Professional Pastoral Care Seminar Archive
To see the depth and breadth of course offerings in the Oates Institute catalogue, browse the past offerings of pastoral care seminars offered by our industry thought leaders and spiritual course facilitators carrying on the tradition of Dr. Wayne Oates.
January Seminars
- Setting and Accomplishing Goals
February Symposium
- Compassion Fatigue Symposium
March Seminars
- Research 101
- Through Dangerous Terrain: A Guide for Trauma-Informed Pastoral Leadership in Times of Threat – a book study led by the author, Jennifer Baldwin, PhD.
May Seminars
- When Religion Gets Sick
- Heart to Heart: Spiritual Care Through Deep Listening
June Seminars
- The Legacy and Continued Contributions of Wayne E. Oates as It Applies to Spiritual Care
July Seminars
- When Religion Gets Sick
- Best Practices for Medical Staff Support
August Seminars
- The Use of Self in Pastoral Care
- Nurturing Silence in a Noisy Heart: Caring for Self While Caring for Others Without Losing Your Minds
September Seminars
- Integrated Family Therapy Symposium
December Seminars
- Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent”
January Seminars
- Spiritual Care for Grieving Children
- “Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resiliency, and Finding Joy”, Cheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant – A book study
March Seminars
- Burnout: How to Hold Out the Light Without Burning Out
- Balancing Personal Faith and the Faith of Others
April Seminars
- Compassion Fatigue, Burnout and Secondary Trauma
May Seminars
- Trauma-Informed Care: A Primer
- Spirituality in Palliative Care
June Seminars
- Symposium – Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care
July Seminars
- Book discussion, “The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church‘s Complicity in Race, Jemar Tisby, author
- Research 101
- Building Resilience to Trauma and Adverse Events
August Seminars
- Creativity in Spiritual Care
September Seminars
- The Emotional Freedom Technique for Life
- Counseling Theories and Techniques for Chaplains
October Seminars
- The Use of Humor in Counseling and Therapy
November Seminars
- Caring: Six Steps for Effective Pastoral Conversations, a book study by the author, Dr. Denise Massey
December Seminars
- An Advent Reflection Group Using “Low: An Honest Avent Devotional” by John Pavlovitz
- Hanukkah: What Every Spiritual Care Professional Needs to Know
January
- Creating a Caring Presence
- Holding the Boundaries: Ethics in Practice
- Spiritual Care Research 101
- Integrative Mind/Body Medicine: Implications for Spiritual Caregivers
February
- When Religion Gets Sick
- Strategic Chaplaincy: Ways to Get a Seat at the Leadership Table
March
- Grief and the Healing Arts
- Healthy and Unhealthy Religion
May
- Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others (Book Study)
June
- Issues in Spirituality and Palliative Care
- Spiritual Care Research: 101
July
- Spiritual Care to Diverse Populations
- Spiritual Care of LGBTQ persons
August
- Spiritual Care of Diverse Populations
- Spiritual Care: Best Practices in Long Term Care
September
- Feelings in Spiritual Care
December
- Your Brain on Gratitude: How a neuroscientist used his research to heal from grief.
- Nudging Empathy: Harnessing Motivation to Create Sustainable Empathic Choices.
January
- Aging and Spirituality
- Helping Children Grieve
- Interfaith Cooperation and Respect: Care to All in an Age of Religious Pluralism
February
- End of Life Issues: Ethical and Spiritual
- Hope as a Dynamic of Healing
- Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice (Book Study)
March
- Spiritual Care of the Addicted Person
April
- The Power to Bless
- Integrating Spirituality and Health Care
May
Symposium - Opioid Crisis: Integrative Medicine and Spiritual Care Implications
The symposium will include six experts presenting live through Adobe Connect with opportunity to interact. *Symposium lessons available as ala carte lesson recordings in our resources section.
June
- Helping Children Grieve, Facilitated by Lisa Wood
- Two-hour self-study modules are available in the Vicki Hollon Resource library under symposium topics. These are recordings of live presentations and Q & A by multi-disciplinary thought experts on specific spiritual care topics.
July
- Spiritual Care of LGBTQ persons, Facilitated by Bert Montgomery, author of Elvis, Willie, Jesus & Me, Psychic Pancakes & Communion Pancakes, Of Mice & Ministers, all three books and a new book, A Preacher and Rabbi Go to a Gay Parade contain musings about LGBTQ issues. He is also pastor of the University Baptist Church in Starkville, MS, which is a welcoming and affirming congregation
- A Serious Call to a Contemplative Life-Style, Glenn Hinson, a book study, Facilitated by Lee Whitlock
- Spiritual Care Research 101
- Spirituality and Mental Illness
- Congregational Care / Caring Presence Network/ Lay Spiritual Caregiver Skills Training - Module 1
September
- Thoughts from the Bedside: From Medicine to Chaplaincy and Beyond, a book study, Facilitated by the author, Bill Holmes, M.D., M.Div.
- Spiritual Care of the Traumatic Brain Injured Person
- Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice, a book study, Facilitated by Trish Matthews
October
- Spirituality and the “Nones”, A current poll indicates that 34 % of Americans identify themselves as Agnostic, Atheist, or “nothing in particular” hence the need to understand how these groups of folks think about spirituality
- Spiritual Care Research 201
- Issues in Spirituality and Palliative Care
- Multi-discipline Cooperation in Caring for the
Whole Person
November
- Creating a Caring Presence
January
- Book Study: The Great Spiritual Migration: How the Worlds Largest Religion is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian, by Brian McLaren, the discussion will include a recorded live interview with Dr. McLaren. Facilitated by Lee Whitlock
- A Goal-Setting Seminar. Facilitated by Rick Underwood
February
- Book Study: Dropping the Struggle: Seven Ways to Love the Life Have, by Roger Housden. Facilitated by Trish Matthews
- The Power to Bless. Facilitated by Dale Buffington
- Resilience in Spiritual Care Giving Part I, facilitated by Marcia Marino
- Moral Injury, based on Rita Brock’s book, Soul Repair, and other resources.
March
- Spiritual Care of the Alcoholic and Drug Addicted. Facilitated by Lee Whitlock
- Grieving: Helping People Invite God into Their Pain
- Integrative Mind-Body Medicine, Peter Buecker, M.D.
- Strategic Chaplaincy: Ways to Get a Seat at the Leadership Table. Facilitated by Rick Underwood
April
- Healing: Broadening Spiritual Work Care to Include Intentional Healing. Facilitated by Heather Fraser Fawcett
- Compassion Fatigue. Facilitated by Lisa Wood
May
- Research 101 in Spiritual Care
- Gifts of Imperfection
- Resilience in Spiritual Care Giving Part II, facilitated by Marcia Marino
June
- Breaking the Silence: Spirituality and Palliative Care. Facilitated by Dina Carroll
- Research 201 in Spiritual Care. Facilitated by guest professional researchers
- Up from the Ashes: A Father and Son’s Journey through Addiction and Recovery.
- Facilitated by authors, Jay & Rick Underwood
July
- Summer Break
August
- Holding the Boundaries: Professional Ethics
- Struggle to be Free
- Preaching and Pastoral Care
- Spirituality and Fiction: The Spirituality of the Ghost Story
- Tapping into Prayer: The Use of Emotional Freedom Technique to Center. Facilitated by Karen Lovett (postponed)
September
- On-line Live Adobe Connect Conference, Spirituality and Aging – Faculty to be announced
October
- Care of the Troublesome Person
November
- Spiritual Care of the Psychiatric Patient, Facilitated by Dale McAbee
- Advent Study
- How Surrogate Decision-Makers Access or Fail to Access Spiritual and Religious
- Resources when Making Life-Sustaining Decisions, Facilitator, Stephen Ivy, tentative
January
- Go, Stop: Go! A Powerful New Approach for Overcoming Quitters and Accomplishing Your Goals
- Hope as a Dynamic for Healing – Bianca Rauch
February
- Book Study, The Angry Christian, Andy Lester – Lisa Wood
- Strategic Chaplaincy: Ways to Get a Seat at the Leadership Table - Rick Underwood, D.Min., M.S.
- Spirituality and Mental Disability - Conroy Reynolds, Ph.D., BCC
- Special Event: Christianity and Islam – Presentation and Q and A with Gray Henry - February 18th, 7 – 8:30 PM
March
- How Surrogate Decision-Makers Access or Fail to Access Spiritual and Religious Resources when Making Life-Sustaining Decisions – Stephen Ivy, Ph.D.
- Seminar on A Sense of the Heart: Christian Religious Experience in the United States by Dr. Bill Leonard, Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies and Church History at School of Divinity, Wake Forest University. Dr. Leonard will introduce his new book to open the seminar and join us again for a Q&A at the end.
- The Power to Bless – Vern Farnum
- Spiritual Care Research 101 – David Eisenminger
- Nurturing Silence & Sabbath – Trish Matthews
April
- Online International Symposium: Mindfulness and Spirituality
- Father Richard Rohr
- Father Joe Mitchell
- Peter Bueker, MD
- Eric McCollum, Ph.D., LCSW, LMF, Professor & Program Director, MFT Program, Virginia Tech, Author of a new book, Mindfulness and the Therapists
- Tenzin Kiyosaki, Hospice Chaplain, in Home Health, South Bay Area of Los Angeles, MA, Certified Chaplain, former practicing Buddhist nun for 27 years, ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, currently a lay practitioner, former Buddhist chaplain at the US Air Force Academy
May
- Online movie screening of States of Grace: A Journey of Loss, Resilience, and Renewal
- Special Event-May 24, 7-8pm: Mindfulness and Compassion , by Venerable Thubten Chodron
June
- Moral Injury- based on Dr Rita Brock;s book, Soul Repair – Rick Underwood
- Spiritual Care of Alcoholic – Lee Whitlock
July
- Gifts of Imperfection
August
- New Seeds for Contemplation
- Fiction, Spirituality, and Holistic Care at the End of Life
- Pastoral Care for Bereaved Parents
- Up From the Ashes: A Father and Son’s Journey through Addiction and Recovery
- Holding the Boundaries
September
- Grieving: Helping People Invite God into their Pain
- Care of Self: A Caregivers Guide to Mental Health
- Resilience in Spiritual Caregivers
- Research 101 in Spiritual Care
October
- Breaking the Silence: Spirituality and Palliative Care
- Struggle to be Free- An Oates Book Study
- Book Study on The Great Spiritual Migration by Brian D McLaren
November
- Spiritual Care of the Psychiatric Patient – The Rev. Dr. R. Dale McAbee, facilitator
- Care of Troublesome People
- Brian McLaren presentation and Q&A on new book-Nov. 17
- Advent Book Study
December
- Learning Center Closed – No Seminars
May
- When Religion Gets Sick
- Finding a Common Language
June
- Moral Injury in Returning Soldiers
- New Seeds for Contemplation
- Spiritual Care for the Alcoholic
July
- Exploring the Power of Story in Spiritual Care
- Fiction, Spirituality, and Holistic Care at the End of Life
- The Gift of Imperfection
- Thriving in the Whirlwind
August
- [Summer break]
September
- Grieving: Helping People Invite God into Their Pain
- Holding the Boundaries: Professional Ethics in Practice
October
- Seminar & Presentation on Falling Upward by Father Richard Rohr
- Breaking the Silence: Spirituality & Palliative Care
- Care of Self: Caregivers Guide to Mental Health
- Caring for Troublesome People
- Spirituality of Ghost Stories
- Spiritual Care of the Psychiatric Patient
- Reflections from the International Conference on Pastoral Care and Pastoral Counseling
November
- Book study with Anne Sims--a one week intensive study of a book yet to be determined
December
- [winter break] Registration opens for January 2016