A1 Spiritual Care in Pediatric Behavioral Health: A Collaborative Model

Todd Baucum, D.Min., Th.M. BCC

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Workshop Summary:This workshop will highlight the importance and need for chaplains to integrate into the interdisciplinary team of behavioral health on issues of suicidal ideation, trauma and grief among children and adolescents.  Best practices for chaplains and holistic approaches to therapy groups, spiritual assessments and staff support will be covered.

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A2
Introduction to Fire Service Culture for Chaplains         Floyd A. Ferguson,  MS, APBCC-HPC- FR

Workshop Summary:                                                                                                 This workshop will focus on an introduction to the culture of the fire service for chaplains. For the chaplain who is tasked with ministering to firefighters, understanding the fire personality and fire culture is a priority need. This course will introduce participants to the combinations of personality and work environment that is common to most fire departments everywhere in the world.

 

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A3
Offering AID: A Chaplain Led Intervention for Debriefing Critical Incidents
Aaron Unseth, MDiv, BCC

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Workshop Summary:                                                                                                 This workshop will introduce a chaplain-led model for critical incident debriefings. This model is deeply trauma informed and allows healthcare chaplains to do what they do best--facilitate a time for staff members to make meaning out of critical incidents while fostering peer to peer support. Participants will understand  why researchers are challenging the traditional model of CISM/CISD debriefs, will better understand stress and trauma responses in healthcare staff following critical incidents, will hear an argument for why chaplains are uniquely positioned to lead critical incident debriefs, and will learn about a new approach to debriefs that can replace CISD.

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A4
From Boomers to Zoomers: Navigating Generational Differences for Effective Faith Community Nursing
Danna Williamson

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Workshop Summary:                                                                                             Have you ever wondered how your age impacts your Faith Community Nursing practice? This workshop addresses the challenges and opportunities presented by the generational differences within faith communities as they relate to the practice of Faith Community Nursing.

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A5
Common-Based Contemplation: Collective Existential Care as Liberation Practice                                                   Anthony Cruz Pantojas, MATS, MALS, BCC

Workshop Summary:                                                                                                   As spiritual care providers navigate an increasingly fragmented world, the need for liberation-oriented practices that transcend individualistic therapeutic models becomes necessary. This presentation introduces commons-based contemplation as a decolonial framework that positions collective existential care as a resistance to systems of dehumanization, oppression, and instantiates pathways towards shared flourishing. Drawing from my doctoral research on Afro-Caribbean embodied traditions, clinical experience across four CPE units, and programmatic innovations as the first Afro-Caribbean Humanist Chaplain in North American higher education, this workshop offers contemplative practices rooted in acompamiento (accompaniment) and convivencia (shared life and struggle). Throughout, the workshop discusses transformative alternatives to conventional spiritual care models for this sociopolitical moment

 

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A6
Compassionate Communication Initiative: Sharing Chaplain Communication Skills with RNs & CNAs           Caitlin Kennell Kim, MDiv, APBCC

Rev. Cyrus Jordan, MDiv

Workshop Summary:                                                                                                   As chaplains, we receive significant training in communicating in ways where people feel heard.  But these aren't secret or complicated skills! This workshop will explore a chaplain initiative to both teach Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication skills and provide space for practicing these skills to RNs & CNAs on inpatient units in order to improve staff resiliency and patient experience.

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A7
Spiritual Pain: What is it and How to Find Healing         Teri Helton, MSN, RN

Workshop Summary:                                                                                                   As chaplains, we receive significant training in communicating in ways where people feel heard.  But these aren't secret or complicated skills! This workshop will explore a chaplain initiative to both teach Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication skills and provide space for practicing these skills to RNs & CNAs on inpatient units in order to improve staff resiliency and patient experience.

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