For twenty five years with counseling and ceremony, Harvard educated theologian Stephen Jenkinson has been guiding individuals, couples, families and communities through all the human sufferings, sorrows and confusions in life.
Formerly a programme director in a major Canadian hospital and assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school, now an educator and advocate in the helping professions, spiritual activist and ceremonial man Stephen Jenkinson consults to human service organizations and teaches across North America. He is revolutionizing the way dying and death are understood and practiced in North America.
Jenkinson, a leading Canadian palliative care educator, spiritual activist and author, is taking bookings for his 2010 teaching tour across Canada, the United States and Europe.
Stephen's Orphanwisdom: Griefwalking Teaching Tour distils a dozen years of his clinical counseling, writing, programme development and community education research and teachings. The tour is part critique, part affirmation of core principles, part plea for a community based, culturally informed response to what dying asks of us all. Stephen offers his teachings to professional caregivers in and outside of the medical context, volunteers and administrators, and especially for dying people and their families.
As part of this tour, he will present public screenings of Griefwalker a film by Tim Wilson produced by National Film Board of Canada. This is a feature length documentary and an extraordinary portrait of Stephen's work with dying people. It reveals the cultural and spiritual roots that continue to shape his ideas. http://nfb.ca/film/griefwalker-trailer/
“The Skill of Dying is the same skill as deep living.
I’m trying to teach dying people something of how to
love their dying life”
A N N O U N C E M E N T
The GRIEFWALKER DVD, Stephen's HOW IT ALL COULD BE companion book and his first live recorded teaching ANGEL and EXECUTIONER are now available for purchase: contact@orphanwisdom.com
Welcome to Orphanwisdom, the home of Stephen Jenkinson’s writing and teaching work. Orphanwisdom is a teaching house and a learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is a redemptive project that comes from where we come from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time not our own.
2010 Orphanwisdom Tour
To inquire about one of these events, to register or bring a workshop to your community: contact@orphanwisdom.com
B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A
2010 October 1st - 6th - 6 day teaching - (http://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/index.cfm?Group_ID=4487)
Homecoming: A Master Class in Living and Dying by Stephen Jenkinson
Hollyhock Retreat Centre - Cortes Island, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Homecoming: A Master Class in Living and Dying
The relentless pursuit of self-reliance and self-improvement in our culture is rooted in our lost connection to the common stories, homeland, and ancestors that bind and unite us. The times now ask that we begin to recognize the world’s suffering in our own. Learn how individuals, couples, families and communities cope with human suffering, sorrow and confusion, and what it might look like to live and die well. Use small group work, film study, individual consultation with the teacher, and guidance in prayer and ritual to gain a deeper capacity for personal grief, and for spiritual activism. As we learn to deal with brokenheartedness, we gain the tools to rebuild our communities. When we can see and recognize that life ends, we can be fully alive.
CALL: 800 933 6339 ext. 232 or 250 935 6576 (outside North America)
EMAIL: registration@hollyhock.ca
or WRITE to: Hollyhock, PO Box 127, Manson's Landing, Cortes Island, B.C. Canada V0P1K0
M A N I T O B A
2010 April 22-25
Annual Continuing Education Conference - Keynote Speech and Workshop by Stephen Jenkinson
Winnipeg, MANITOBA kmackinnon@mcfp.mb.ca
11:15-12:00-Keynote: Hopeless, Hopeful, Hopefree: What every GP could know about patient centered care and dying people
This keynote address will question some of the central tenets of the current care model governing the medical care of dying people and, using research on patient expectations of physicians, challenge the enduring belief in fostering an uncritically supportive, hope-based relationship in the terminal stage of palliative care.
13:45-14:30-Workshop: Dying Centered Care: What terminally ill people deserve from the health care system
This workshop will offer participants a model of palliative care which asks both caregivers and patients to pursue dying as the goal of care, and to grow an enduring expertise in dying and what it asks of us all.
19:00-22:00-Griefwalker screening and Q&A led by Stephen Jenkinson
N O V A S C O T I A
2010 November 5th
Tatamagouche Centre - RR3 Tatamagouche
public Griefwalker screening and Q&A led by Stephen Jenkinson
CALL: 1-800-218-2220
EMAIL: tatacent@tatacentre.ca
2010 November 6th and 7th
Tatamagouche Centre - RR3 Tatamagouche
weekend teaching "Griefwalking: The Soul of the Well Lived Life" by Stephen Jenkinson
CALL: 1-800-218-2220
EMAIL: tatacent@tatacentre.ca
O N T A R I O
2010 March 26th & 27 (all details will be confirmed soon)
Terrace Bay
public Griefwalker screening and Q&A led by Stephen Jenkinson
and
The Tangled Garden of Wisdom and Grief by Stephen Jenkinson
EMAIL: contact@orphanwisdom.com
Q U E B E C
2010 August (all details t.b.c.)
Montreal
International Association for Analytical Psychology Congress - HEALING IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD panel
EMAIL: contact@orphanwisdom.com
U. S. of A
2010 April (all details t.b.c.)
LANGLEY, Whidbey Island, WASHINGTON
Griefwalker screening and Q&A led by Stephen Jenkinson
and
The Tangled Garden of Wisdom and Grief by Stephen Jenkinson
EMAIL: contact@orphanwisdom.com
2010 May (all details t.b.c.)
MAUI
Griefwalker screening and Q&A led by Stephen Jenkinson
and
The Tangled Garden of Wisdom and Grief by Stephen Jenkinson
EMAIL: contact@orphanwisdom.com
2010 September (all details t.b.c.)
IDAHO
Griefwalker screening and Q&A led by Stephen Jenkinson at Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival
and
The Tangled Garden of Wisdom and Grief teaching by Stephen Jenkinson
EMAIL: contact@orphanwisdom.com
Bring Stephen's teachings to your community, contact@orphanwisdom.com
