“I appreciated everyone’s insight and honest comments. I thought many of the heartfelt conversations revealed a real need for open dialogue. I wonder how much of that would have occurred in a face-to-face meeting.”

—Rev. Bruce Frogge, pastor

This is a six week online seminar led by the Rev. Canon Marlin Whitmer that will take the stories you hear as a basis for reflecting on metaphors and metaphorical patterns. Also through the metaphors and metaphorical patterns, connections will be identified between Biblical stories and one's own stories. This learning experience will relate these fundamentals of language and Word to pastoral care and health care. Both are grounded on listening, language, and metaphor as health care moves out into the community with chronic illness overshadowing acute care.

This seminar provides the opportunity to participate in an interdisciplinary collaborative learning experience. Using email, members of the seminar group explore the issues of common language by reflecting on presented material in light of their own experience and context. Through this process the group benefits by learning from one another as well as from the presentations.

1. Demonstrate the importance of everyday stories in providing spiritual care, pastoral care, and health care.

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2. Identify metaphors and metonyms in stories, both the written and spoken.

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3. Identify metaphorical patterns in the stories of others, our own, and Biblical stories.

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4. Journal or journey with stories to connect with transcendent and significant meanings.

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