Description:
Once individuals receive a terminal prognosis, they embark upon an unexpected new journey. Their worldview is forever changed. An amazing journey into a previously unimaginable spiritual terrain is automatically set into motion, and discoveries into the meaning of life and the essence of the self, the other, and God emerge. What the dying learn about living at the end of life is their gift to us in the midst of life.

About the Author
Kathleen is an ordained Lutheran pastor with a doctorate in Psychology and Religion. All of her endeavors throughout her career or vocation have been directed by interests developed as a child of the sixties, from civil rights, to the Holocaust and post-Holocaust theology for Christians and Jews, to her work in hospice.
Kathleen has always been interested in the ultimate questions of life, the psychology behind religious beliefs and actions, and human transformation. She, in her own thinking, felt her only choice was to become a pastor and theologian. She was convinced that this was her niche to influence and change the world. To that end, Kathleen has been the pastor of three Lutheran congregations, has served as a hospice chaplain in two hospices, was the director of spiritual care and bereavement at another hospice. She lived and worked in Israel for over two years as the director of the theological department of a post-Holocaust Christian European kibbutz in the Galilee, and focused on repentance and renewal towards the Jewish people.

Objectives:

• The participants will be able to describe the spiritual shift in world view that occurs when a person learns that they have a terminal prognosis
• Participants will be able to name and describe the seven dimensions of the framework that makes up the spiritual experience of dying patients
• Participants will be able to summarize a spiritual assessment to facilitate spiritual life closure.

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