Full title: Refuge in the Storm Webinar Series, Part III: Caring for Crisis Workers- Buddhist Approaches to Stress Management and Self-Care
This webinar is the third in a series offered by the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School and featured a panel discussion of contributors to part III of Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care, edited by Nathan Jishin Michon. The panel included Shushin R.A. Peterson, Alex Baskin, and Acala Xiaoxi Wang, and was be co-moderated by Rev. Dr. Nathan Jishin Michon and Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford.
Bios:
Shushin R.A. Peterson
Rev. R. A. Shushin Peterson, MDiv, BCC-HPC, is a priest in the Soto Shu tradition of Zen Buddhism. After spending nearly a decade in China and Taiwan, he served as an active duty Hospital Corpsman and Buddhist Lay Leader in the United States Navy, before attending seminary and receiving ordination through the Iwoji Temple lineage, Shinshiro, Japan. He now serves as the spiritual and bereavement care coordinator for hospice and long-term geriatric care at the VA Loma Linda Medical Center, and congregational priest at Sozenji Buddhist Temple, Montebello, CA.
Alex Baskin
Alex Baskin works as a full-time staff chaplain at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, serving mainly cardiac intensive care and organ transplant units. In 2022, he completed his MDiv at Harvard Divinity School, where his thesis focused on play/playfulness in Buddhism. While at HDS, Alex provided research assistance for the multi-institution “Mapping Buddhist Chaplains” project. He holds a BA in philosophy from Tufts, and served for years as a teaching assistant with a Buddhist studies program in Bodh Gaya, India. He has lived and worked at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA and at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. Currently, Alex leads a local young-adult meditation community. He is a certified leader of the body wisdom modality InterPlay, and he also writes poetry, with works appearing in some small-press literary journals.
Acala Xiaoxi Wang
Rev. Acala is an ACPE Certified Educator Candidate and a Buddhist practitioner of the Thai Forest tradition. She serves for spiritual care education programs at New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, as well as for Chinese chaplaincy trainings from abroad, both since 2021. Acala received her lay Buddhist minister initiation in 2015. Her ministery is endorsed by Mid-America Buddhist Association. Acala has a Master of Divinity in Buddhist Chaplaincy from University of the West. She had her Clinical Pastoral Education Residency with Stanford Health Care and served as an interfaith chaplain there afterwards. Acala’s ministry experiences also include serviced as a Buddhist chaplain for Calipatria State Prison, and a Dharma teacher for Dharma Seal Temple.
Monica Sanford
Monica Sanford joined Harvard Divinity School as assistant dean for multireligious ministry in September 2021. Sanford comes to HDS from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she became one of only two Buddhists in North America to lead a multireligious life department at a college or university. Sanford is one of the first full-trained Buddhist practical theologians in the United States, having earned her PhD in practical theology from Claremont School of Theology. Sanford also holds an undergraduate degree in design from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master of divinity degree from University of the West. Sanford is an ordained Buddhist lay minister in a Chan lineage and trained as a Buddhist chaplain. Her recent book, Kalyāṇamitra: A Buddhist Model for Spiritual Care (January 2021), is the first textbook for Buddhist chaplains.
Nathan Jishin Michon
Nathan Jishin Michon is a JSPS visiting scholar focused on Buddhist chaplaincy at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. Jishin is editor of Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care and A Thousand Hands: Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Community, among other works. Jishin especially focuses their research on Japanese Buddhist chaplaincy, chaplain training, and contemplative forms of care. They previously helped in disaster relief and hospice care.
This event took place on February 27, 2024.
For more information: hds.harvard.edu
Негізгі бет Refuge in the Storm Webinar Series, Part III: Caring for Crisis Workers
Пікірлер