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Communication Skills Training: How to Deliver “Bad News”
CE: 2.00Price: $50.00

Having to give bad news to patients happens frequently in healthcare arenas and many times healthcare professionals have not received training and education on how to compassionately and competently deliver bad news. Research has demonstrated that educating and reeducating healthcare professionals how to deliver bad news using a tool decreases patient distress and improves healthcare professional confidence and empathetic response thereby creating a better encounter for everyone involved.

This course will focus on providing healthcare professional education on the available tools and frameworks available to deliver bad news and provide education on how to implement one of these tools when having to discuss difficult information with patients.

Facilitating Stress Support Groups
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CE: 1.00

“Stress is a story that wants to be shared and needs to be heard.” Vice President of Mission and Ministry and ACPE Certified Chaplain Educator Jay Perez presents Six basic, adaptable principles upon which to build crisis support groups of various kinds. This course is designed for chaplains providing care in the clinical setting, often called to provide brief, time-limited end-of-shift debriefings for care teams facing stress, cumulative grief, and other critical incidents. It leads through a transformative care model that begins with hearing the stress story and pointing a way forward to resilience and hope. This course reflects our “Love Me” service standard as spiritual caregivers extending the healing ministry of Christ to interdisciplinary team members.

Faith and Loss: Don Williams: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00

Why does the bible tell us it's better to go to a funeral than a party? Is this life really only a meaningless chasing after winds?

In a time of pain and loss, what does the message of Ecclesiastes, the Bible's most enigmatic book, have to offer today? In this session of Faith and Loss Don Williams, author of "A Time for Every Season", a novel based on Ecclesiastes, will explore its counsel for living in a broken world.

Faith and Loss: James Appel: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
Dr. James Appel has for thirteen years been serving as a physician in African hospitals developed through the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with his wife and children, Dr. Appel has experienced deepened faith as well as heartbreaking loss during these years. With great honesty Dr. Appel shares his wrestling with faith and grief and hope for the future.
Faith and Loss: Lucy Kalanithi: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
Published in early 2016, When Breath Becomes Air became an instant best-seller. Dr. Paul Kalanithi was near completion of years of training to become a neurosurgeon when he received a diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer. As this young physician suddenly found himself a patient, he turned to writing as he wrestled with suffering and loss, along with love and hope. Paul died before his memoir was finished; however, his wife Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, completed the book, and in her speaking engagement at ADU, speaks openly about her husband, their relationship, and what sustained them at the end of his life.
Forgive to Live: How Forgiveness May Save Your Life
CE: 2.00Price: $100.00

Forgiveness facilitation is one of many therapies currently incorporated in holistic healthcare practice. Training in facilitating forgiveness in patients is not readily accessible. As Christians we understand the overwhelming need for forgiveness both for our salvation and relationship with God and others, but during this course, you'll not only see the spiritual importance, but the physical reality of forgiveness as well.This course will provide you with the practical steps in facilitating forgiveness. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to recognize, express, and apply techniques to show patients how to forgive; research has shown that forgiveness lowers blood pressure and calms the heart rate.

Forgive to Live: How Forgiveness Can Save Your Life offers a clear road-map that spells out how people can find health and wholeness by forgiving the ones who have hurt them. Regardless of race, creed, color, or background everyone has been hurt by someone in the the past and needs to learn how to forgive (not just be told to forgive). Forgive to Live isn't just a catchy title or memorable slogan; it describes an effective way to function in an unfair world that can give you peace and joy that so far may have eluded you.

Integrity: Joel Hunter: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
Dr. Joel Hunter is Pastor of Northland, A Church Distributed, in Central Florida with worshipping communities around the world. As an evangelical pastor who addresses controversial issues yet is seen as “always the same guy.” How does this influential pastor, spiritual advisor to a U.S. President, sustain his personal and professional integrity? Drawing insight from Christian scripture, microbiology, and business leaders, Dr. Hunter engages the theme of Integrity from all sides.
Integrity: Rita Charon: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
Dr. Rita Charon, who holds both the MD degree as well as PhD in English, speaks from the perspective of narrative medicine as she explores the topic of Integrity. From sources as diverse as Thomas Merton, Gandhi, Dorothy Day, and Paul Cezanne, Dr. Charon explores how caregivers can connect with patients through the patient’s story, in the practices of attending and listening.
Moral Courage: Carl Wilkens: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
In a powerful story of love and courage in the midst of terrible violence, Carl Wilkens and his wife Teresa bear witness to the history of genocide in Rwanda in the early 1990s. Wilkens weaves footage from a documentary of their experience with his account of the family’s development and relief work in Rwanda prior to the genocide, and relief work after. Wilkens was the sole American who remained in the country during the violence.
Moral Courage: Eva Fogelman and Rabbi Baruch Goldstein: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
Two speakers share lived experiences from the Holocaust, Dr. Fogelman, a psychologist and daughter of a Jewish baker protected by a Russian, and Rabbi Goldstein who survived more than two years in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Dr. Fogelman’s personal search and professional journey has explored The Rescuers, “the Righteous Among the Nations,” non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews. Rabbi Goldstein recalls historical events of the Holocaust through his own and his family’s experience; both are gripping accounts.
Moral Courage: Rebecca Skloot: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
Author Rebecca Skloot shares her passion for science and for writing in the story of how she came to write The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. From an early curiosity about the woman behind the HeLa cells that have enabled vast medical advances, Ms. Skloot tells of her journey of developing relationships with the Lacks family, gaining their trust, and telling their story, as she wrestles with questions of “people being used in science.”
Moral Courage: The Lacks Family: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
Two relatives of the late Henrietta Lacks, Veronica Spencer (a great-granddaughter) and Mrs. Shirley Lacks (daughter-in-law of Henrietta Lacks), share the story of their family’s journey through the scientific and medical research accomplished through the use of Henrietta’s cells, the HeLa cell. Author Rebecca Skloot and Henrietta’s daughter Deborah explored the life of Henrietta, which resulted in Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Reflective Conversations in Coaching Relationships
CE: 1.00Price: $50.00

This course encourages reflective conversation as a leadership practice and wholeness-nurturing coaching tool.

Resilience: Angela Duckworth: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
Dr. Angela Duckworth is a professor and researcher in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She asks what makes the different between having talent and actually succeeding? Across fields of education, the military, sales, sports, and music, Dr. Duckworth identifies the quality of “grit,” made up of perseverance and passion. What makes some achieve, while others equally talented, do not? Dr. Duckworth is the author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
Resilience: David Lyons: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
David Lyons shares his story of having been a body builder with a successful business in television, when he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Through his faith and several significant relationships, David built resilience to battle this progressive disease and went on to be awarded “Most Influential Body Builder” in Florida.
Resilience: Deogratias Niyizonkiza: ADU Colloquium
CE: 1.00Price: $5.00
Dr. Deogratias Niyizonkiza’s dramatic story of survival of two genocides in the 1990s was featured in Tracy Kidder’s book Strength in What Remains. “Deo” shares his life experience in Burundi and Rwanda, as well as his work in health care in rural Burundi through Village Health Works; his is a lived example of Resilience.