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NACC Webinar: Diary Writing & Discernment (Angela meets Ignatius)

June 6, 2023 by In Fo

NACC Webinar 2023 Series

Diary Writing & Discernment (Angela meets Ignatius)
Presented by Angela R. Hooks

July 20, 2023 | 12:00 noon CT (1pm ET, 11am MT, 10am PT, 8am HI)

Overview and Objectives
With the growing need to tend to the grief, loss, and joys of others, we can diminish or neglect our own soul care, which affects our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Join us to learn how to sharpen our awareness about great expectations of what God wants to give us right now through diary writing.

As a result of this webinar, participants will:

  1. Discuss Discernment through Diary Writing
  2. Apply the teaching of Angela’s Diary Scribblers with Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises to their chaplaincy ministry.
  3. Examine their chaplaincy minister in light of the diary writing

NACC Certification Competencies Addressed in this Webinar
PIC1, PIC3.1.2.3, ITP3

Presenter Information
Angela R. Hooks is a 2023 graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, where she earned her MDiv. She also completed spiritual direction training at Oasis Spiritual Ministries. Angela is an ordained Baptist minister who loves talking, writing, preaching, teaching about Christ, and the ways of practicing spiritual formation that deepen one’s intimacy with God. Angela earned her doctoral degree in 2018 from St. John’s University in English literature and an MFA in Creative Writing from Manhattanville College. Angela has charted her own path as an interdisciplinarian, blending faith, theology, literature, and creative writing into her work.

As an author, she published an interactive journal, MAKE IT HAPPEN, with Peter Pauper Press, and essays and articles about teaching writing and diary writing. Dr. Hooks has taught writing and literature at Dutchess Community College, Culinary Institute of America, Ramapo College, and St. John University since 2006. As well as facilitated diary writing in churches, women’s retreats, community centers, and libraries.

Angela is the wife of Rev. Johnny Ray Simon, the pastor of Second Baptist Church in Poughkeepsie, where she serves as an associate minister, ordained deacon, and teaches Sunday School. She is also the mother of four adult children.

She lives and works in Manchester, Connecticut, where she has started her own spiritual direction practice, Heartbeat Formation.

Tagged With: diary, grief, Ignatius, writing

Listening and Responding to Concepts of God in the Context of Trauma and Grief

June 6, 2023 by In Fo

NACC Webinar 2023 Series

Listening and Responding to Concepts of God in the Context of Trauma and Grief
Presented by Anastasia Wendlinder, PhD
June 15, 2023, 12pm – 1:30pm CT

Overview and Objectives
It is natural for patients to question the nature of God in the context of trauma and grief: “Why would God let this happen to me?” “Where is God when I am suffering?” “What kind of a God would allow these tragedies? Responding to these questions effectively not only requires understanding where the patient is coming from religiously and spiritually, but also on you as the Chaplain or caretaker. How does your religious formation, spirituality and personal experience inform your responses to someone’s whose background may be very different than your own? How might your response add to or alleviate the pain of the patient and their family members?

This webinar will address how the Christian doctrine of God is often used and misused in the context of pastoral care, and will suggest strategies for listening and responding to yourself and others for more effective professional engagement.

As a result of this webinar, participants will:

  1. Review their theological formation with regard to the doctrine of God
  2. Reflect on how their theological education, spirituality and personal experience inform their actions towards patients.
  3. Practice skills of deep listening to discern the concept of God as others communicate it in the context of trauma and grief
  4. Be introduced to effective responses that respect the other’s religious and spiritual understanding.

NACC Certification Competencies Addressed in this Webinar
ITP1, ITP1.1, PIC1, PIC2, PPS8

Presenter Information
Dr. Wendlinder directs the Graduate Program and is a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University. She received her PhD in Systematic Theology from the University of Notre Dame and her MA from the Graduate Theological Union. Her areas of expertise include the Second Vatican Council, Doctrine and Sacramental Theology, Ecumenism, Medieval Theology, and Theologies of Liberation. She teaches in and has published a book and a number of articles dealing with the above topics. She is currently the President of the Assoc. Jesuit Colleges and Universities Consortium on Pastoral, Theological and Ministerial Education, Past President of the Association of Graduate Programs in Ministry and Current President of the newly formed Eckhart Society, USA.

Tagged With: grief, nature of God, Trauma

NACC 2023 Webinar Series
Honoring and Supporting Grief and Loss in the Lives of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and their Families

January 27, 2023 by In Fo

Honoring and Supporting Grief and Loss in the Lives of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and their Families

Presented by Bill Gaventa

March 16, 2023~ 12pm – 1:30pm Central Time

Overview
For a long time, grief and loss in the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism, was essentially ignored and disenfranchised, often because of assumptions about levels of understanding or because the focus was on the grief of families. Yet they live in a world of relationships in which grief and loss are often ubiquitous. This webinar will address some of that history as well as rapidly growing resources for supporting grief and loss, including new initiatives focused on people with autism, their friends and families, caregivers, and professional helpers.

During the webinar we will look at particular ways that chaplains may encounter and address grief and loss in hospital settings with patients with disabilities and support their supporters, i.e., family members, clergy, direct care staff and friends. The webinar will include time for questions and stories from participants’ pastoral experiences. Participants are encouraged to explore a new resource web site, www.autismandgrief.org beforehand.

NACC Certification Competencies Addressed in this Webinar
PIC4, PIC5, PPS2, PPS3, PPS5, PPS6

Presenter Information
Bill Gaventa is an author, speaker, trainer, and consultant primarily in the arena of faith and disability. He is the founder and Director Emeritus of the Summer Institute of Theology and Disability and the current Director of the National Collaborative on Faith and Disability. He was the Director of Community and Congregational Supports at the Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities in New Jersey from 1995-2013. Primary areas of experience and expertise include spiritual and faith-based supports with people with disabilities, training for clergy, seminarians and community services staff, aging and end of life/grief issues in intellectual and developmental disabilities, cultural competence, and community building. He served as the President of American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2016-2017. He was Editor of the Journal of Religion, Disability and Health for 14 years, and is author of Spirituality and Disability: Recovering Wholeness published by Baylor University Press in 2018.

Click here to register for 2023 webinars.

Tagged With: developmental disability, family, grief, intellectual disability, loss, support

A Creative Way to Address Grief (CPMC Webinar)

November 23, 2022 by In Fo

Sr. Annie Killian, OP, will discuss her approach to prison ministry as a way of peace-making. She offers returning citizens and people who are incarcerated a ministry of accompaniment and art, and she offers a space for them to address grief. She will also discuss her course “Life After Loss”.

Click here to register!

Tagged With: CPMC, grief, prison ministry

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