2015
| August 18 – 21 | 12th International Family Nursing Conference, Odense, Denmark. 1. Illness Suffering and Family Healing: Raising your Clinical Effectiveness to the Next Level, Co-Presenting with Dr Janice M Bell, Pre-Conference Workshop,2. CFAM and CFIM: Reflections on the Reciprocity of Professional and Personal Application of Two Clinical Models over 30 Years, Co-Presenting with Dr Maureen Leahey, Podium Presentation.3. Calm The Amygdala And Other New Family Interventions: The Unexpected Connection To Brain Science For Softening Suffering. Solo Podium Presentation. |
| Nov 23 | Suffering, Spirituality and Illness: Clinical Ideas for Global Healing. World Congress on Nursing, Dubai, UAE |
| Nov 28 | Love and Challenging Constraining Beliefs: The Two Essential Keys for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Invited Workshop for University of Calgary, Faculty of Nursing-Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
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| Nov 29 | Therapeutic Conversations in Nursing Practice: What’s Love Got to Do With It? Invited Lecture for University of Calgary/Faculty of Nursing-Qatar, Doha, Qatar. |
2014
| March 20 | Don’t Get Married Unless: What’s the Connection to Good Health? Invited Keynote 40th Anniversary, College of Nursing & Health, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio |
| Practice Based Evidence in Nursing: What I have (only) learned in Clinical Practice with Families. Invited presentation for Research Conference, College of Nursing and Health, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
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| April 8 & 22 | Illness Beliefs: The Invisible Heart of Healing. Invited Webinars for Family Focused Course, Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
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| June 24-27 | Advanced Family Nursing Externship. Invited 4 day Externship by Institute of Nursing, Zurich University of Applied Science, Winterthur, Switzerland.
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| October 10 | Healing Families: What every nurses needs to know and do. Invited workshop for University Hospital, Pamplona, Spain.
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| November 24-5 | Caring for Families with Serious Illness: What are the Clinical Skills and Qualities that Every Nurse Needs to Know and Do? Invited Lectures for School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan. |
2013
| Feb 9 | Practice Based Evidence: Five Useful Practices Learned from Clinical Practice with Families. Invited lecture for Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan.
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| Feb 13 | Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Knowledge Learned from Research and Clinical Practice with Families. Invited lecture at Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Feb 16 | Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Knowledge Learned from Research and Clinical Practice with Families. Invited lecture at Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
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| Feb 18 | Who is the Family in Family Research?Invited lecture at Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
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| Feb 19 | Practice Based Evidence in Family Nursing: What I (Only) Learned from Clinical Practice. Invited lecture at Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
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| March 27 | How to Integrate Spirituality into an Oncology Practice. Invited lecture for Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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| Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: How to Care for Families? Invited lecture for Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary-Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
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| March 28 | Illness Beliefs: The Invisible Heart of Healing Families. Invited Distinguished Lecturer, University of Calgary-Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
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| April 4 & 18 | Illness Beliefs: The Invisible Heart of Healing. Invited Webinars for Family Focused Course, Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
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| June 19 | Unpacking the Illness Beliefs Model: What do we know from practice-based evidence about healing families? Invited Pre-Conference Workshop with Dr Janice Bell at 11th International Family Nursing Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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| June 19 | Integrating Spirituality into Family Nursing Practice: “Do I need to? Do I want to? What clinical skills would I need?” Invited Pre-Conference Workshop at 11th International Family Nursing Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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| Sept 23-27 | Advanced Family Nursing Externship. Invited 4 day Externship by University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark with Dr Janice Bell. |
2012
| January 29 | What are the Essential Skills/Knowledge for Healing Conversations with Families? Live Interview with Japanese Family. Invited lecture and demonstration interview for Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan.
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| January 31 | The 7 Skills and Qualities of Nurses who Heal Families Suffering withSerious Illness. Invited lecture for School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
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| February 1 | Generalist and Advanced Models for Family Centered Care: What Really Works? Invited lecture for School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
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| April 11 & 18 | Illness Beliefs: The Invisible Heart of Healing. Invited Webinars for Family Focused Course, Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
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| May 18 | The Illness Beliefs Model: Addressing Illness Suffering in Clinical Work with Families. Co-Presenation with Dr Janice M Bell at American Family Therapy Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA
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| May 30 | The Circle of Influence in Family Nursing: How Clinical Practice, Research, and Theory all Came Together. Invited lecture for Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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| June 4 | Therapeutic Conversations with Families: What Makes them “Therapeutic”? Workshop for University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
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| Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: 7 Clinical Practices for Healing Individuals and Families. Lecture for University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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| July 18 | Therapeutic Conversations with Families: What Makes them ‘Therapeutic’? Invited Lecture for School of Nursing, Porto, Portugal.
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| October 19 | Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Lessons Learned from Research, Clinical Families, and Living Life. Invited keynote address at Envision Conference sponsored by School of Nursing, Oakland University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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| November 1 | The Calgary Family Assessment Model: What are the common errors, pitfalls, and blunders when applying the model in clinical practice? Invited lecture at Health and Human Service, Camosun College, Victoria, BC |
2011
| January 10 | Interviewing an Individual to Gain a Family Perspective with Chronic Illness and One Question Question. Invited lectures for Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan.
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| January 21 | Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Conversations for Healing. Invited lecture for Faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
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| February 7 | Theory and Model Development in Family Systems Nursing: How Theory, Research and Clinical Practice are Best Friends. Invited Lecture for Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand.
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| February 12 | The Heart of Healing in Nursing Practice: Softening Illness Suffering. Invited lecture for Faculty of Nursing, Rambhai Barni Rajabhat University, Chantaburi, Thailand.
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| February 13 | Hot Tips to Move from Illness Suffering to Family Healing. Invited lecture for Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand.
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| February 17 | Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice: Which has the Greatest Influence in Family Nursing? Invited lecture for School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
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| Family Centered Care in Nursing Curriculum: What does Every Nursing Student Need to Know. Invited lecture for School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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| February 18 | Family Centered Care in Maternal-Child Nursing: The Application of Clinical Practice Models CFAM/CFIM. Invited lecture for School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
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| February 19 | Illness is a Family Affair: What Does Every Nurse Need to Know and Can Offer Families. Invited Keynote Address for Sigma Theta Tau, Taipei, Taiwan.
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| February 22 | What Every Family Wants Graduate Students to Know. Invited lecture for Graduate Students, School of Nursing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China.
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| February 23 | Why and How to Involve Families in our Nursing Practice? Invited lecture for School of Nursing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China.
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| February 25 | Beliefs and Illness: The Key to Family Healing. Invited lecture for School of Nursing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China.
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| May 11-14 | Family Nursing Externship. Invited 4 day Externship by Institute of Nursing, Zurich University of Applied Science, Winterthur, Switzerland.
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| May 18 | A Quiet Uprising: Illness is a Family Affair. Invited keynote address for Swiss Nursing Congress, Montreux, Switzerland.
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| June 9 | Illness Is a Family Affair: What does every Health Professional Need to Know? Invited lecture for Patient/Family Centered Care in the CCU Conference, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada |
| From Suffering to Hope: How do we help Patients/Families Move to a Healing Place? Invited workshop for Patient/Family Centered Care in the CCU Conference, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada
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| June 26 | Family Interviewing Skills: How to Integrate Skills into Various Settings & How to Move Beyond Basic Skills. Invited Main Session Presentation with M. Leahey and S. Harper-Jaques at 10th International Family Nursing Conference, Kyoto, Japan.
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| October 19-21 | Caring for Families Experiencing Serious Illness: What are the Skills and Qualities for Providing Competent and Compassionate Care? Invited Workshop for Pamplona, Spain
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| October 27 | Family Suffering in the Experience of Chronic Conditions. Invited Keynote Address at the 5th Annual Scientific Nursing Research Conference, (ICE), sponsored by University of Madeira, Madeira, Portugal
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| October 28 | From Pressure Ulcers to the Care of the Family: Constraints on Nurses’ Work. Invited Commentary at the 5th Annual Scientific Nursing Research Conference, (ICE), sponsored by University of Madeira, Madeira, Portugal. |
2010
| February 11 | Conversations for Family Healing and One Question Question. Invited lectures Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
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| March 3 | Why and How to Involve Families in Clinical Practice? Invited lecture for Graduate Students, Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
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| March 9 | From Suffering to Hope: How do we help patients/families move to a healing place? Invited lecture for Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary – Qatar
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| March 10 | Families, Family Nursing, and Nurses: How does Knowledge Transfer Occur to Improve Practice? Invited workshop for Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary – Qatar
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| March 11 | Family Nursing Practice Models: What do I need to know to give compassionate and competent care?Invited workshop for Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary – Qatar
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| May 3-7 | Family Nursing Externship, Level I, with Dr. Janice M. Bell and Dr. Lorraine M. Wright. 5 day workshop, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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| June 3 | Beliefs and Illness: A Compelling Connection. Invited keynote address for Advancing Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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| September 28 | Beliefs and Illness: A Compelling Connection for Healing, Invited lecture for School of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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| September 30 | Families, Family Nursing, and Nurses: How does knowledge transfer occur to improve practice? Invited presentation for International Symposium for Nurses and Families. Organized by School of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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| October 1 | From Suffering to Hope: How do we help patients/families move to a healing place?Invited presentation for International Symposium for Nurses and Families. Organized by School of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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| October 29 | From Suffering to Hope: How does it Happen? Invited presentation at College & Association of Respiratory Therapists, Calgary, AB, Canada |
2009
| January 9 | How to Enhance Family Systems Nursing in Japan: Hot Tips for Research, Practice, and Education. |
| How to Apply Family Systems Nursing into Practice: The Key Lies in Effective Knowledge Translation. | |
| Opening the Conversation in Palliative Care: Embracing Suffering to Promote Family Healing. Invited lectures for Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
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| January 12/13 | Why and How to Involve Families in Nursing Practice?: and What Family Care Practices Soften Illness Suffering. Invited workshops for Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong.
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| January 14 | 25 Years of Family Nursing Unit: Hot Tips for Success and Errors to Avoid. Invited Seminar for Caste Peak Hospital, Hong Kong.
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| January 20/21 | Why and How to Involve Families in Nursing Practice?; and What Spiritual Care Practices Soften Illness Suffering in Patients/Families? Invited two day workshop for Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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| February 4 | What Spiritual Care Practices Soften Illness Suffering with Patients/Families? Invited workshop for Department of Nursing, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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| February 9 | Qualitative Research: Hermeneutic Philosophy and Research. Invited workshop for Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
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| March 9 | The Family as the Unit of Care. Invited lectures at University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain.
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| April 2 | Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: Ideas for Healing and Intervention. Invited keynote at “Fabry Disease and the Family”, Replagal Nurse Education Day at Port Credit, Ontario, Canada
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| June 1 | Softening Illness Suffering of Families: What Spiritual Care Practices Made a Difference? Invited Pre-Conference Workshop at 9th International Family Nursing Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.
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| June 2 | Illness Beliefs Model for Healing Families: Revised and Refreshed. Invited workshop for 9th International Family Nursing Conference. Reykjavik, Iceland. (Presented with Dr Janice M Bell).
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| Sept 19 | Illness, Suffering, and Spirituality: What can Patients/Families Learn from this Connection? Canadian Fabry Association – National Patient Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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| Oct 19/20 | Models for Interventions; Circles of Influence in Family Nursing: What do we know for sure?; (Re)Embracing Suffering: One path for spiritual and emotional healing from illness Workshop and lectures for Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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| Nov 4-6 | Family Nursing Externship with Dr Janice M. Bell. Invited 3 day workshop for First Forum of Taylor Family and Society Institute, Faculty of Nursing, Mankato, Minnesota.
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| Nov 13 | From Suffering to Hope: How do we help patients/families move to a healing place? Invited keynote for Canadian Network for Asthma Care, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
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| Nov 19/20 | Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: What Practices Invite Individual and Family Healing? Invited two day workshop for Faculty of Social Work Professional Development, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. |
2008
| Feb 12 | Articulating Spirituality. Invited workshop for Chronic Disease Management, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta (Presented with Dr Carruthers; Dr Toews; and Rev. Bob Glasgow).
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| March 11 | Family Nursing Interventions: Which ones are useful and effective? Invited workshop for Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland and Landspítali Hospital, Reykavik, Iceland
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| March 13 | What Happened to Suffering and Spirituality in Nursing Practice?: Some thoughts on Reclaiming and (Re)Embracing. Invited workshop for Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland And Landspítali Hospital, Reykavik, Iceland.
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| April 9 | Spirituality, Suffering, and Beliefs: The Soul of Clinical Practice. Invited keynote address for Geriatric Mental Health Institute Annual Conference, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
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| April 10 | Hot Tips for Including Families of Older Adults in Your Everyday Practice. Invited plenary session for Geriatric Mental Health Institute Annual Conference, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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| May 8 | Seven Spiritual Care Practices to Soften Illness Suffering: Lessons Learned from Clinical Practice, Research, and Living Life. Workshop session for Spirituality: The Invisible Ingredient in Health and Healing Conference sponsored by Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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| May 12 | Family Nursing Interventions: What is effective, useful, and healing? Invited workshop for Faculty of Nursing, Porto University, Porto, Portugal.
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| May 16 | Spirituality, Suffering, and Illness: A New Trinity for Nursing Practice. Invited workshop for doctoral students and faculty at University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
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| May 17 | Family Assessment and Intervention: Why, When, and How? Invited lecture for doctoral students and faculty at University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
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| May 29 | The Circle of Influence in Family Nursing: How Clinical Practice, Research, and Theory all Came Together. Invited presentation for Faculty of Nursing, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
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| July 4 | In Sickness and In Health. Workshop session for Smart Marriages Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, USA (with Dr Janice M. Bell).
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| Sept 26 | Softening Suffering in Oncology and Palliative Care: What Spiritual Care Practices Make a Difference? Invited keynote address at Oncolgy/Haematology Nurses Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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| Sept 27 | 10 Hot Tips for Involving Families in Clinical Nursing Practice: What works? What doesn’t? Invited keynote address at Oncolgy/Haematology Nurses Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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| Sept 29 | Seven Spiritual Care Practices to Soften Cancer Suffering. Invited lecture for Tauranga Cancer Centre/Hospice, Tauranga, New Zealand.
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| Oct 2 | Families and Health Professionals Views of Illness: How Different are they? Invited workshop for Gynaecological Cancer Workshop, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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| Oct 22-24 | Wright, L.M. & Bell, J.M. Illness Beliefs and Trinity Models for Advanced Practice, Family Systems Nursing Externship. Invited by Webster University, Department of Nursing, St Louis, Missouri, USA |
2007
| January 20 | Illness Beliefs, Suffering, and Spirituality: Ideas for Helping and Healing Families. Invited keynote address at Serono Canada’s Fifth Annual National Nurses Meeting, Montreal, Canada
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| June 4 | One Idea for Healing Families and Communities: Soften Suffering through Spiritual Practices. Invited keynote address at 8th International Family Nursing Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
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| September | Spirituality, Health, and Illness: What can we do to Soften Suffering? Invited 3 day conference at Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
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| October 30 | (Re) Embracing Suffering: One Path for Spiritual Healing. Invited Keynote at International Conference on Chronic Disease Management, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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| What Spiritual Care Practices Soften Suffering? Lessons Learned from Research, Clinical Practice, and Living Life. Invited Workshop at International Conference on Chronic Disease Management, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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| November 23 | Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models: Hot Tips for Teaching and Implementing in Clinical Practice, Red River College, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (with Dr Maureen Leahey)
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| December 7 | Spiritual Care in Clinical Practice, Workshop for Chronic Disease Management, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Canada (with Dr John Towes and Rev Bob Glasgow)
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Families, Beliefs, and Healing: Innovations in Assessment and Intervention Externship. Invited by the Toronto Academic Health Science Network, Toronto, Canada (Presented with Dr Janice M Bell). |
2006
| September 11-13 | Family Counseling: Clinical Skills that Make a Difference. Invited 3 day workshop at Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand.
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| October 10 | Beliefs, Suffering, and Spirituality: The Invisible Trinity in Illness, Health, and Healing. Invited Lecture at University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
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| October 16 | Therapeutic Conversations and Questions: The Core of Family Nursing. Invited keynote at Scientific Investigation in Nursing Conference, Madeira, Portugal.
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| October 17 | Illness Beliefs Model: Lessons Learned from Clinical Practice and Research. Invited workshop at Family Centered Conference, Madeira, Portugal
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| October 26 | Beliefs, Suffering, and Spirituality: The Invisible Trinity in Health and Healing; Exploring Health and Healing, Calgary Health Region, Banff, Canada
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| November 10 | Spirituality, suffering, and illness; Ideas for healing. 4th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Spirituality and Health: Interweaving Science, Wisdom and Compassion, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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| November 15 | Hot Tips for Including Families in your Everyday Practice. Invited lecture at Landspítali Hospital, Reykavik, Iceland
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| November 23-24 | Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models: How to Make a Difference in Clinical Practice. Invited workshop at Landspítali Hospital, Reykavik, Iceland
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| December 4 | Spirituality, Suffering, and Beliefs: The Soul of Clinical Practice. Invited workshop at the Chronic Disease Management Spirituality, Health, and Illness Workshop Series, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Canada |