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Upcoming Healing Journeys Conference: June 23-24, 2012
Posted: 5/17/2012
Healing Journeys will be at Spartanburg Methodist College Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24th, "Cancer as a Turning Point-From Surviving to Thriving!"
Anyone touched by cancer or any life-altering illness should attend, including providers, caregivers and friends. The conference focuses differentiating the body and healing the person, exploring illness as an awakening with transformative potential, and rekindling hope to live fully in the present.
Our keynote speaker is an amazing author - Thomas Moore - he has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts.
For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.healingjourneys.org/overview-spartanburg-conference/ (details/registration)
http://careofthesoul.net/
Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in every aspect of life. He lectures frequently in Ireland and has a special love of Irish culture. He has a Ph. D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University and the Humanitarian Award from Einstein Medical School of Yeshiva University. Three of his books have won the prestigious Books for a Better Life awards. He writes fiction and music and often works with his wife, artist and yoga instructor, Hari Kirin. He writes regular columns for Resurgence, Spirituality & Health, and The Huffington Post and has recently published Writing in the Sand: The Spirituality of Jesus and the Soul of the Gospels, Care of the Soul in Medicine, and The Guru of Golf and Other Stories about the Game of Life. Much of his recent work has focused on the world of medicine, speaking to nurses and doctors about the soul and spirit of medical practice.