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I have experience speaking at retreats, courses, workshops, worship services, and community gatherings, including weddings and funerals. My audiences include healthcare staff, those who grieve, ministry students, spiritual leaders, and spiritual communities.

My topics of expertise include…

  • Spiritual companionship

  • Holy listening

  • Creating sacred spaces

  • The basics of pastoral/spiritual care

  • Spiritual care of the dying

  • The dying process (physical and spiritual)

  • Planning for end of life, including funeral/memorial planning

  • How to companion those who grieve

  • Experiencing grief of all kinds and what helps (disenfranchised grief, ambiguous grief, non-death loss, etc.)

  • Grief and resilience

  • Grief and the continuing bond

  • Grief and the holidays

  • Grief and rituals of remembrance

  • Why ritual matters

  • Self-care for caregivers and healthcare professionals

  • Acknowledging and coping with grief for caregivers and healthcare professionals

  • Contemplation and action

  • Ancient spiritual practices for today

  • Hospitality as spiritual practice

  • Prayer and practice (lectio divina, visio divina, walking the labyrinth, imaginative prayer, writing as prayer, silence, etc.)

  • Spiritual practice as resistance

  • Seasonal spirituality: letting the calendar shape our inner lives

  • Memory as spiritual practice

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