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Lifelong
Learning @ Oates.Org
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JANUARY
2,
2008
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An
eNewsletter published by the WAYNE E. OATES INSTITUTE
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In
this edition:
It
Is Not Too Late to Register for January Seminars
Register by Friday for one of the Oates Institute's
January online seminars. There are still a few seats
available in each of the following January seminars:
Care
of Self: Nurturing Silence and Sabbath
Facilitator:
Cindy McNutt-Kaestner, M.Div.,
BCC / 12.0
contact hours
In
the process of giving care to others,
care givers often overlook their own
practice of self-care. Through peer
dialogue around three presentations,
this seminar provides participants
an opportunity to reflect on their
own care regarding rest and personal
renewal while learning to observe the
sacrament of the present moment and
affirm the gift and necessity of rest.
MORE
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION 
Dancing
in the Dark: Alzheimer's in 3/4 Time
Presenter:
Patricia Pickett, D.Min. /
12.0 contact hours
As
one providing spiritual care to those
caught in the world of Alzheimer's
disease, how do you go where the
person is and meet their needs while
allowing them to be who they are
in the moment? This three week seminar
presented by Dr. Patricia Pickett will
engage participants in working through
the arts and spirituality, which
are the last things to go when someone
begins to slip through knowing.
MORE
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
Encountering
Depression and Anxiety in Ministry
Presenter:
Vicki Hollon,
D.Min.
and Anne
Windus,
Ph.D. /
12.0 contact
hours
Religious
leaders are not immune to depression
and anxiety; however, it may
be more difficult for religious
leaders to admit to themselves
or others that they suffer
from either. This seminar
is not only for the direct
benefit of the religious leaders,
it is also for those they serve. It
is designed to help ministers
recognize symptoms of clinical
depression and anxiety in order
to more wisely give care to
others and make appropriate
referrals as needed.
Finding
God in the Multiplex: Developing
a Lenten Film Series --
Presenter:
Daniel Kroger, D.Min.
/ 12.0
contact hours
All of us
have probably had the experience
of going to a movie at the local
multiplex drawn by the review in
the local paper which mentioned
something of interest. We
go and are suddenly struck by either
the whole movie or perhaps just
a scene. During
this three week seminar participants
will be watching three films, which
may either be rented or purchased,
and discussing them along with
presentations on developing a Faith
in Film festival through an email
discussion group.
Substance
Abuse and the Family:
Defining the Role of the Faith Community
Facilitator:
John Bell /
12.0 contact hours
Recognizing
that clergy and other pastoral ministers have an
array of opportunities to address problems of alcohol
and drug dependence based on their positions, an
expert panel on seminary education was convened by
SAMHSA and the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
The panel recommended the development of a set of
core competencies to address the basic knowledge
and skills clergy need to help addicted individuals
and their family members.
MORE
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
Program
of Self Care for Army Reserve Chaplains
Like all soldiers who experience combat,
army chaplains experience physical, psychological, and
spiritual trauma. As individuals whose role is
to help others, it can be especially difficult for chaplains
to find the help and the “safe” space they
need to care for themselves. Self Care for
Army Chaplains is a unique program designed to help
army chaplains care for themselves.
This program, offered by the Wayne E. Oates Institute,
will first be made available to 12 army reserve chaplains
beginning January 7, 2008. As participants, this
group of 12 chaplains will remain together online for approximately
three months and in addition, they will have a two-day
retreat where they can come together in-person for peer
support, discussion and relaxation.
Subscriber
Bonus:
"The Presence of God, the Presence of the Counselor, and the Face of a
Parish"
from The Presence of God in Pastoral Counseling by
Wayne E. Oates
"We
contemporary pastoral counselors can break through
to the transcendent and transpersonal dimensions
of our relationship to our counselees by becoming
less pedestrian and trivial in our awareness of who it
is of whom we remind our counselees,"
wrote Wayne Oates in this final chapter of The
Presence of God in Pastoral Counseling. To read
the full text of this chapter encouraging the "shift
of transference and counter-transference to the transcendental
power of the Presence of Christ as the Third Presence
in the counseling relationship," click on the
link below.If you
are not a member of the Oates Institute, you are invited
to subscribe to Lifelong Learning
@ Oates.Org to receive
access to the full text of this chapter.
Click
here to read Chapter 8
of the Presence
of God in Pastoral Counseling by
Wayne Oates 
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