National Spiritual Care Summit

A joint project by City of Hope and the George Washington Institute of Spirituality and Health, sponsored by the Archstone Foundation

We are pleased to announce a new project, described in this press release. GWish is partnering with City of Hope to hold a Spirituality Summit to develop tools and resources in spiritual care. This project is sponsored by the Archstone Foundation.

A key component of this project is a white paper or policy paper that will be used to help frame future research and projects in Spirituality and Health. If you are interested in this project, and/or interested in contributing clinical or educational resources in spiritual care, please let me know by email at hcscmp@gwumc.edu.

I look forward to hearing from you.
— Christina Puchalski

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day – India
Wednesday October 8, 2008
To celebrate World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on October 11, 2008, CanSupport will hold a full day workshop together with the Foundation of Universal Responsibility of HH The Dalai Lama in New Delhi, India

The title of the workshop is “Finding Meaning from Life in the Face of Death’. Speakers will range from the religious to the secular and will include practitioners of hospice and palliative care. The purpose is to start a dialogue that will begin the process of evolving toolkits, rooted in different religious and secular traditions, so as to help people deal with the spiritual and existential crises that they experience at the end of life.

The workshop will be followed by an evening outdoor concert at the India International Centre which will be open to the public and will include healing music from diverese religious traditions in India.

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