Heroic Self-Care: Impact Your Life - A Restorative Saturday Retreat for Veterans and VSOs
Dec
7
8:30 AM08:30

Heroic Self-Care: Impact Your Life - A Restorative Saturday Retreat for Veterans and VSOs

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Join us for a day of self-care, introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work within your organizations and for those you serve.

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Interfaith Spiritual Care Coalition Training
Nov
16
9:00 AM09:00

Interfaith Spiritual Care Coalition Training

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The ISCC is an alliance of faith communities and nonprofits that serve individuals lacking formalized spiritual care resources, including those who are homebound or in healthcare facilities. Through recruitment, certified training, and collaboration with healthcare agencies, this program trains and empowers spiritual care volunteers to serve the healthcare community.

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Faith & Diabetes Facilitator Training
Oct
15
5:30 PM17:30

Faith & Diabetes Facilitator Training

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Join this invaluable 7-week program aimed at empowering participants to start and manage diabetes self-care and prevention programs in their communities. Learn from experts and collaborative sessions to address important issues in diabetes care and management, and to create innovative health and wellness strategies for the future.

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Heroic Self-Care: A Veteran's Retreat for Connection and Healing
Sep
28
8:00 AM08:00

Heroic Self-Care: A Veteran's Retreat for Connection and Healing

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Join us for a day of self-care, introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work within your organizations and for those you serve.

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Pathways to Healing: A Journey of Mind-Body Wellness
Sep
17
to Oct 22

Pathways to Healing: A Journey of Mind-Body Wellness

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Experience our "Pathways to Healing: A Journey of Mind-Body Wellness" program presented by the Greater Houston Healing Collaborative (GHHC). Over six weeks, expert practitioners will guide you through meditation, breath work, sound healing, essential oils, herbs, and EFT/Tapping to promote inner peace and overall well-being.

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Interfaith Spiritual Care Coalition Training
Aug
24
9:00 AM09:00

Interfaith Spiritual Care Coalition Training

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The ISCC is an alliance of faith communities and nonprofits that serve individuals lacking formalized spiritual care resources, including those who are homebound or in healthcare facilities. Through recruitment, certified training, and collaboration with healthcare agencies, this program trains and empowers spiritual care volunteers to serve the healthcare community.

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Interfaith Spiritual Care Coalition Training
Aug
24
9:00 AM09:00

Interfaith Spiritual Care Coalition Training

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The ISCC is an alliance of faith communities and nonprofits that serve individuals lacking formalized spiritual care resources, including those who are homebound or in healthcare facilities. Through recruitment, certified training, and collaboration with healthcare agencies, this program trains and empowers spiritual care volunteers to serve the healthcare community.

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6 Life-Changing Lessons from the Life Review: The Most Powerful Aspect of the Near-Death-Experience
Jul
16
6:30 PM18:30

6 Life-Changing Lessons from the Life Review: The Most Powerful Aspect of the Near-Death-Experience

Join us for our Houston IANDS July meeting featuring author Jeff Janssen, who will share insights into the profound impact of your life through a life-changing presentation on what Near-Death Experiencers call the Life Review. Discover how your choices, words, and actions affect others by understanding the experiences of thousands who faced death and saw their lives flash before their eyes.

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Heroic Self-Care: Impact Your Life - A Restorative Saturday Retreat for Veterans, Veteran Caregivers, and VSOs
Jun
29
8:30 AM08:30

Heroic Self-Care: Impact Your Life - A Restorative Saturday Retreat for Veterans, Veteran Caregivers, and VSOs

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Join us for a day of self-care, introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work within your organizations and for those you serve.

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Diabetes Self-Management Series
Jun
1
11:30 AM11:30

Diabetes Self-Management Series

The Diabetes Self-Management Series addresses diabetes and cardiovascular health awareness, prevention, and management with special attention to the mind and body. The Institute uses evidence-based self-management principles to engage people with diabetes to take ownership of this chronic disease. Promote better communication with your healthcare team and use weekly action plans to motivate long-term behavioral changes. Registration is required.

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Faith & Diabetes DSMES
Apr
27
10:30 AM10:30

Faith & Diabetes DSMES

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The Institute is holding its first DSMES class to provide diabetes self-management and prevention education to vulnerable individuals. Our evidence-based curriculum developed by Gateway Laredo FQHC aims to teach participants about diabetes, improve glucose control, facilitate better communication with healthcare teams, and connect them with a medical home.

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A Still Small Voice - Movie Screening
Apr
11
4:15 PM16:15

A Still Small Voice - Movie Screening

Join us for a screening and panel discussion of the award-winning documentary "A Still Small Voice." The video follows a chaplain completing a year-long residency and explores themes such as the power of presence and sources of professional burnout and resilience. The film aired in select U.S. theaters but not in Houston, making this a unique opportunity for local audiences to view and discuss it.

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Heroic Self-Care: Impact Your Life - A Restorative Saturday Retreat for Veterans, Veteran Caregivers, and VSOs
Apr
6
8:30 AM08:30

Heroic Self-Care: Impact Your Life - A Restorative Saturday Retreat for Veterans, Veteran Caregivers, and VSOs

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Join us for a day of self-care, introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work within your organizations and for those you serve.

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The Collective Soul Symposium
Mar
1
to Mar 2

The Collective Soul Symposium

Spirituality and religiosity are recognized as factors that contribute to quality of life and coping strategies in many persons facing life-threatening illnesses. These life-threatening events can also give rise to spiritual distress. The purpose of this symposium is to provide a better understanding of the Palliative Care Team’s role in enhancing the Human spirit and relieving patient’s bio-psychosocial and spiritual suffering.

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Mind Body Medicine Masterclass: Deepening your Practice with Journaling and Imagery
Dec
8
11:00 AM11:00

Mind Body Medicine Masterclass: Deepening your Practice with Journaling and Imagery

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Join us, along with our speaker Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye, as we embark on a spiritual journey of deepened self-awareness through guided meditation, imagery, and writing. Our time together will include heart-centered practices such as prayer (intentionality), movement, and song, all with the intention of tapping into a power greater than ourselves, and bring forth the wisdom within.

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Silent Nights: Grief, Stress, and Coping During the Holidays
Dec
7
6:00 PM18:00

Silent Nights: Grief, Stress, and Coping During the Holidays

The holidays are always a time to come together, and also a time when grief and loss are felt most deeply. Now in it’s 10th year, this annual program offers a safe space to hear and share stories of grief and know that you are not alone. We will hear from members of ISH’s bereavement group, engage in a guided journaling meditation experience, and listen to the healing sounds of crystal bowls.

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Heroic Self-Care: Impact Your Life - A Restorative Saturday Retreat for Veterans and VSOs - Fall 2023
Oct
14
8:30 AM08:30

Heroic Self-Care: Impact Your Life - A Restorative Saturday Retreat for Veterans and VSOs - Fall 2023

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Join us for a day of self-care introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work, within your organizations and for those you serve.

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31st Annual Nursing Conference
Oct
13
7:30 AM07:30

31st Annual Nursing Conference

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For 31 years, the Institute for Spirituality and Health has joined a host of collaborating organizations at the forefront of the exploration of the intersection of the nursing professions, spirituality, health, and healing. This year's conference focuses on the end of life, a time when the relationship between spirituality and health is often most apparent.

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 Bridging Neurobiological and Buddhist Views on Craving, Addiction, and Recovery
Jul
15
to Jul 22

Bridging Neurobiological and Buddhist Views on Craving, Addiction, and Recovery

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Please join Dr. Deana Bodnar - a Ph.D. in Neurobiology, practicing Buddhist, and steadfast recovery advocate for this two-part virtual seminar where we will explore craving, addition, and recovery by putting contemporary neuroscientific understandings in conversation with Buddhist beliefs and practices. We invite professionals who work in the field of addition and recovery who want to expand their understanding of these dynamics, as well as individuals who are in recovery and who can benefit from perspectives and practices that address the challenges of craving and addition, and anyone else interested in these subjects, to join us.

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