Rabbi Samuel E. Karff
John E. Fellers' Symposium

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 12:00 Noon

Rio Grande Room
The Methodist Hospital
6565 Fannin
Houston, Texas 77030

Rabbi Samuel Karff, D.H.L., is presently Associate Director of the John McGovern Center for Health, Humanities and the Human Spirit and Visiting Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, Texas. He has lectured extensively in this country and abroad.

Lunch will be provided at no charge

Registration is required as space is limited
Register at www.spiritualityandhealth.org or call
Jerri Doctor at 713-797-0600

George Washington University, Washington, DC
Interprofessional spiritual care-the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients' spiritual needs in the context of their physical and emotional needs-is the focus of the 3rd annual Spirituality and Health Care Summer Institute sponsored by the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish). Developed for healthcare professionals of all disciplines, chaplains, educators, administrators, and others who work with patients and their families, the Institute focuses on practice development as well as implementation of the interprofessional spiritual care model in both inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.

For more information, click here: GWISH Homepage

"The Science of Religion and Health: Time to be Born Again?"
will be presented by our associate director Linda K. George, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University, Durham, NC.

The lecture will be held Saturday, March 5 from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Duke University Hospital North, Room 2001, 2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC.

For more information or to register, email dukespiritualityandhealth@gmail.com
or call 919.660.7556, visit http://spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu.

WHAT: Advanced Listening Skills: Life Commandments,
Story Listening, & the Language of the Nervous System

WHEN: Saturday, March 12, 2011
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
WHERE: Lifeline Chaplaincy Conference Center
1415 Southmore Blvd. (Museum District)
Houston, Texas 77004
SPEAKER: Paul Riddle, Director of Spiritual Care
Lifeline Chaplaincy Houston

TO REGISTER

Call Marlaina - Lifeline Chaplaincy at 713-524-1055
Registrations are requested by March 9th
No registration fee.
Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Donations for food and drink will be accepted.

Date: September 18, 2010
Time: 9 a.m.--3:00 p.m.
Venue: India House
8888 West Belfort
Houston, Texas 77031

For registration, visit our website at: www.africacancercareinc.org
Email: info@africacancercareinc.org
Ph#: 713-995-8000

• Required for Lifeline Chaplaincy spiritual care volunteers
• Recommended for ministers, elders, visitation ministry leaders and others involved in providing spiritual care

Topics include:

•Defining a healing community
•Losses and their effect(s) on us
•Basic listening and communication skills
•Perception and its role in listening
•"Why me?"
•Grief and Grieving
•Caring for the Caregiver
•Role play in ministry and listening

This workshop will be held . . .
Friday, May 14, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Light supper provided
Saturday, May 15, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Continental breakfast and lunch provided
Sunday, May 16, 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Host: Lifeline Chaplaincy
1415 Southmore Blvd, Houston, TX

To register: Call Lifeline Chaplaincy at 713-524-1055
Or via E-mail at lifeline@lifelinechaplaincy.org

Registration fee: $50.00 payable at the door
Registration deadline May 10th.

Spiritual Renewal for Pastoral Caregivers

Saturday, April 10, 2010
9 am - 12 noon

Host: Lifeline Chaplaincy
1415 Southmore Blvd. (in the Museum District)
Houston, Texas

To register: Call Lifeline Chaplaincy at 713-524-1055
Or reply to this email with your name and phone.

No registration fee.

Continental breakfast will be served

The club's 2009 donation efforts were awarded to Laura Worth, M.D., Ph.D., medical director in Pediatric Stem Cell Therapy and the principal investigator on the Stem Cell Transplant Exercise Protocol. The $10,000 donation will help fund the purchase of child-friendly exercise equipment for patients in the study (such as dance mats, Nintendo Wii video game systems and stationary bicycles that integrate with video games) that can remain in patients' rooms during their isolation and raise their spirits while promoting physical activity. In this way, exercise-disguised as play time-will enrich the lives of sick children who cannot go outside or see friends.
For more info visit the website: http://ridersforthecure.org/

Anne Reigeluth, a chaplain-in-training at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, was walking the oncology floor last week when a cancer patient began moaning in pain. Ms. Reigeluth stepped into her room, held her hand and tried to calm her.

She asked the woman if she had a favorite place. A lake, she answered. What time of year did she like to be there? Summer. Soon, the woman was quieter, imagining herself at the lake and recalling better times.

"I wanted to take her mind off her pain and agitation," Ms. Reigeluth said outside the room. "I said: 'I'll stay with you until the nurse comes. And I'll come back.' "

This is what hospital officials call Zen care, which is nondenominational and more about stress reduction, breathing exercises and "being present" with patients and their families than about quoting Scripture or administering last rites.

Read the complete article here