Department of Spiritual Care staff is available to speak at retreats, facilitate workshops and provide adult education programs for your congregation or community’s specific needs. For information or to discuss possible programs, please call Dave Wendleton or Donna Oiland at 425.899.1046.
Presentation subjects include:
Facing Our Own Mortality
Living with the end in mind, personal attitudes about death, values and loss assessment exercises
Getting Things in Order
Living Wills, Advanced Directives, Funeral Arrangements, Organ and Tissue Donation
“Caring Conversations”
A series on how to have difficult conversations around end-of-life issues.
Creating Legacy
Remembering your stories and capturing them for future generations.
Ethical Wills
Who am I? What do I value? What people have influenced my life? How will I be remembered?
Life Review
How to create an enduring memoir, fashioning a multi-media autobiography.
Caring for the Caregiver
Boundaries, self care, being comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Grief and Loss, Loss as Loss
Spirituality in Caregiving
Hospice 101
What does it mean? “I came to die and I learned to live.”
Approaching Death
What does it look like? How can we be prepared, Anticipated grief.
How to Talk to Someone Who is Dying
Art of Communication
Active listening, create an environment for patient/care receiver to feel they can say anything to you, you are present, understanding and connected. Discover the impact that finding and understanding your own story has on your ability to be an engaged, active listener for the people for whom you have been the opportunity to care.
The Sandwich Generation
What do they need in their lunchbox?
The Healing Power of Humor
"On Our Own Terms"
Four-part video series from PBS produced by Bill Moyers on Death in America. Includes discussion guide.