Emerging Tools for Innovative Providers

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is with our deepest regret that we are cancelling the Emerging Tools for Innovative Providers 2016. While we are pleased with the huge increase in the number of shorter local and regional events, there has been a big challenge this year to have as many individuals registered for ETIP as in years past. The ETIP committee did not come to this conclusion lightly, since we realize there are some who have registered and expressed interest year after year.

We will be going back to the drawing board and coming up with a new plan for 2017.

Sincerely,

ETIP Committee

Presentation Topics

• Forgiving oneself and others: Religion/spirituality and Things That Follow
• The Key Pathway Linking Mind and Body: The Science Underlying Risk and Resilience Informs Interventions
• Integrated Spiritual Care Assessment—Applications for Clinicians and Caregivers
• Spiritual Care Assessment and Intervention for Transformational Experience
• What Do I Say? Principles for Patient Conversations
• When Does Good News Become Bad News? Research and Clinical Perspectives about the Ethics of Spiritual Care
• Perfectionistic Patients: Recognizing, Understanding & Working with these Challenging Cases
• Religious Comfort, Strain & Affective Outcomes in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings
• The Emerging Vision: Building the Tool Set and Designing Practical Applications in Spirituality & Health, Including Assessment, Immediate Impact and Transformational Experience

The overall focus of the conference centers on the kind of long term impact that caregivers can expect to facilitate in transformational interactions like we commonly experience in our real world settings, while the materials being presented represent the latest information emerging from spirituality and health research. This research applies to a wide range of healthcare administrators, clergy, chaplains, nurses, psychologists, social workers, educators, therapists, counselors, physicians, criminal justice workers, and other caregivers.

Conference Speakers

Harold G. Koenig, MD
Everett L. Worthington, Jr., PhD
Julie Bowers, PhD
Elizabeth JohnstonTaylor, PhD, RN
Kenneth T. Wang, PhD
Alexis D. Abernethy, PhD
Lee Berk, DrPH
Sheryl Tyson, PhD, RN, PMHCNS

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN - www.etip2016.com

July 25 - 29, 2016
Fuller Theological Seminary
Pasadena, CA

CROSSROADS....
Exploring research on religion, spirituality and health
Newsletter of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Volume 5, Issue 4, October 2015

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CROSSROADS...
Exploring research on religion, spirituality and health
Newsletter of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Volume 5, Issue 2, August 2015

http://www.spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu/images/pdfs/CSTH%20Newsletter%20August%202015.pdf

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CONTACT: Don Lehr – The Nolan/Lehr Group
(212) 967-8200 / [email protected]

YOUTH ESSAY COMPETITION ON THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, TOLERANCE, AND LOVE FOR ALL HUMANITY

A new essay competition for young people ages 12 to 21 to support the principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and love for all humanity without exception regardless of belief, was announced today by the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, a non-profit public charity founded in 2001 in Cleveland, Ohio, and currently based in New York (www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org).

The Institute supports research and education on “Unlimited Love” at the interface of science and spiritual thought through conferences, publications, and grants to scholars at universities throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. It is now expanding its activities to youth through worldwide essay competitions.

Stephen G. Post, Ph.D., president and founder of the Institute, defines love as follows: “When the happiness, well-being and security of another is as meaningful to you as your own, you love that person. Unlimited Love, often associated with spirituality and religions at their best, extends this love beyond our nearest and dearest, and beyond those who believe as we do, to all humanity based on our shared dignity and interdependence.”

“Human progress requires a peaceful co-existence between religions, freedom of religion, and a respectful tolerance of individuals and groups with widely different beliefs, but recent world events demonstrate that these values cannot be taken for granted,” says Dr. Post. “Unfortunately, in some places around the world religious hatred is found in children as young as four years of age, and intolerance leading to religious persecution and violence is on the rise. We want to encourage youth to help us find a path to a future where Unlimited Love for all humanity replaces religious hatred, brutality, and violence.”

The essay competition draws from one of the Guiding Questions which drive the Institute’s research strategy and collaborations, namely, “How can the major religions of the world come to abide in their various concepts of universal love, and practice love for all humanity rather than merely for those who adhere to a particular set of beliefs?”

The Institute invites youth to write essays that encourage all people and religions to abide by the principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and love for all humanity. Stories and reflections from personal experience can be a valuable part of the essay, including the motivations for speaking out through essay writing. The Institute offers a series of questions on its website to spark imaginations, including:
• If you were able to speak to a fellow young person in your own religion who advocated religious hatred, how would you engage him or her? What would motivate you to do so? What would you say, and how would you steer him or her to Unlimited Love?
• If you were confronted with religious hatred from a fellow young person in a different religion, how would you respond, and why?
• Can religious arrogance and hatred be replaced by a spirituality of tolerance, equal respect, freedom, mutual appreciation, and love?
• How might the spiritual principle of Unlimited Love be lived out and achieved in practice? Can it be shared and promoted within religious communities or even between different religious communities?
• Could a religious toleration youth movement be developed across all religions worldwide? What tools might make this possible that were not available in the past?

An international panel of Institute advisors will choose the winning essays, which will be published on the Institute’s website and included in a forthcoming book. Essays can vary in length but should be no longer than 1500 words, double-spaced, and written in English. Three competition cycles are planned with up to two prizes in each cycle (first prize US $1,000, second prize US $500). The due date for the first cycle is October 30, 2015. Essays or inquiries should be submitted as email attachments to [email protected]. Complete details for submitting essays are available at the Institute’s website at http://unlimitedloveinstitute.org/institute-activities/program-areas/.

Home Page - The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site

Dear Mary,

I am writing you to encourage you to help spread the word on this global youth essay contest designed to inoculate young people a bit from the appeals of extreme religious radicalism. In a mere several days the response has been enormous, entirely global, and very much to the liking of teens and young adults. I attach the press release from the renowned Don Lehr of NYC. I am here today on July 4th handling a radio interview already that will go live to 58 nations.

I ask you to help save a few lives – just read about this on the url below and merely “Forward” this email to at least five people of influence in education, media, public opinion, etc. As you know, the Institute, founded in 2001, has a global following including an e-newsletter that if read by 860,000 +, and has gained special appeal in the middle east. For this reason, our website was among the first several hacked by ISIS team DZ last year.

http://unlimitedloveinstitute.org/institute-activities/program-areas/

On Facebook, in a mere three days, 27,000 + reached 9000+ “likes” and building on the contest, mostly from young people in the middle east and India. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Institute-for-Research-on-Unlimited-Love/226619767528513?ref=hl
I am asking for your help to make this essay contest a global success. This may be one of the potentially successful “nonkilling” approaches that everyone knows we need worldwide, one that focuses on the gift of the mind in young people.

Thanks.

Stephen G. Post, PhD, Founder and President

New Institute Activities - The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love YOUTH ESSAY COMPETITIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, TOLERANCE, AND LOVE FOR ALL HUMANITY (FIRST PRIZE U.S. $1000, SECOND PRIZE U.S. $500) We are pleased to announce a new essay competition for young people ages 12 to 21 to support the

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