MIND, BODY, SPIRIT service
June 30, 2017Sunday 30 July, 5.30-7.30pm, here at North Balwyn UC
Speaker: Pastor Karen Eller is the Uniting Church Chaplain at The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Topic: “Admission to exile” – For many, admission to hospital can be an overwhelming and alienating experience. Even the language and landscape of hospitals are foreign. Dignity is surrendered and vulnerability is off the chart. In hospital there is much interest in body; its failures, its capacity to heal and all manner of interventions to assist recovery. All of us are embodied people and the impact of hospitalisation on personhood can vary from mild impact to major crisis.
Karen will offer insights into the unique challenges of caring for patients, family members and staff in the radical clinical setting of a teaching hospital.