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Lifelong
Learning @ Oates.Org
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February
26,
2007
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An
eNewsletter published by the WAYNE E. OATES INSTITUTE
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In this edition:
Register
for March Online Seminars by February 28:
There are still
a few seats available for the March online seminars offered
March 5-23. These seminars are approved for continuing
education with the National Board of Certified Counselors
(NBCC) and for Continuing Chaplaincy Education (CCE) with
the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC).
Baseball,
Ghosts, and Fields of Dreams:
A Journey Toward Wholeness
Presenter:
Jim Mahanes / 12.0 contact hours (CCEs,
NBCC, WEOI)
Carl
Jung coined the term synchronicity to refer to
a “meaningful coincidence”. Such can
be said of the recent film, Field of
Dreams, which was adapted from the
book, Shoeless Joe, by J.D. Kinsella.
Neither the writer nor the screen producer intended
it, but the film provides a powerful dramatization
of Jung’s theory of the mid-life transition
and the process of “individuation,” often
understood as the process of coming into “wholeness.”
The
mid-life journey is the integration of our outer
driven “ego” with the center of our
existence, the “self” or soul. Through
this seminar, participants will explore this mid-life
journey as they clarify such fundamental Jungian
categories as self, anima, shadow, collective unconscious
and the process of individuation.
For
more information about this seminar, click
here. 
Nurturing
Silence and Sabbath
Facilitator: Martha
Rogers, M.Div. / 12.0
contact hours (CCEs, NBCC, WEOI)
In
the
process
of
giving
care
to
others,
care
givers
often
overlook
their
own
practice
of
self-care.
Through
peer
group
interaction
around
three
presentations,
this
seminar
will
provide
participants
with
an
opportunity
to
reflect
on
their
own
patterns
of
rest
and
personal
renewal,
while
learning
to
observe
the
sacrament
of
the
present
moment
and
affirm
the
gift
and
necessity
of
rest.
For
more information about this seminar, click
here.
Substance
Abuse and the Family:
Defining the Role of the Faith Community
Facilitator:
TBA / 12.0 contact hours (CCEs, NBCC, WEOI)
Recognizing
that clergy and other congregational leaders are often
sought out by those experiencing problems with alcohol
and drug dependence, an expert panel was convened by
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
and the American Association of Pastoral Counselors
to address substance abuse issues. This panel recommended
the development of a set of core competencies to address
basic knowledge and skills that ministers need in order
to help addicted individuals and their family members.
For
more information about this seminar, click
here.
Unus
Mundus: An Archetypal Journey
Facilitator: Alan
Filippi, M.Div., BCC /
12.0 contact hours (CCEs, NBCC, WEOI)
Dreams,
journey, and dream work all seem to be fairly
innocent terms but what do they have to do with
life? Plenty! We live in a day when many in health
care are willing to talk about holistic medicine
and value the integration of the mind, body,
and spirit. Dreams, journey, dream work, and
archetypes speak volumes to this holistic perspective.
In Jungian terms it is the perspective of unus
mundus or one world. This seminar
is about one world and the archetypes that inhabit
that world and speak to us often. It is about
the journey that we find ourselves taking as
a result of interaction with these archetypes.
Subscriber
Bonus --
"The
Care of the Circumferential or Back-biting Person"
from The Care of Troublesome People by Wayne Oates
Over
the next few months learn how to approach troubled
and troublesome people in ways that are not dismissive,
but instead are caring, affirming, and grounded in
God's grace. In the
second chapter of his book, The
Care of Troublesome People, Dr. Wayne Oates
wrote:
Psychoanalyst Karen Homey (Our
Inner Conflicts, 1965) has described the basic
source of personal unhappiness in people as the "fundamentally
contradictory attitudes [they have] acquired toward
other persons" (p. 40-41).
She describes these contradictory
attitudes as "movements" in relation to
people: (1) moving toward people; (2) moving against
people; and (3) moving away from people. These types
of interpersonal movements are critical to the discussion
of troublesome people in this book.
I have chosen to add another category
of movement: (4) moving around people. People who chronically
do this I'd call circumferential personalities or backbiters.
To read the full text
of this chapter, go to the Center
for Oates Studies at the Oates
Institute Online or click on the link below.
We invite Lifelong Learning
@ Oates.Org subscribers to view this video by clicking
on the link below. If
you are not a member of the Oates Institute,we
invite you to read the full text of this article by subscribing
to Lifelong Learning @ Oates.Org.
Click
here to read Chapter 2 of
The Care of Troublesome People by Wayne Oates
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