Faith in Action

Department of Spiritual Care staff is available to speak at retreats, facilitate workshops and provide adult education programs for your congregation or community's specific needs.

For information or to discuss possible programs, please contact Dave Wendleton or Donna Oiland at 425.899.1046.

Presentation Topics

Facing Our Own Mortality

Living with the end in mind, personal attitudes about death, values and loss assessment exercises

Getting Things in Order

Living Wills, Advanced Directives, Funeral Arrangements, Organ and Tissue Donation

"Caring Conversations"

A series on how to have difficult conversations around end-of-life issues.

Creating Legacy

Remembering your stories and capturing them for future generations.

Ethical Wills

Who am I? What do I value? What people have influenced my life? How will I be remembered?

Life Review

How to create an enduring memoir, fashioning a multi-media autobiography.

Caring for the Caregiver

Boundaries, self care, being comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Grief and Loss, Loss as Loss

Spirituality in Caregiving

Hospice 101

What does it mean? "I came to die and I learned to live."

Approaching Death

What does it look like? How can we be prepared, Anticipated grief.

How to Talk to Someone Who is Dying

Art of Communication

Discover the impact that finding and understanding your own story has on your ability to be an engaged, active listener for the people for whom you have been the opportunity to care.

The Sandwich Generation

What do they need in their lunchbox?

The Healing Power of Humor

"On Our Own Terms"

Four-part video series from PBS produced by Bill Moyers on Death in America. Includes discussion guide.