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MAR 4

Spirituality and End of Life Day Conference

4 March 2017, York

Learning to live together with all faiths and none means learning how to die together. Beliefs about death affects beliefs about life, and likewise death and dying reveal a lot about what believers understand of the soul, the afterlife, the divine, and other questions.

This day conference, arranged by Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations, will be:

• educational - practical aspects of death and dying in other traditions (including a workshop from two hospice workers);

• practical - including running a death café in your own meeting for different faiths and none;

• stimulating - in exploring other faiths beliefs around death.

Pastoral support will be available.

Tea and coffee will be provided but candidates will be expected to provide their own lunches.

Schedule

The day will start with a plenary, addressing the question 'What does what you believe about death affect what you believe about life?'

There will be two sets of workshop slots before and after lunch.

  • Meeting the speakers and further questions
  • Death cafés: experiences of interfaith encounters, and how to run one in your meeting house
  • Caring for people of different faiths at the end of their lives - a palliative care approach'. Workshop led by Val Bone, a hospice practice educator, and Ann Banks, hospice volunteer and student soul midwife.
  • Spirituality and the end of life in the Baha'i faith - facilitated by two members of the 'Baha'is of York'
  • Worship sharing, reflections on the day - in the second slot

Speakers

Trupti Patel, President of the Hindu Forum of Britain

Andrew Foster, Methodist Chaplain at York Hospital

Rabbi Amanda Golby, Rabbi at the North London Synagoge and the 'Faith and Dementia' network (recorded)

Booking

The booking fee for the conference is £25. Please complete and return the attached payment form. Bookings are now open for all interested. Please book as soon as possible to ensure your place.

If you are a nominated area meeting representative, please ask your AM nominations clerk to contact Graham Spackman on grahams@quaker.org.uk so he can add you to the attendees list and email you with further details.

More information

For more information contact:

Graham Spackman

Telephone: 020 7663 1021

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Date & time

Start: 10:30 on 4 March 2017

Finish: 16:00 on 4 March 2017

Location

York Friargate Quaker Meeting House
Lower Friargate
York
YO1 9RL
United Kingdom

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