Transcript Slides - Continuing the journey

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Lost in translation?
Bill Bazely
UKBHC Registered Chaplain
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translation
trans·la·tion (tr ns-l sh n, tr nz-)
n.
1 a. The act or process of translating, especially from
one language into another.
b. The state of being translated.
2. A translated version of a text.
3. Physics Motion of a body in which every point of the
body moves parallel to and the same distance as every
other point of the body.
4. Biology The process by which messenger RNA
directs the amino acid sequence of a growing
polypeptide during protein synthesis.
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The Place I Want to Get Back To
is where
in the pinewoods
in the moments between
the darkness
and first light
two deer
came walking down the hill
and when they saw me
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they said to each other, okay,
this one is okay,
let’s see who she is
and why she is sitting
On the ground, like that,
so quiet, as if
asleep, or in a dream,
but, anyway, harmless;
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and so they came
on their slender legs
and gazed upon me
not unlike the way
I go out to the dunes and look
and look and look
into the faces of the flowers;
and then one of them leaned forward
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and nuzzled my hand, and what can my life
bring to me that could exceed
that brief moment?
For twenty years
I have gone every day to the same woods,
not waiting, exactly, just lingering.
Such gifts, bestowed,
can’t be repeated.
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If you want to talk about this
come to visit. I live in the house
near the corner, which I have named
Gratitude.
Mary Oliver Thirst
2007
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What will you be taking back from this place
to your place, today?
Though we might like to linger
we have to go.
How will you translate
what you have found here
into your life,
your relationships, your practice?
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How do we manage
Gift and Loss?
How do we move from
Spiritual Desolation
to Spiritual Consolation?
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An unexpected encounter with
gift and loss
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An unexpected encounter with
gift and loss
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An unexpected encounter with
gift and loss
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An unexpected encounter with
gift and loss
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What do chaplains do?
The Core Task:
Seeking people who need them
Identifying the nature of the need
Responding to the need through
theological and spiritual praxis
Mowat & Swinton, What do Chaplains do?, 2005
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What do I do?
I seek to be a person,
recognising others as people
and supporting them in being human
beings.
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Guidelines on
spirituality for staff
in acute care
services.
2008
www.virtualward.org.uk
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Spirituality and Identity, from Guidelines on Spirituality for
staff in acute care services – CSIP 2008
www.virtualward.org.uk
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NHS Modernisation Agency 2005 - Good care planning for
people with long-term conditions
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Spirituality and Identity, from Guidelines on Spirituality for
staff in acute care services – CSIP 2008
www.virtualward.org.uk
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One definition of spirituality …
Lartey proposes that spirituality
has five dimensions, which must
be understood as belonging
together in an integrated whole.
Lartey, E.Y. (1996), In Living Colour, London, Cassell
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One definition of spirituality …
built on relationship
Transcendence
Place and Things
Among people
Self
Another
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Spiritual Care Matters
Copies of this document
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February 2009
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New Horizons: working
together for better
mental health
Good mental health is
important to us all. The cost
of mental ill health touches
us all every day, whether
we are aware of it or not,
and the effects on sufferers
and their families can be
devastating.
2010
http://www.newhorizons.dh
.gov.uk/index.aspx
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The Fist
There are days
when the sun goes down
like a fist,
though of course
if you see anything
in the heavens
in this way
you had better get
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your eyes checked
or, better still,
your diminished spirit.
The heavens
have no fist,
or wouldn’t they have been
shaking it
for a thousand years now,
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and even
longer than that,
at the dull, brutish
ways of mankind heaven’s own
creation?
Instead: such patience!
Such willingness
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to let us continue!
To hear,
little by little,
the voices only, so far, in
pockets of the world suggesting
the possibilities
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of peace?
Keep looking.
Behold, how the fist opens
with invitation.
Mary Oliver Thirst
2007
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Lost in translation?
Keep listening to those voices
Keep looking –
in awe and wonder
Keep on Journeying