Before Courtni Jeffers came to the University of New England (UNE) in Portland, Maine as an educator and doctoral candidate, she’s trailblazed an impressive career inspiring community health and wellbeing. Her heartfelt approach: Helping communities restore, build and channel their power.
One evening a week, Sarah Wittmeyer has been gathering with a group of women at Highland Avenue of the Brethren Church in Elgin, IL to share stories—of becoming, of growing into who they are, of weighing challenges, or just sharing a bit about themselves.
Meet some of your fellow Mindworks members doing incredible work in their communities and around the world. See how your community is actualizing narrative practice, helping heal and unite families, groups, patients and communities through the power of story.
A hospice chaplain/grief counselor and a pastor offer a first-hand and realistic depiction of death and dying
A Q & A with the Rev. Matt Holmes, who draws from two decades as a hospice chaplain, grief counselor, nurses’ aide, and emergency medical technician, and invites us to peer into the often-occulted dimensions of life’s endings. From bedsores to isolation to neglect to deep, desperate love, modern death’s characteristics are navigated here with insight, honesty, depth, and clarity. Following the sense of horror and humor evoked in each narrative are theopoetic and theological reflections from the Rev. Thomas R. Gaulke, PhD.
