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Hilton Milwaukee City Center
509 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53203
For online reservations, click here
For phone reservations or inquiries, call the Milwaukee Hilton City Center at (800) 445-8667 or (414) 271-7250.
Room rates are $129 (plus taxes) for single/double.
Please specify that you are a member of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains Conference in order to secure the room rate.
The guest room block will be held until Monday, April 23, 2012 or until rooms are sold out.
Transportation from the airport to the hotel is available through GO RITEWAY Airport Connection. Make your shuttle reservation online to receive a discounted rate.
2012 NACC National Conference Airport Transportation Portal.
(Service provided by GO RITEWAY)
Overnight/Daily Parking is available in the parking structure connected to the hotel. For rates, please visit the Hilton website:
www.hiltonmilwaukee.com/explore-milwaukee/hotel-parking.asp
There are many other options for parking in the area surrounding the hotel, please visit ParkMilwaukee.com to discover the many options.
ParkMilwaukee.com, your complete parking resource for Downtown Milwaukee
VISIT Milwaukee, the Official Convention and Visitors Bureau Site for Milwaukee provides visitors with a plethora of information about the great city of Milwaukee. An invaluable resource for all planning a trip to the Great City on a Great Lake!
Whether you are looking for something fun to do or a great place to eat – VISIT Milwaukee provides it all.
Click here to go to the VISIT Milwaukee website.
For 2012 we are again facilitating a Roommate Referral Service. Please follow the instructions below. Once you are placed on the list you will be emailed an update each time there are additions. A link in the email will take you to a web page with a database of potential roommates.
It will be up to you to contact persons on the list to discuss the suitability of rooming together.
The last date that names will be accepted is Sunday, May 8, 2011.
When you click the link below you will be taken to a web form asking for the following details:
Your name
Your gender
Smoking preference, if any
Contact information: phone, email, or both
Any pertinent details: sleeping/rising habits (early or late), snoring, watching TV late, etc.
Any details pertaining to days you need a roommate and/or length of stay
CLICK HERE to sign up for Roommate Referral.
Don't forget to contact Phil at pparadowski@nacc.org to let him know if you have found a roommate so you can be removed from the list.
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2012 Conference brochure (PDF)
2012 Conference Registration form (PDF)
2012 Day of Reflection (Retreat) Registration form (PDF)
We are pleased to announce the theme and facilitators for the 2012 national conference Day of Reflection (formerly called our “retreat”) which will take place on
Friday, May 18, 2012 prior to the conference. This year’s theme is “Saved by Beauty – Living from the Inside Out”. Our facilitators are Anne and Tom Butler from Bon Secours Health System in Maryland. Anne is an Internal Consultant for Chronic Care/ Palliative Care and Tom is the Director of Mission Services.
Please click here for more information.
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The 2012 National Conference Planning Task Force is pleased to announce an added benefit of a “Conference Weaver” at this year’s conference. Our Conference Weaver is Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, a monk of the Camaldolese Congregation, musician, composer, writer, and teacher. Fr. Cyprian will help us to move through our journey with the plenary speakers, provide times of meditation, reflection and contemplation each day, and draw our theme across the four days we are together here in Milwaukee. Additionally, we are pleased that Fr. Cyprian will be giving a concert during his time with us.
Fr. Cyprian lived for ten years and did his monastic formation at New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, where he served as liturgist, choir director and teacher. Much of both his music and his teaching revolve around the Universal Call to Contemplation through spirituality and the arts. He has five collections of original music recorded and published through OCP Publications, three others released through the Equilibrium label with his long time collaborator, percussionist John Pennington, and two other collections self-published out of Singapore.
He has also collaborated on several collections of a capella sacred music for the church year with the Collegeville Composers Group. Cyprian earned his MA in Theology from St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, CA. A student of the writings of Bede Griffiths and Abhishiktananda, Cyprian has a great love for comparative religion, has done work in inter-faith ritual and world music, regularly leads conferences on meditation, and has been to India and other countries in Asia several times, both studying and teaching. He has written numerous articles and a book, Prayer in the Cave of the Heart: The Universal Call to Contemplation, for Liturgical Press.
Cyprian currently lives near Santa Cruz, California; he spends about half his time at home and half his time on the road performing and teaching. For more information, please visit Cyprian’s website is: www.cyprianconsiglio.com.
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The 2012 National Conference Planning Task Force is pleased to announce our speakers for the 2012 National Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 19-22, 2012. The task force has worked very hard to bring national speakers to our conversation about our theme: Reconciling Journey: A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance. Dates and times will be forthcoming!
C. Vanessa White, D.Min.
Assistant Professor of Spirituality
Director of the Augustus Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program
Catholic Theological Union
Jean deBlois, CSJ, Ph.D.
Professor of Systematic Theology
Director of the Master of Arts in Health Care Mission Program
Aquinas Institute of Theology
Most Rev. Blase J. Cupich, S.T.D.
Bishop of Spokane, Washington
John Dear, SJ, M.Div.
Priest, pastor, peacemaker, organizer, retreat leader, author/editor
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A limited number of scholarships will be available from the National Association of Catholic Chaplains for registration fees for the 2012 NACC National Conference. The applicant must apply in writing no later than Friday, February 3, 2012.
The amount of any single scholarship shall not exceed the total cost of the Early Bird registration. The scholarship will be provided in the form of payment of registration fees directly to the 2012 NACC National Conference.
Click here to print a 2012 Scholarship Form.
Forms must be received by Friday, February 3, 2012 and sent to:
David A. Lichter, D.Min.
Executive Director
National Association of Catholic Chaplains
4915 S. Howell Avenue, Suite 501
Milwaukee, WI 53207-5939
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Sunday afternoon, May 20, 2012 we have set aside time and space for several relaxed learning opportunities. Among those is the opportunity for you to present a poster about your work. Your poster will be a visual presentation of your spiritual care department or CPE program, a special project you’ve developed or a description of works in progress (including research). Beyond pre-conference workshops and 75-minute conference workshops, poster displays offer your colleagues additional ways to learn about creative and innovative programs and research in spiritual care. (deadline to submit: February 17, 2012)
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Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 19, 2012
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Friday and 7:00 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. on Saturday
(Pre-approved application required)
Disaster Spiritual Care members will continue to be deployed following aviation, transportation disasters, mass casualties, terrorism events, and by government request. Recent hurricane and flooding disasters have birthed an emerging model of BCC chaplains as partners with social work and nursing, making up an Integrated Care Team both locally and nationally. This new element of training will be introduced.
This intensive ARC DSC training is offered free of charge, although all accepted participants are responsible for their own travel and maintenance. Given the limited class size and necessity for a formal application process there is no guarantee that every request to attend will be able to be honored.
To attend this training session, please complete the SRT Application Packet (PDF) available from Tim.Serban@Providence.org and send back by March 31, 2012. Admittance to this training is by letter from the American Red Cross Disaster Spiritual Care Leadership Team.
Our theme, Reconciling Journey: A Time to Mourn and A Time to Dance, is an invitation to be, as St. Paul says, ambassadors of reconciliation. This transformative journey, beckons us to acknowledge sin, mourn loss, seek healing, and celebrate hope in Christ. It is a movement of individual and communal integration within the context of our personal lives, our profession, our church, and our world.
This reconciling journey is an invitation to mourn and to dance; to move through experiences of lament to find joy. Our journey moves us through the process of identifying and reflecting on the brokenness, ritualizing and validating our lament, and celebrating what we have integrated both personally and communally, as we have become one in Christ or as we have experienced a fresh recognition of our oneness in God.
To this end, our conference critical questions include:
The National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC) is preparing for our annual conference to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 19-22, 2012. The theme is Reconciling Journey: A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance. We invite vendors/exhibitors to participate in our conference by displaying your products and/or services via a tabletop exhibit. Conference attendees look for the resources and services that contribute to the work they do as chaplains as well as their own self-care. We anticipate 400-450 attendees that will include chaplains, mission directors and other health care executives.
The exhibitors for the 2012 conference will be located across from the ballroom where all major sessions will be held. This area will host coffee breaks and other high traffic activity. This conference supports the continuing professional development of our members. Know that your exhibit will enhance that development. For more information, please download our Exhibit Specifications and Application form.
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