Annual Gathering 2019
Well-being for All: Developing Resilience in Healthcare
Annual Gathering 2019
June 21-23, 2019
Laurelville Mennonite Church Center,
Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania
Theme
Well-being for All: Developing Resilience in Healthcare
Annual Gathering 2019
Additional resources and information.
Plenary presentations
Annual Gathering 2019
The following plenary presentations were held at Annual Gathering 2019.
Who is under your carbon footprint?
Dr. Sibonokuhle Ncube
The impact of climate change from the perspective of the global south.
Resilient Healthcare: A Matter of Trust
James Gingerich, MD
Maple City Health Care Center’s founding physician, James Nelson Gingerich, describes the radical, counter-intuitive, upside-down culture of trust that is at the heart of the center’s resilience and success as an experiment in affordable, high quality, integrated, community based health care for a low-income, multi-cultural, immigrant neighborhood.
- Powerpoint slides
- Slides in PDF
- Audio recording of presentation.
Well-being for All: Responding to the Opioid Epidemic
John Boll, DO, FAAFP
The United States is in a crisis of suffering regarding both chronic pain and addiction. This session focused on reframing this crisis of pain and addiction in terms relevant to biblical principles such that we can change the dialogue to one of hope.
- Handout
- Powerpoint slides
- Related article on palliative care
Addressing Moral Injury With Spiritual Strength
Clair Hochstetler, MDiv
Charlene Epp, MDiv
Susan Lanford, MDiv
This closing worship and plenary drew from research regarding moral injury and its mitigation.
Workshops
Annual Gathering 2019
Resilient Healthcare: A Matter of Trust
James Nelson Gingerich, MD
Follow-up workshop to Saturday morning plenary session.
An Introduction to Art Psychotherapy: Offering Healing and Hope Through the Creative Process
Carol Martin Johnson, MA
Art therapists use the creative process to engage the mind, body, and spirit in ways that are distinct from verbal therapy alone.
Naturopathic Medicine and Integrative Oncology
Michael Reece, ND
Naturopathic medicine blends centuries-old natural non-toxic therapies with current advances in the study of health and human systems, covering all aspects of family health. Naturopathic doctors trained in integrative cancer care provide evidence-informed guidance on safe and effective use of natural and supportive therapies, when combined with conventional treatment.
Plain Complexity: Serving the Old Order Amish and Mennonite Communities
Janelle M. Zimmerman, RN, BA
Presented by a nurse and former horse-and-buggy Mennonite, this workshop explored the complexity, rewards, and challenges of serving the Plain community.
Shifting Climates: Rehumanizing the Conversation About Faith, Hope, and Climate Change
Michaela Mast, Harrison Horst, Sarah Longenecker
The producers of the podcast, “Shifting Climates” shared about their experience.
Training Community Leaders on Maternal and Child Health Services
Rebekah Maldonado-Nofziger, BSN, RN, DNP
Report on a project in Ethiopia which paired Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) priests with Health Development Army (HDA) workers to prevent maternal death.
Healthcare, Healing, and the Mission of God: Transformation and Discipleship in our Professions
Grant Miller, MDiv
Paul Leichty, MDiv
Indigo Miller, RN, MPH
Presenters reflected on the role of healthcare in the reconciling work of God and how participating in that work forms us as disciples and transforms us into the image of Christ.
Worship
Angie & Jim Clemens
Angie and Jim Clemens led in worship which included a sneak preview of some of the music being incorporated into the new Voices Together hymnal coming in 2020.
Assisting them was Lucas Schrock-Hurst (“Lightning Lucas” who also gave a special presentation entitled Living Well with Bipolar Disorder: Songs and Stories with Lightning Lucas.
