Boundaries: Professional Ethics in Practice
4. How Theological Worldviews Shape Your Ministry
5. Ministry with the Digital Generation*

July 12-30, 2010

1. Anxiety in Christian Experience
2. Fiction as a Pathway to the Spirit: Susan Howatch (NEW)
3. Leading into the Future as it Emerges: Generative Listening and Theory U (NEW)
4. Ministry in the Face of Grief and Loss (NEW)
5. Nurturing Silence and Sabbath*
6. Preaching and Pastoral Care*

August 9-20, 2010

1. Faculty Workshop: Conversations to Build Community (NEW)

September 6-24, 2010

1. Art Tools in the Ministry Tool Box (NEW)
2. Hot-Topic Discussion: Immigration Reform (NEW) - 2 weeks
3. Integrating Spirituality and Health - 6 weeks
4. Pastoral Care for Workaholics (NEW)
5. PlayBIG: Nurturing Creativity and the Soul (NEW)
6. Spirituality and Unemployment (NEW)

October 4-22, 2010

1. Coping with the Emotional and Spiritual Effects of Trauma (NEW)
2. Educating Families on Death and Dying (NEW)
3. Exploring Celtic Spirituality
4. Fiction as a Pathway to the Spirit: Vampire Literature (NEW)
5. Health Ministries: Developing Congregational Health Ministries
6. In Search of the Holy Grail: A  Soul Drama (NEW)
7. The Search to Belong (NEW)
8. When Religion Gets Sick (Oates Book Study)

November 1-19, 2010

1. Facebook for Pastors (NEW)
2. Helping Children Grieve (NEW)
3. Ministry to an Aging Society
4. Writing for Professional Publication