April 26, 2010
Monday
9:30 am – 2:30 pm

Program Fee: $70
  (includes lunch)
Early Reg. Discount: $60
if registered by 2/12
Contact Hours:3.5 (.35 CEUs)
Approved by the
• National Board for Certified Counselors
• Pennsylvania Certification Board• • Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors.

These lectures will explore autobiographical accounts of living with psychiatric disorder in order to better understand the most profound aspects of psychic anguish and the spiritual issues associated with such suffering.  Memoirs produced by persons experienced in such soul-suffering have much to teach all of us about identity, the nature of suffering itself, care that harms and care that helps, and how to seek healing even if cure is not an option.

Kathleen J. Greider is Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University.  She is a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and a clinician and supervisor at The Clinebell Institute for Pastoral Counseling and Psychotherapy, located on the campus of Claremont School of Theology.  Rev. Dr. Greider also has experience in parish ministry, spiritual direction, in-patient mental health, and hospital chaplaincy.  She is the author of Reckoning with Aggression: Theology, Violence, and Vitality (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1997) and Much Madness is Divinest Sense: Wisdom in Memoirs of Soul-Suffering (Pilgrim Press, 2007).