1 week ago (6.12.2025), Transforming Chaplaincy hosted the inaugural Healthcare #Chaplaincy - State of the Science in Bloom., MN, USA. Working with & learning from those in the photo has produced some high grade joy. #research
www.transformchaplaincy.org
(photo credit: cassieregerphotography.com)

Cheers🥂! Celebrating after the first ever Healthcare #Chaplaincy - State of the Science hosted in conjunction with the Assn of Professional Chaplains annual (2025) conference in Bloomington, MN, USA. I ♥️d being a part of this www.transformchaplaincy.org event and to see my #chaplain colleagues ☀️!

My 2 fav moments in #palliative & #spiritual care #research: 1) Published; 2) Dreaming about possibilities. Great to be with you, @danielnuzum.bsky.social, to consider what could await while watching a ⚽ match on the pitch. Looking forward to some green grass & blue sky investigations together.

I know. It's in the name, but the org I work for, Transforming #Chaplaincy, is not only about #chaplains. #Spiritual care is Our business, including how what We do having a #sacred moment reality. Check out this webinar featuring Drs. Sanjay Saint and Ken Pargament.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=emrR...

Once upon this 🕑, the #Palliative Story Exchange incubator workshop, March 20-21, was a positively disruptive turning point in my emplotted future. It generated some uncontained ♥️ #joy. Thank you Alexis Drutchas, @releiter.bsky.social, & Rachel Rusch! ✅ out this movement.
www.pallstoryexchange.com

Spiritual Care & Ritual: Research & Competencies
👇Webinar recording ➡️ Transforming Chaplaincy. We're about advancing #spiritual care ➡️ #research.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjXI...
Ritual is an important but often overlooked element of spiritual care in healthcare.
✅us out www.transformchaplaincy.org

I'm exhausted but renewed and inspired by these relationships. So grateful for the #hapc25 "team" making a difference for those w/serious illness. #palliative care. Thank you!
@christinap3.bsky.social, @ryanbaldeo.bsky.social, @nvrflycoach.bsky.social, @aahpm.bsky.social, @hpna-info.bsky.social

It was like I was the next contestant on the Price Is Right to join my friends, #palliative care colleagues as part of the Cambia Leadership Brkfst, #hapc25 annual assembly, Denver ⛰️. Joy ascension!
@rthienprayoon.bsky.social, Anao Zhang, Barbara Jones, Peggy Maguire, Tamryn Gray, Channing Tate

Over 20 chaplains at the #hapc25 annual assembly. Posters, podiums, and conversations to show up for our shared work of caring for people with serious illness. Looking forward to our engagement during this meeting and planning toward the future with our collaborative efforts. #spiritual care

Yellow highlighter moment to see friends, Emory PhD student, Alex Soltoff, & Cambia Sojourns Scholar, Penn Nursing faculty, Jackie Boyden, PhD.
✅ out Alex’s talk at the #hapc25 Assembly, Financial and Clinical Impact of Investor-backed #Hospice Acquisitions, on Thursday, February 6, 11-11:15 AM

I noticed the phrase, "dangerous unselfishness," from Dr. King's final speech engraved in stone when I recently (Nov 2024) ambled through the I AM A MAN Plaza in Memphis. Blessings for strength to love with dangerous unselfishness as we care for each person's well-being.
(photo credit: Galchutt)

Care for people amid serious illness? Our ❓ is an invitation toward your calling for our shared interprofessional #spiritual care. You do it. Join us as a champion 🏆.
👏, Dr. Betty Ferrell.
Is It in You?… (to be a Spiritual Care Champion) 👇
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
#palliative #chaplain

Still working thru imposter feelings 2 B on author team w/Dr. Betty Ferrell (middle), Tami Borneman (R), & Marianna Koczywas (not 📷).
#Spirituality in Pts With #Cancer: A Synthesis of a Program of #Research 👇.
✅ out the 🗝️ #spiritual concerns & methods used.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...