Nine presentations from subject-matter experts. Sponsored by SLIconnect & Religious Formation Conference. Available live with presenter interaction and as on-demand presentation recordings afterwards.
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Part 1: The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart: Resilience, Compassion, Self-Care & the Prevention of Secondary Stress / Los sencillos cuidados de un corazón esperanzado: Resiliencia, compasión, autocuidado y prevención del estrés secundario
Live: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET / En vivo: martes 25 de marzo de 2025 | 11 a. m. - 12:30 p.m. ET
This presentation is in English, with Spanish simultaneous translation. There will be recordings that feature Spanish audio and English audio as well and English and Spanish subtitles. / Esta presentación es en inglés, con traducción simultánea al español. Habrá grabaciones con audio en español y en inglés, así como subtítulos en inglés y español.
By discussing psychological and classic spiritual approaches to maintaining a healthy sense of perspective and inner strength in challenging times, Professor Emeritus of Loyola University Maryland and internationally acclaimed author, Robert Wicks, Psy.D., offers insights into how we can enhance our resilience without losing our own inner fire in the process.
Al analizar enfoques psicológicos y espirituales clásicos para mantener un sentido saludable de perspectiva y fortaleza interior en tiempos difíciles, el profesor emérito de la Universidad Loyola Maryland y autor aclamado internacionalmente, Robert Wicks, Psy.D., ofrece ideas sobre cómo podemos mejorar nuestra resiliencia sin perder nuestro propio fuego interior en el proceso.
Part 2: What's Happening in the Body and Mind? An Explanation of the Trauma Response
Live: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | 1 - 2:30 p.m. ET
Licensed psychologist and Saint Luke Institute clinician, Taryn Walker, Psy.D., provides foundational information regarding the psychological and physiological impacts of trauma, and discusses what the road to recovery looks like.
Part 3: Do You Know Who I Am?: Trauma-Informed Accompaniment
Live: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | 3 - 4:30 p.m. ET
Lynn M. Levo, CSJ, Ph.D., colleague of Saint Luke Institute and Religious Formation Conference, licensed psychologist, and international presenter, highlights that trauma, now known to be more common than previously acknowledged, can limit each person’s ability to live fully and freely in the present. Accompaniers (especially those in initial formation and leaders) are invited to understand their own responses to trauma, and consider how to respond to it in others.
Part 4: When Church Hurts: Empowering a Lay Response
Live: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET
In this presentation, Cathy Melesky Dante, MDiv, LCSW, Ph.D. (ABD), of Marquette University, highlights why the laity are a necessary part of responding to current stresses and trauma in the life of the U.S. Church, and how lay people can do so in their own contexts.
Part 5: The Healing Power of Beauty
Live: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 1 - 2:30 p.m. ET
Through his own paintings and stories, internationally-acclaimed sacred artist Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS, will share how the making of art provides people with new ways to pray and leads to spiritual, emotional, and psychological healing.
Part 6: Resiliencia en un mundo con culturas violentas / Resilience in a World with Violent Cultures
En vivo: miércoles 26 de marzo de 2025 | 3 - 4:30 p.m., hora del Este de EE. UU.
Live: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 3 - 4:30 p.m. ET
Esta presentación es en español, con traducción simultánea al inglés. Habrá grabaciones con audio en español y en inglés, así como subtítulos en inglés y español. / This presentation is in Spanish, with English simultaneous translation. There will be recordings that feature Spanish audio and English audio as well and English and Spanish subtitles.
El objetivo de esta presentación es ofrecer visiones que puedan ayudar a iluminar nuestra presencia ministerial dondequiera que estemos. La teóloga Hma. Griselda Martínez Morales, CSJ, ofrece una lectura de las realidades que nos afectan diariamente; reflexionando sobre los traumas socioambientales de hoy, desde lo individual hasta lo colectivo.
The goal of this talk is to point out some insights that can help to illuminate our ministerial presences wherever we are. Theologian Sr. Griselda Martínez Morales, CSJ, offers a reading of realities that affect us daily; reading the socio-environmental traumas of today, from the individual to the collective.
Part 7: The Role of Addiction and Trauma in the Formation Process
Live: Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET
Director of Education and Aftercare at Saint Luke Institute, Stephen Carroll, Ph.D., LCPC, provides models to help those preparing others for ministry to recognize indicators of trauma and addiction, reviews critical listening skills to attend to trauma survivors’ emotional and spiritual needs, and indicates tools to help determine when trauma or addiction symptoms need professional care.
Part 8: Fostering the Mental Health-Aware Parish
Live: Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 1 - 2:30 p.m. ET
In this session, recognized religious educator and faith-formation leader, Mike Carotta, Ph.D., offers three characteristics of a mental health-aware parish, as well as four dynamics involved in personal accompaniment with those who have been impacted by a painful experience.
Part 9: Posttraumatic Growth: It’s a Real Thing!
Live: Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 3 - 4:30 pm ET
In this session, psychotherapist, SLIconnect presenter, and colleague of the Religious Formation Conference, Mary Pat Garvin, RSM, Ph.D., explores posttraumatic growth - those enduring positive life-giving changes that follow a highly challenging experience / trauma.