INSTRUCTIONS:
Pre Conference Day - Wednesday April 13. There are a variety of options for this day. Please make your choice and then choose the workshops.

Preconference Full Day WITH full conference registration $125.00
Please check this box for to pay for either a full day workshop or a selection of morning and afternoon workshops on Wednesday April 13. Then choose your workshops from below

Preconference Full Day WITHOUT full registration $150.00
Please check this box for to pay for either a full day workshop or a selection of morning and afternoon workshops on Wednesday April 13. Then choose your workshops from below

Half day Preconference WITH full registration $ 75.00
Please check this box to pay for a selection of morning OR afternoon workshops on Wednesday April 13. Then choose your workshops from below

Half Day Preconference WITHOUT full conference registration $ 95.00
Please check this box to pay for a selection of morning OR afternoon workshops on Wednesday April 13. Then choose your workshops from below

Pre Conference Workshop Wednesday 9:00am - 4:00pm
P1 Ethics Module $125.00
Ethics Committee Team
The Ethics Education Module program has been developed to enhance our understanding of the CASC/ACSS Code of Ethics for Chaplains, Pastoral Counselors, Pastors, Pastoral Educators and Students, and to ensure integration of this code into our lives as spiritual care professionals.
If you are certified as a Specialist in Pastoral Care / Pastoral Counselling or as a Teaching Supervisor, you are required to complete an Ethics Education Module as part of the Peer Review process in order to maintain your certification status. This requirement can be fulfilled at any time during the 5 year period prior to your Peer Review consultation.

Pre Conference Workshop - Wednesday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
P2 Nurturing Self While Exploring our Story through the Expressive Arts $15.00
Deb Kirkpatrick and Dan Brister
This workshop will present some of the therapeutic artwork done by Deb Kirkpatrick and Dan Brister that has helped to transform their experiences of trauma into opportunities for personal growth. The workshop will consider the Jungian concept of active imagination as the theoretical basis for the work undertaken and its utility in connecting with unconscious material. This will be illustrated by presenter's vignettes drawn from their own stories and accompanied by their artwork, and crystallized in participant's minds through their personal exploration of their own story through expressive arts using supplied materials during the workshop. The content of the personal vignettes may prove to be disturbing to some participants. Given the interactive nature of the workshop, cost of materials, and space requirements, participation should be limited to a maximum of 15 persons. We would like to ask participants to pay a small surcharge to offset the cost of materials to be used.

Pre Conference - Wednesday 9:00am - 12:00pm
P3 Understanding and Improving Spiritual Health with Palliative Care Clients and Health Care Providers
Peter Barnes
This workshop is intended to consider how spiritual care deepens the engagement with hospice palliative care (HPC) clients. Healthcare Professionals (HCP) and volunteers will be helped to see how they can deliver effective spiritual care with HPC clients, appropriate to their spiritual care scope of practice. In addition the participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own grief and how this may be a resource in their delivery of spiritual care with HPC clients.

Pre Conference Workshop - Wednesday 9:00am - 10:15am
P4 Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention
Craig Matsu-Pissot
This workshop on Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention will discuss the use of mindfulness meditation based techniques as a viable psychospiritual tool in understanding the dynamics of the mind that lead to substance abuse and how to address these dynamics in skillful ways that will assist the individual in their recovery.

Pre Conference Workshop - Wednesday 10:30am - 12:00pm
P5 Trauma Informed Care: Overcoming Compassion Fatigue and Traumatization
Craig Matsu-Pissot and Ayesha Sackey
This workshop will explore and address compassion fatigue and primary and secondary traumatization among clients/patients and clinicians and ways to recognize and alleviate these conditions using material from both existing research and also cross cultural spiritual perspectives.

Pre Conference Workshop - Wednesday 1:00pm - 4:00pm
P6 Examining the Role of Spiritual Care Professionals to Promote and Nurture Organizational-level Promising Practices Supporting Spiritual Care Delivery

Peter Barnes and Paul Holyoke

In secular healthcare organizations, responsibility for end-of-life spiritual care often falls to frontline providers who feel unprepared, and to Spiritual Care Professionals who feel stretched. Could these organizations support spiritual care better? From hospices operated on religious/spiritual traditions, we gathered nine organizational-level Axioms and promising practices for better support. We will discuss the Axioms and their feasibility, and discuss Spiritual Care Professionals’ possible role in leading and nurturing their promotion and adoption.

Pre Conference Workshop - Wednesday 1:00pm - 2:15 pm
P7 Patient and Family Centered Care
Anne Tuppurainen Join Anne Tuppurainen, a Spiritual Health Practitioner at Saint Paul’s Hospital, in an interactive and interdisciplinary workshop that reviews the theory of Patient and Family Centered Care (PFCC) and highlights the significant positive impact it has on patients and their families. Participants will review the theory behind PFCC, hear the personal stories of a social worker and a family representative who have experienced the impact of Patient and Family Centered Care, and also have opportunity to share and discuss their own stories.

Pre Conference Workshop - Wednesday 1:00pm - 2:15pm
P8 From 'Riches to Rags' A Country in Distress (Loving and Understanding our Neighbors)
Marj Pettinger
Zimbabwe is a country of deep contrast. A country that has gone from being called 'the Bread Basket of Africa' to being one of the poorest countries in the world with statistic quoting the unemployment rate at nearly 90%. Yet for all that Zimbabwe is a beautiful country. I invite you to journey with me as I share my experiences through listening to the stories of my newfound friends and colleagues in a country that has been through so much in such a short time. A country that has become my second home and where I feel loved and accepted as a family.

Pre Conference Workshop - Wednesday 2.30pm - 4:00pm
P9 Weaving a Bag, Weaving a Story$15.00
Chief Janice George and elder Buddy Joseph
In this workshop first nations, elder Buddy Joseph and Chief Janice George will lead participants in an experience of traditional Coast Salish weaving.
It will be explained how the personal story of the participants can be reflected in the designs incorporated into a personal bag. The process is an experiential means of exploring aspects of self-awareness related to one's own spiritual identity. The gentle meditative frame of mind that emerges through the process can at times have a significant impact that reaches far past the workshop as individuals discover unexpected aspects of their journey. Good feelings, energy and prayers are woven into the piece. Kits will be provided at $15 per person (cap 25 people)

Pre Conference Workshop - 2:30 - 4:00pm
P10 Identity Transition in Adult Disability
Laura Sportack
Presentation of a Narrative Therapy informed, six week, Group Therapy model called "Transitions" for adult living with physical disability. The group format is a weekly, structured, closed group of short duration that quickly creates connection and identification among the group members. It can be used as the basis for offering a group that meets monthly and becomes a minimally facilitated peer support group.