Start time: 9:00am / End time: 6:00pm (each day)

Instructor: Richard Groves, Director of the Anamcara Project & Sr. Mary Assumpta, CSSP

THE SACRED ART
OF LIVING & DYING
Unit One: Understanding Spiritual Pain
CEU’S (14 credits)
with Richard Groves & Sr. Mary Assumpta, CSSP
Tuesday & Wednesday, February 2 & 3
9 am - 6 pm each day
Franciscan Renewal Center
“Understanding Spiritual Pain” is the first of 4
units in The Sacred Art of Living and Dying series
that will be hosted at the Franciscan Renewal
Center. Each unit stands alone and is appropriate for
both professional caregivers and the general public.
• Learn from the remarkable history and cultural
diversity of spiritual caregiving practices and
rituals from around the world-particularly the
Western Monastic “Ars Moriendi” tradition.
• Discover life skills based on clinically-sound
practices that address spiritual and emotional
distress throughout times of transition.
• Explore the critical distinctions between pain and
suffering, curing and healing, spirituality and
religious practice.
• Compare medical and spiritual care models for
diagnosing and responding to human suffering
including the holistic research of Dr. Cicely
Sanders, founder of the modern hospice
movement.
The goal of the workshop is to explore the nature
and inter-relationship among all the dimensions of
human health and suffering–physical, emotional and
psycho-spiritual.
I enthusiastically endorse the Sacred Art of Living
& Dying series because spirituality is the most
overlooked factor in relieving pain.
Dame Cicely Saunders, Md., Founder, St. Christopher’s Hospice,
London
Sacred Art of Living & Dying is necessary in our
times because it takes much more than medicine to
ease human suffering.
Letter from Mother Teresa of Calcutta to Sacred Art of Living
Center
Fee per person: Single includes meals and Tuesday
night lodging: $420. Double includes meals and
Tuesday night lodging: $405. Commuter includes
lunches and program: $350. Register online at
www.thecasa.org or call 480-948-7460, x 157.
Partial scholarships available.
Call Wendy Woods at 480-948-7460, x 157
Registration form for Sacred Art of Living and Dying, February 2 & 3, 2010
Name: __________________________________________ Phone number: _________________________E-mail:_________________________
Address: __________________________________________________ City: ______________________ State: ______ Zip: ____________
Fee person: ____Single: $420 ____Double: $405 ____Commuter: $350
Method of Payment: ____ Check# ______ Cash ____ Visa ____ MasterCard ____
Credit card number: _________________________________________________ Expiration date: __________
Please send to: Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85253 (480) 948-7460, ext. 157
Cancellations received 7 days prior to the program start date will be charged a $20 processing fee.
Cancellations received thereafter are subject to full forfeiture.
Professor Richard Groves is co-founder
of the Sacred Art of Living and Dying.
Sr. Mary Assumpta, CSSP has served on
the Board of Jennings Center for Older
Adults since 1988.
Registration for Sacred Art of Living and Dying, February 2 & 3, 2010
Name: ______________________________________________ Phone number: _______________________ E-mail: ___________________
Address: ________________________________________________ City: ______________________ State: ______ Zip: ____________
Fee Per Person: ____Single, $420 ____Double, $405 ____Commuter, $350
Requests: ____Upper Floor ____Lower Floor ____ Wheelchair Accessible Share room with ___________________________________________
Method of Payment: ____Cash ____Check ____Credit card
Credit card number: _________________________________________________ Expiration date: ___________
Please send to: Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85253
For phone registration: (480) 948-7460, ext. 157
Or register online at www.thecasa.org
CEU’s (14 credits per unit)
Association of Professional Chaplains
National Association of Social Workers
California Board of Nurses
California Board of Behavioral Sciences
Nevada Board of Nurses