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Healthcare Chaplains Study Day: Making our Cases: Using story and data to demonstrate value
Date and time: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 10:30 - 16:30 BST
Location: Wesley's Chapel and Leysian Mission, 49 City Road London EC1Y 1AU
One of the challenges for healthcare chaplaincy is to develop ways of demonstrating the benefit, impact and value of our care. Chaplains' work often relates to more intangible aspects of patient and staff care, which can be difficult to quantify and measure using traditional healthcare metrics. This study day (supported by the Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains and the Free Churches Group,) is open to anyone to attend and will explore different and creative ways to showcase the positive influence of chaplaincy services.
Confirmed speakers include:
· Mark Evans, National Adviser for Spiritual Care in the Scottish Government on ‘Developing a Minimum Data Set in Scotland’.
· Frin Lewis-Smith, specialist chaplain for oncology and palliative care at Leeds Teaching Hospitals on ‘Spiritual pain by Numbers?’
· Steve Nolan Bereavement & Spiritual Care Lead, Princess Alice Hospice and Visiting Research Fellow at University of Winchester on ‘Learning from Case Studies.’
· Clare Pye, Research & Innovation Manager at St Luke's Hospice in Sheffield
Alongside speaker presentations, the day will include live storytelling from a number of chaplains as a way of exploring how stories can connect, challenge, inspire and validate us.
If you are a Free Church Chaplain or a member of AHPCC, please get in touch with Mark Newitt at mark.newitt@freechurches.org.uk for the discounted price.
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Trauma and Response: A Theological Reflection, Free Webinar
Free Church Healthcare Chaplains Annual Study Day is an opportunity to step back, draw breath and reflect on the impact of the experience of trauma.
Wed, 4 November 2020
14:00 – 16:00 GMT
The Free Churches Group is hosting the Annual Healthcare Chaplains Study Day on the subject, "Trauma and Response: a theological reflection". This is an opportunity to step back, draw breath and reflect on the impact of the experience of trauma. Our thoughts will be led by Rev Sue Shortman, a Methodist Minister in the Birmingham District, with opportunities for discussion in break-out groups.
This event is organised by the Healthcare Chaplaincy Steering Committee on behalf of the Free Churches Group and is aimed at Free Church Chaplains, but others of different denominations, faith/belief groups, are welcome to attend.
This event will be held via Zoom. Booking is now open via Eventbrite here.
Login information will be sent to you by email nearer the time. For more information please contact Revd Meg Burton at meg.burton@freechurches.org.uk
Programme details:
2:00pm Gathering and opening devotions
Song Be Still Hillsong Worship
2:15pm Session 1 Trauma and response
Looking at the story of Noah, particularly his wife and her role in the call they received and thinking about our response to trauma.
10 minutes break out session for Trauma and response
2:50pm Session 2 Waiting and surviving
How do we allow ourselves time to stop and wait and in that waiting find strategies for surviving, using Psalm 62 and a poem.
10 minutes break out session for Waiting and surviving
3:20pm Session 3 Transformation
Using the story of Pentecost and the experience of the disciples how are we transformed through our experiences?
10 minutes break out session for Transformation
3:45pm Closing devotions
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Free webinar for Chaplains and Christian leaders: 2 June at 1.30 p.m. Reflective Practice: a Pathway to the Heart
Photo by Guillaume LORAIN on Unsplash
Date: 2 June, 2020 at 1.30 p.m. – 3.45 p.m.
Venue: wherever you like – as long as you have a screen and are connected to the internet (we’ll be using Zoom)
Cost: Free!
Who is it for?: Chaplains in healthcare, prison or education settings, or any other setting; Christian leaders; anyone who is interested.
We’ve talked to a lot of chaplains and other leaders recently, and understand something of the range of new pressures that the Coronavirus pandemic has brought with it. These pressures and challenges have opened up new opportunities for many people, but there has been little time to stop and reflect.
We’re offering you the opportunity to take a bit of time out for yourself – time to ponder, time to think, and time to learn how to embed reflective practice in your ministry.
Mark Stobert, chair of UK Board of Healthcare Chaplaincy (UKBHC) and Lead Chaplain at Cambridge University Hospitals, will present the webinar.
More details and information are available HERE
Please register here to book.
You will receive the links to join the webinar if you book in advance.
A participants guide to Reflective Practice Sessions is available to download here:
Faiths, Health & Wellbeing Seminar
Main Topic – End of Life Care
When: 24 May 2017 - 09:00 to 15:30
Where: Postgraduate Centre, QE Hospital (opposite hospital main entrance)
This is a free event for members of faith communities, voluntary & community services, chaplains, educationists, health & care workers, patients & individuals interested in faith, health & wellbeing.
Please bring your own packed lunch.
There is a pay multistorey car park nearby, Trains to the University station, and buses from several routes.
Contact: Book your place with Dr Peter Rookes at pjrookes@gmail.com, phone 477 2282 or 077 033 360 88