Homebound Warrior Soul Care Training Event Sept. 9th & 10th at UCC Yakima REGISTER HERE

Register online by clicking here, using only your name and email address to secure your ticket (should you choose to submit your registration disregarding requests for other information). The event is offered at no charge; tickets allow for efficient reproduction of resource materials and assurance of ample food–especially lunch on Saturday.

Friday, 9 Sep 2011

The Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D. — born in Fukuoka, Japan, is a Visiting Professor at the Starr King School for Ministry, Berkeley, California, and Director of Faith Voices for the Common Good and Co-Director of the Soul Repair Project. Her father, a veteran of WW II, was a U.S. Army enlisted man who served two tours in Vietnam as a medic. She was a college professor of religion for twenty years. From 1997 to 2001, she directed the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship Program, Harvard University. From 2001-2002, she was a Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School Center for Values in Public Life. Since 2002, she has been an independent scholar, in addition to her nonprofit volunteer work. She was a Convener of the Truth Commission on Conscience in War. She recently lead her Protestant denomination, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), to become the first Christian denomination to undertake, as a  resolution for the whole church, the ministry of moral injury and spiritual healing in a time of war.

1-3pm Religious Perspectives: Report of the Truth Commission on the Conscience in War

This presentation by Dr. Brock is designed for a gathering of religious leaders to address ethical perspectives on selective conscientious objection and the progress necessary for healing and preventing moral injuries during war.  The purpose is to help educate our communities about: 1) growing criteria governing the moral conduct of war; 2) the growing needs of veterans and their families, including the healing of moral injury; 3) the importance of maintaining commitment to moral conscience in war.

3:30-5pm Religious Practices: Christian Compassion and Veteran Soul Repair Centers

This presentation reviews historical Christianity’s outreach to warriors and the growing, contemporary need for similar healing and restoration processes offered to morally injured, post-9/11 warriors as they face the growing spiritual challenge of making restitution when they are brought back home to peace.

Saturday, 10 Sep 2011

Introducing Faith Action Network of Washington’s Veteran Support Network – working with faith communities around the state to expand support for veterans through a Veterans Support Network, offering training workshops for clergy and lay members about how they can offer services and programs that meet the needs of veterans.  The workshops, which are open to both clergy and laity, aim to educate people about military and veteran culture, clinical concerns, moral/spiritual issues, and local resources and veterans’ benefits. Resource people for this training include active duty, retired and reserve military personnel, as well as clinicians, outreach specialists, and chaplains. The trainings are ecumenical and inter-faith, and open to all who want to help support our Veterans through their faith community.

9am-10:15 Clinical Concerns and Moral Injury by FAN WA VSN Veteran Affairs representatives

10:30am-noon Developing Healing Communities

Lunch: Table Talk Discussions

1:15-3pm Joining Forces on Warrior Care  with Rev. Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock

Register online by clicking here, using only your name and email address to secure your ticket (should you choose to submit your registration disregarding requests for other information). The event is offered at no charge; tickets allow for efficient reproduction of resource materials and assurance of ample food–especially lunch on Saturday.