With Spring just around the corner for those of us in the northern hemisphere--and Fall for those in the southern--April is a great month for connecting with colleagues around the country for continuing education opportunities. Whether you log in from your neighborhood coffee shop, your office, or the beach on Spring break, connect with others for a peer learning experience around pastoral care, ethics, counseling, or ministry in these changing times. From April 12-30, 2010, the Oates Institute is offering a wide selection of lifelong learning for ministry opportunities that you may participate in according to your schedule from anywhere you have Internet access.
Registration is now open for the April online seminars. Seven seminars will be offered, each beginning on Monday, April 12, and continuing through Friday, April 30. The seminars will offer presented resources, which may be read or viewed at your convenience, and peer group conversation reflecting on these resources and providing the opportunity to learn from each other, also according to your schedule.
The seminars are:
- Encountering Depression and Anxiety in Ministry
- Finding Hope When There Is No Cure
- Healing Power of Forgiveness
- Human Values and Health Care
- Spiritual Assessment: It's a SNAP
- The Power to Bless
- When Religion Gets Sick
All of these seminars are three weeks in duration and utilize the Oates Institute's Connected Learning approach to provide participants with the benefits of interactive and reflective peer group learning. Registration for each of the seminars is limited to12 participants. Registration is free for Oates Institute members and only $60 per seminar for non-members.
Each of these seminars is approved for 12 contact hours of continuing education credit for chaplains, counselors, social workers, parish nurses, and pastors . The Oates Institute is an Approved Provider of continuing professional education with the National Board of Certified Counselors.
This year's recession has hurt almost everyone's continuing education budgets, and this time of cultural transition has made participating in lifelong learning especially important. So the Oates Institute is opening this year's opportunity to sign up for the Pastoral Care Group Membership to everyone. That means you can become a member of the Oates Institute and register for our online seminars free through 2010 for only $96 (a 20% discount). This special Group Membership was started for members of the Pastoral Care Yahoo Group at the beginning of 2001. As this group enters its tenth year of Oates Institute membership, we invite everyone to join with the members of this chaplains' discussion group to take advantage of the open registration period during November and December to become members of the Institute for only $96 (WEOI membership is $120 per year throughout the rest of the year).The membership begins when you sign up and continues through December 31, 2010. But this group membership discount is only available during this two month open enrollment period and ends on January 11, 2010.
Is there a better time of year to think about doing continuing education online than January? It is a good time to settle in next to the fire and log in to connect with others around the country for a peer learning experience around pastoral care, professional ethics, counseling, or ministry in these changing times. From January 11-29, 2010, the Oates Institute is offering a wide selection of lifelong learning for ministry opportunities that you may participate in according to your schedule from anywhere you have Internet access; from home, neighborhood coffee shop, or office.
Registration is now open for the January online seminars. Nine seminars will be offered, each beginning on Monday, January 11 and continuing through Friday, January 29. The seminars will each offer presented resources, which may be read or viewed at your convenience, and peer group conversation reflecting on these resources and providing the opportunity to learn from each other, also according to your schedule.