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The Spirituality in Health Care Network (SHCN) is a network of
professionals and spiritual leaders dedicated to integrating
Spirituality with Psychotherapy and Health Care. SHCN was founded
December 2000, in Toronto, Canada, by Yvonne Kason MD and John Thornton
MD together with a group of over 50 founding members. It was
unanimously agreed that SHCN would be a bridging network, a forum for
spiritually oriented health-care professionals of diverse specialty and
training and spiritual leaders of all affiliations to explore the
integration of spiritual traditions and practices into health-care.
SHCN's Goals are:1. To promote supportive dialogue and networking
between health-care professionals, therapists, academics, researchers,
and clergy of all affiliations interested in integrating Spirtuality
with Psychotherapy and Health Care; 2. To provide educational
opportunities via informal evening network meetings with speakers from
within the network and with small group discussions; 3. To facilitate
communication between network members regarding conferences and events
of mutual interest via an email newsgroup; 4. to foster the field of
spirituality and health care by holding at least one full day
meeting/conference per year with multiple speakers on various aspects
of spirituality and health; and 5. To honor the network's broad-based
spiritual focus by opening and closing meetings with a sacred ritual
from diverse spiritual traditions. SHCN Ontario invites and encourages
professionals living in other regions to start a local branch of the
network and to hold local network meetings.
