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May 21-24, 2011 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Pathways to Healing: People and Communities is the theme of the NACC 2011 National Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This theme will enable us to seek plenary speakers and workshop leaders to develop our theme through the lens of theologian Bernard Lonergan’s transcendental imperatives.

Call for Workshop Applications

We welcome workshop applications for the 2011 Conference. Click here to learn more.

Pathways to Healing: People and Communities – Theme Information

By nature, we are questioning, inquiring people. Our ministry of healing places us with people whose life circumstances press them to question themselves, their relationships, their care, and their faith.

Canadian, Thomistic philosopher Bernard Lonergan, S.J. proposed years ago that, as humans, our fundamental drive to question happens in a basic, universally-true (thus transcendental) way or “pathway”. As a theological framework for our workshops, our speakers, our conversations, and our entire conference, we hope to gain insight through:

• Being Attentive (affirming through our senses)
• Being Intelligent (exploring and inquiring)
• Being Reasonable (reflecting on what we learn to weigh its truth, falsity, and value)
• Being Responsible (applying what we now know)

These are levels of consciousness that help us be more fully aware of ourselves and how we learn and grow with the ultimate aim to deepen our love and commitment (Being in Love).

To this end, our conference objectives include:

Pathways
As Chaplains and CPE Supervisors we are in a unique position to companion people and communities on the pathways to healing and wholeness. Our conference will explore these pathways of noticing, inquiring, judging, and deciding/recommitting for love.

People
By nature, we are whole people – body, mind, and spirit. Our ministry of healing involves a holistic understanding and treatment of the people we are and we serve. Our conference will be attentive to the holistic approaches of our healing ministry.

Communities
As a community, we are social people – interdependent. Our ministry of healing requires a social consciousness and responsiveness. Our conference will be attentive to the communal and organizational contexts within which our ministry happens.

2011 Task Force

The Planning Task Force for the 2011 Conference is complete. We put thought and prayer into developing our theme. Many thanks to Task Force members:

• Linda Piotrowski (Conference Chair)
• Mr. Michael Doyle (Liturgy)
• Ms. Barb Malueg (Preconference/Conference Workshops)
• Ms. Karen Nehls (Local Arrangements)
• Ms. Kathy Ponce (Plenary Speakers)
• Sr. Norma Gutierrez, MCDP (NACC Board Representative)
• David Lichter, Susanne Chawszczewski, and Jeanine Annunziato from the National Office.

We appreciate your prayers and your ideas as we move toward finalizing speakers and workshop leaders. Please contact Linda Piotrowski, Conference Chair, with your ideas at Linda.F.Piotrowski@hitchcock.org.

Past conferences (2004-2010)

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