Reservoir or canal: Spiritual retreats for chaplains caring for people with dementia
This research outlines and evaluates a pilot study weekend retreat to refresh Australian Aged Care chaplains (September 2022). The retreat theme of “Living Water” had four movements: “Water Cleansing the Soul”, “A-thirst for God”, Water Refreshing the Soul” and “The Well-watered Garden.” Activities...
| Published in: | Journal of religion, spirituality & aging |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2024
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| In: |
Journal of religion, spirituality & aging
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| Further subjects: | B
spiritual refreshment
B Chaplain B Evelyn Underhill B Spiritual retreat B Dementia |
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| Summary: | This research outlines and evaluates a pilot study weekend retreat to refresh Australian Aged Care chaplains (September 2022). The retreat theme of “Living Water” had four movements: “Water Cleansing the Soul”, “A-thirst for God”, Water Refreshing the Soul” and “The Well-watered Garden.” Activities included ”lectio divina”, Ignatian meditation, painting, prayer-walks and corporate worship. Participants were interviewed pre-retreat and provided written evaluations afterwards. Bernard of Clairvaux provides the guiding metaphor for this research. He argues that we need to be ”reservoirs”, large bodies of water, outpouring from places of plenty, rather than narrow ”canals”. The theoretical undergirding for this research came from the writings of Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), a research Conductor in England in the 1920s and 30s. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-8049 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, spirituality & aging
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2178594 |