Schedule for the Day

7:30

Optional pre-conference workshop: An experience of the spirit of African ceremonial drumming. Jordan Messan Benissan. Instruments and instruction provided (space is limited). Session begins promptly at 7:30.

8:00

Registration begins.

8:30

Welcome and introduction. Dr. Frederic Craigie, Scott Bullock.
Invocation in words. Chaplain Raymond Anderson.
Invocation in sound and spirit.

8:45

Keynote presentation: Spirituality as an essential component of health care: Fostering compassionate systems of care for patients and their families. Dr. Christina Puchalski.

9:30

Conversation with audience. Dr. Christina Puchalski.

10:00

Break and music.

10:15

Session 1 of concurrent workshops:

Interactions among religious belief systems, the interpretation of illness and death, and individual pathology. The Rev. Dr. Robert Bayley

Community expression of spirit: An experience of the African-American Gospel Choir. The Rev. Margaret Lawson

Preparing to be there: Ways for helping professionals to prepare themselves for people’s spiritual and life/death issues. Dr. Roger Phelps

The energy of creativity: The role of the arts in healing and recovery. The Rev. Mary Zachary-Lang.

11:15

Break and music

11:30

Session 2 of concurrent workshops:

Creating healing environments for patients with life threatening disease. Dr. Andrew Hertler, Debbie Bowden, Ted LaCrone

Beliefs, practices and healing in Islam. Dr. Irfan Ali

(Second presentation of Lawson workshop)

(Second presentation of Phelps workshop)

12:30

Lunch and music

1:30

Gospel choir presentation

1:45

Keynote presentation: Listening and Caring: Spirituality and the Care of the Chronically Ill and Dying. Dr. Christina Puchalski

2:30

Conversation with audience. Dr. Christina Puchalski

3:00

Break and music

3:15

Session 3 of concurrent workshops:

Relief of suffering: It’s not just about pain meds. Attending to emotional and spiritual pain in people with chronic disease and terminal illness. Dr. Thomas Keating, Deborah Alpern

(Second presentation of Bayley workshop)

(Second presentation of Zachary-Lang workshop)

(Second presentation of Ali workshop)

4:15

Closing and benediction in words, sound and spirit

4:30

Adjourn