Spring Retreat – May 2, 2025
Self-Awareness and Surroundings
Session One: Intrapersonal Awareness
This session will explore the importance of self-awareness in professional chaplaincy. We will explore different aspects of self-awareness such as emotions, culture, prejudices, and values. We will consider how our personal beliefs about the nature of human beings, human development, and free will may influence our reception of others.
Session Two: Interpersonal Awareness
This session will propose aspects to consider deepening our awareness of those to whom we minister. We will also explore the importance of being aware of what we may encounter at the intersection of what defines us, such as culture, race, and ethnicity, and those to whom we minister. We will discuss how behavior and perceptions shape interactions and relationships.
Session Three: Embodied Awareness
This session will move beyond cognitive awareness to engaging the body as a means of connecting more fully in the present moment in our chaplain care. We will learn practices we can draw upon to increase the space we have available for receiving the other into our care.
Conference Agenda
Yearly CAO Membership: (This gets you a discount for the fall & spring events)
For 2024-2025 $35
Cost for Conference:
(Each viewer in a group must register individually, at the below cost)
Member: $30 Non-Member: $50 CPE Intern $25
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