$75 registration; $20 CE Certificate (BBS, BRN; NHAP and RCFE, 6 hours applied for). Continental Breakfast and Lunch Provided.
Presenters Nancy Gordon and Donald Koepke created this workshop to assist all those who create programs for older adults in senior centers, residential settings, congregations and long-term care residences. Many times the problems we seek to address in programming such as helplessness, loneliness, and boredom are spiritual problem and yet we often don't think about spiritual resources or practices when creating programs for those we serve. Nancy and Don believe that looking programming through a spiritual lens will help all those who seek to create and provide programming for older adults that goes beyond entertainment and "keeping them busy."
Objectives of Course
As a result of this course participants will take home a simple, practical and accessible definition of spirituality that allows participants to:
About the Presenters
Nancy Gordon has served as director of CLH and Sunny View Centers for Spirituality and Aging since 2008. From 1998-2007 she was director of Growth Opportunities at Friendship Village of Schaumburg, IL, a large continuing care retirement community. The Growth Opportunities program she developed contained spiritual life, activity/recreation, arts, fitness, and life-long learning components. It was her charge to put a spiritual foundation under all the programs, believing that each of them had the potential to touch residents' spirits in positive ways. Before entering the world of serving older adults she worked in historical agencies and libraries, attended seminary in mid-life, became an ordained pastor and served as an associate pastor in a congregation in Illinois.
Donald Koepke is director emeritus of the CLH Center for Spirituality and Aging, having served as its director from 1999-2008. Rev. Koepke has been a Lutheran pastor for more than 30 years serving three congregations in three states. Rev. Koepke has presented many workshops on spirituality and aging for both staff of long-term care facilities and churches throughout the country. As a retirement community chaplain, Rev. Koepke created annual week-long "Celebration of Life" events that engaged residents in many domains of life-including the spiritual.