Plenary Sessions
Featuring Dr. Gregory Ellison
Topic: Working Your Working Paper: Care-Full Reflections on Vocation, Value, Voice, and Vision
In a handful of paragraphs and three unpublished sermons, Howard Thurman details the characteristics of the working paper—a living document that is guided by an audacious goal, governs daily practice, and is rooted in a deep commitment to God. This highly interactive three-part workshop will engage head and heart, welcome fearless dialogue, and challenge caregiving leaders to critically analyze vocation, value, voice, and visions for the unfolding future.
- Session 1: Vocation and Value(s), Beyond the Mule’s Path: Howard Thurman’s Working Paper Introduced
- Session 2: Voice, Not for Rent: Freedom Papers for the Trained Mind
- Session 3: Vision, The Fellowship of Shade Trees: Love, Proximity and the Courage to be Free
Workshop Speakers and Topics
- Rosalind Stanley, Healing of the Soul For African Americans
- Carol McGinnis, Virtual World Psychospiritual Interventions: Counseling Xbox "First Person Shooter" Videogamers
- Ryan Noel Fraser, “The Cloud of Witnesses”: An Imaginal Audience for Personal Narratives of Travail and Triumph
- Jaye Peabody & CaTrice Glenn, The Joys & Struggles of the Spiritually Integrated Bi-vocational Practitioners
- Paula Swinde, Understanding the Basics of Religious Abuse
- Shama Panjwani, Meditation & Mindfulness Practices in Counseling
- David Thornton, Spiritual Abuse and Healing - Clinical Insights and Ethical Response
- Karen and Travis Webster, Moving Together Towards Greater Health for Seminarians and Clergy
- Jack Evert, Spiritual Care and Art: How Metaphors Bring Them Together.
- Pauline Doty, Experiential Workshop: Telling a “Better Story” -- Presence in the Midst of Suffering
- Ronald McDonald, Passing the Torch: What Do the Old Need from the Young? and the Young Need from the Old?
Draft Schedule
(all times in Eastern Time Zone)
Friday, October 20, 2023
- SPECIAL EVENT: SIP Music Therapy Training: 9:00am-5:00pm
- Conference Kick Off with Lunch: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Workshop Series I: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
- Workshop Series II: 3:15pm - 4:45pm
- Opening Reception: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
- Plenary Session 1: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday, October 21, 2023
- Workshop Series III: 9:00am - 10:30am
- Plenary Session 2: 10:45am - 12:00pm
- Lunch 12:15pm - 1:30pm
- Workshop Series IV: 1:45pm - 3:15pm
- Plenary Session 3: 3:30pm - 5:30pm
- Toast & Jam: 7:30pm -
Sunday, October 22, 2023
- Breakfast & Workshop 8:30am - 10:30am