6th Biennial Spirituality Conference

Keynote SpeakersNuala Kenny, OC, MD, FRCPCProfessor Emeritus, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University; Health Policy Advisor, Catholic Health Alliance of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Carol Taylor, PhD, RNSenior Clinical Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Professor, Medicine and Nursing, Georgetown University, Washington DC

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Kevin BurnsAward winning CBC radio documentary producer, editor, and author of two books on Henri Nouwen.

Thomas Kerr, PhDCo-Director, Addiction & Urban Health Research Initiative, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver BC, Professor, Department of Medicine (Division of AIDS) & Associate Faculty, School of Populations and Public Health, University of BC, Vancouver BC

Spirituality: The Invisible Ingredient in Health and Healing

“EXPLORING HOSPITALITY”May 4 - 5, 2017

Coast Plaza Hotel & SuitesVancouver, BC

Providence Health Care is proud to present

Spirituality: The Invisible Ingredient in Health and Healing “Exploring Hospitality”

May 4-5, 2017 Vancouver, British Columbia

Providence Health Care of Vancouver, British Columbia invites you and your colleagues to participate in our sixth biennual conference that explores the integral relationship between spirituality, health and healing. Providence welcomes

• Physicians and other health care clinicians; • Health care executives and managers; researchers; • Government leaders; • Instructors especially in medicine, nursing, and other health disciplines; • Community and social services practitioners; • Primary care and religious leaders; • Educators, patients and families and all those interested in the topic.

Operative Definitions for the Conference:

Spirituality: The search for the Sacred. A conscious striving to move beyond isolation and self-absorption to a deeper awareness of interconnectedness with the self, other human beings and the transcendent. (Health Ethics Guide) Spirituality is the belief system focusing on intangible elements that impact vitality and meaning to life’s events. (Maughans…The SPIRITual History, Archives of Family Medicine, 5:11-16)

Healing: Healing is more than curing a disease. Healing takes into account the wholeness of the person, recognizing the interrelationship of body, mind and spirit. It involves the restoration of balance and acknowledges the role spirituality and/or religious belief can play in the healing process.

Conference Venue The conference will be held at the Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites in the heart of Vancouver’s colourful and cosmopolitan West End. On your doorstep is the 400-hectare Stanley Park, with walking and bicycle paths and a pedestrian seawall that takes you to the beaches and the world-famous Vancouver Aquarium. Less than a kilometre away, the city’s downtown financial, business, shopping and entertainment centre await you.

Exploring Hospitality Providence Health Care 6th Biennial Spirituality Conference Spirituality: The invisible ingredient in health and healing

May 4thand 5th, 2017 Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver, BC

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

DAY ONE

8:00 a.m. Registration and Coffee

8:45 a.m. Aboriginal Opening

Opening Prayer

9:00 a.m. Welcome

9:15 a.m. Opening Keynote Address

• Come to the Table: Rethinking our Hospitality Commitments Carol Taylor, PhD, RN If we are not receptionists or volunteers, hospitality may seem to have nothing to do with our job descriptions or core competencies, but the Gospel suggests otherwise. Christians recognize that God chose human caring in the person of Jesus as the means of salvation. The mission of Jesus was a prophetic mission--one of conversion of hearts and cultures. Our prophetic challenge is to relate the Gospel to today's culture, nurturing, nourishing, and evoking a consciousness and perception, which is an alternative to the dominant culture around us. The prophetic dimension expresses itself in wisdom, word, and witness. Let’s reflect on how our wisdom, word, and witness welcome and affirm our sisters and brothers, each neighbor we encounter. Who do we invite to our tables? Who feels affirmed and comfortable at our tables?

• Audience Discussion

10:25 a.m. Refreshments and Networking

10:50 a.m. Plenary

• All are Welcome: Hospitality and Vulnerability (50 minutes) Nuala Kenny, OC, BA, MD, FRCP(C) Hospitality raises the vision of gracious reception and nurturing care. In Scripture and in Catholic social justice, we are called to show special hospitality to the poor and vulnerable. Poverty and social vulnerability have profound negative effects on the health and well-being of individuals and communities. In this reflection we will explore the sources of vulnerability and implications for the range of supports and a hospitable environment in fostering resilience, health and well-being.

12:30 p.m. Lunch included

1:30 p.m. Concurrent Workshops • The Power of Stories and Narrative Knowledge

Nuala Kenny, OC, BA, MD, FRCP(C) In this session we will explore some stories of the illness experience of patients and families for their power to raise an understanding of what really matters in serious illness and dying. Such understanding is essential to creating an environment of care that is truly hospitable.

• The Challenge of Vulnerability in Health and Illness Carol Taylor, PhD, RN Today’s culture prizes independence and health care professionals quickly learn to respect the autonomy of patients and families. Often overlooked are the very real vulnerabilities of many we encounter. Edmund Pellegrino grounded the obligations of health care professionals in the fact that all humans are vulnerable and that professionals implicitly promise responsiveness to this vulnerability. In this interactive session, participants will use the Carse-Taylor vulnerability model to explore strategies to help humans flourish in spite of, and because of, vulnerabilities.

• A Stitch in Time: Weaving Compassion into our Tears Barbara Pesut, PhD, RN Compassion misses, those times when we fail to respond to a need, are endemic within healthcare. Such compassion misses have consequences both for our own well-being and for the moral fabric within which we do our work. The purpose of this workshop is to explore the origins of these compassion misses and practical strategies by which we can build individual capacity for compassion.

3:00 p.m. Refreshments and Networking

3:15 p.m. Plenary Address

• Henri Nouwen’s Home: Finding and Practicing Hospitality Kevin Burns “Coming home and staying there where God dwells, listening to the voice of truth and love, that was, indeed, the journey I most feared….” (Return of the Prodigal Son, p. 17.) Henri Nouwen took the long way home. Like many of us, he set out in the pursuit of a life-direction only to experience surprising detours as he found himself working hard to discover who and what he might become in the course of that journey. From the family home in Holland to a student residence in North America, from a pastoral counselling room to a lecture theatre, from the cloister to the favelas of Central and South America, from his writer’s desk to the life-changing welcome of L’Arche: Henri Nouwen shows how his was not a journey “to” any particular place he could call home, but rather the discovery of his invitation to “become” home. The Nouwen home, then, is not just a familiar spot where the heart is, it is an experience of generosity and forgiveness that is nurtured by a profound gift: hospitality. This session will trace Nouwen’s journey in order to uncover his insights into the important practice of hospitality – wherever we work and, of course, in those places we still call “home.”

• Audience Discussion

4:15 p.m. Closing

DAY TWO

7:00 a.m. Contemplative Walk for Early Risers - Meet at Registration Desk Chris Bernard, Pastoral Care Team Lead, Providence Health Care

7:30 a.m. Breakfast

8:20 a.m. Opening

8:30 a.m. Presentations

My Family’s Experience: Finding Home Peter McKnight, PhD This talk presents the personal story of one family in which both parents were diagnosed with dementia. Told from the perspective of the son, who has a background in law and ethics, the talk discusses spiritual and ethical issues in dementia from both a personal and professional perspective - and highlights the tension between these two ways of understanding and experiencing dementia.

9:00 a.m. Plenary Address

Duty to Care: Harm Reduction for People who use Drugs Thomas Kerr, PhD This talk will explore the natural history of drug addiction, including how drug-related harm is shaped by various social, structural and environmental forces. Particular attention will be given to the role that hospital environments and policies play in promoting drug-related harm. Also explored will be several ethical considerations that can help inform care delivery for people who use illicit drugs, as well as novel approaches to accommodating those with active drug addiction within hospital settings.

10:00 a.m. Refreshments and Networking

10:30 a.m. Concurrent Workshops

• Finding the Spiritual Voice in Dementia Lori Amdam, RN, MSN Society’s understanding of the spiritual needs of persons with dementia is evolving. As we age and become frail, the spirit continues to grow and develop. Emerging research tells us that dementia does not erase spiritual need and many health care practitioners now recognize the significance of spiritual wellbeing on both physical and mental health. But how does the person with dementia stay connected to spirituality as a strength and resource when he or she experiences communication barriers and memory loss? For many, spirituality remains an important aspect of “who we are” throughout life. This workshop will explore current understandings of spirituality for persons with dementia and discuss practical ways to support people with Alzheimer’s and related dementias who need help to access and express their “spiritual self” at home and in care.

• Stepping Stones for Hospitality and Creating Alliance: Lessons Learned from a Spiritual Educator Doug Longstaffe, MDiv., STM Weighty ideas of major theorists can be like large heavy rocks that when tossed into a stream do not get swept away. However, when a string of such rocks are placed in a line, together they may become stepping stones forming a bridge to the other side. In this workshop you will discover the relevance of five clear, practical stepping stones to gaining an effective alliance with patients, families colleagues or external stakeholders in healthcare. Each step has emerged from the presenter's internal wrestling with how to make practical relevance of a few key insights from renowned thinkers. As it turns out, when we see these insights together, a hospitable bridge across the river of systemic depersonalization appears before us.

• Redesigning Elder Care: Hospitality Matters Jo-Ann G. Tait, MScN, BHSc, RPN This session will address how hospitality is operationlized in caring for seniors and walk through various paradigms of traditional models, current models and models for the future. She will examine the relationship between guest and host within the context of residential care. This workshop will also reveal the findings and required culture shift from Providence Health Care's 'Residential Care for Me' initiative focused on creating a vision through a human centered design process engaging people who live, work and visit the 5 care homes.

• Forming and Nourishing Communities of Hospitality Robert Allore, PhD, SJ (In Partnership with St. Mark’s College) This workshop session will promote a consideration of the places of meaningful community in our lives today. We will also consider where we expect to find community but may be missing it. We will consider the experience of community as a locus for human growth and understanding. We will consider the impact of community on our experiences of celebration, decision making, grief and recovery.

11:30 a.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. Presentations

The Twists of Fate: Vice-President, Patient and Volunteer … Who would have Guessed? Brother Tom Maddix. CSC, D.Min

1:00 p.m. Plenary Hospitality: The Challenges of Diversity and Culture in 2017 Francis Maza, MTS We all know that caring for patients/residents and their families involves far more than looking after their physical needs. It’s about developing a relationship that communicates warmth and an understanding while we tend to their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. This is what hospitality in healthcare is all about. But the act of hospitality is more than a competency one learns, or a skill one practices. Hospitality is about a disposition of the heart that is willing to recognize and welcome the ‘other’ not as I would want them to be but as they are. The speaker will draw from his personal experiences both as beneficiary of the healthcare system and from his work in organizational culture development.

2:00 p.m. Refreshments and Networking

2:15 p.m. Plenary Address

Compassion: Bread for the Suffering Stranger Barbara Pesut, PhD, RN There is mounting tension between hospitality and nationalism in increasingly globalized societies. To help mitigate that mounting tension, there is an urgent need to pursue compassion as the bread we can offer to the suffering stranger. Although the need for compassion is widely recognized, strategies by which to realize that ideal are less well developed. Indeed, some of our strategies aimed at developing compassion have had unintended consequences. This plenary will explore opportunities for developing compassionate environments as a foundational aspect of hospitality.

3:15 p.m. Closing Session

A Fireside Chat • Christopher De Bono, PhD • Kevin Burns • Carol Taylor, PhD, RN • Robert Allore, PhD, SJ

4:15 p.m. Closing

REGISTRATIONSpirituality: The Invisible Ingredient in Health and HealingMay 4 - 5, 2017

Registration Fee Early Bird Registration(Deadline: Mar 10, 2017)

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General Two-Day Full Registration Fee* $250.00 $295.00Student/PHC Staff Two-Day Full Registration Fee* $195.00 $225.00May 4 Registration Only $150.00 $175.00May 5 Registration Only $150.00 $175.00

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