Spiritual Care Book Group
The Spiritual Care Book Club is a group of Unitarian Universalists and their friends who will meet on a monthly basis to discuss books with a spiritual care focus. The meetings will take place in January, February, March, April, and May. The meetings will be on the fourth Thursday from 7 pm EST to 8 pm EST.
This Book Club will be certain to encourage you as we start the year together by learning, growing, and deepening our spiritual selves. Come and join us!
All are welcome. Registration will be limited to the first 20 people who sign up for the Book Club, and participants are responsible for acquiring the books to be read by the group. The fee will be $50 per person. There will be no refunds after the first meeting of the Book Club.
When:
Five sessions on the fourth Thursday of January, February, March, April, and May from 7 pm EST to 8 pm EST.
Check the CLF Calendar for upcoming meeting times.
Where: Online
Tuition: $50
Facilitator: Rev. Marcia Marino, D.Min, BCC
Bio for Rev. Marcia Marino:
Chaplain Marcia Marino, BCC (Board Certified Chaplain), D.Min., is a minister affiliated with the Church of the Larger Fellowship. She has taught spiritual care classes for CLF interns and for UU Religious Educators. Marcia has 25 years of experience as a chaplain and chaplain administrator, and has served as an Interim Minister in UU congregations in Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and New Jersey. Her most recent ministry as a chaplain was as the Regional Director of Pastoral Care for Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, WI. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Professional Chaplains. Marcia lives in Franklin, WI with her partner Rev. Linda Berez and their rescued cockatiel DeeDee who enjoys sitting on their shoes, laps, and shoulders. Marcia’s self-care and resilience plans include time with family and friends, membership in a Writers’ Critique Group, and passionate cheering for NCAA college basketball teams and her somewhat forlorn Milwaukee Brewers.
Registration has closed.
The topics and books to be discussed will be:
January 28: Happiness Rubin, Gretchen. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, And Generally Have More Fun New York: Harper Collins, 2009.
February 25: Resilience Karen Revich and Andrew Shatte’ The Resilience Factor: Seven Essential Skills for Overcoming Life’s Inevitable Obstacles. New York: Broadway Books/Random House, 2002.
March 24: Forgiveness Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu. The Book of Forgiving: The Four-Fold Path of Healing Ourselves and Our World New York: HarperCollins, 2014.
April 28: Grief/Death Forrest Church. Love and Death: My Journey thru the Valley of the Shadow Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
May 26: Mindfulness Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life New York: Hyperion 1994.