| Workshop Topic: Spirituality in Caring for the Dying |

Join us for a special workshop with two world-renowned experts in the field of death and dying. Dr. Carl Becker, Specially Appointed Professor of Policy Science at the Medical School of Kyoto University, Japan and Dr. William G. (Bill) Hoy, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Medical Humanities at Baylor University, Waco, TX will discuss research on medical ethics at end of life, psychosocial support for terminal patients, creating meaning-making, and the importance of spiritual experiences of patients facing death.

St. Timothy Catholic Church 29102 Crown Valley Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA

Registration and breakfast 8:30am

Program 9am-12pm

3 FREE CEUs for Nurses and Chaplaincy

– Seating IS Limited –

About the Presenters:

• Carl Becker, PhD., D.Psych. Kyoto University School of Medicine, received his PhD on Death and Dying from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii. Teaching philosophy at SIU Carbondale, he helped establish SIU-C’s Mortuary Science and Funeral Service department. In 1983 he moved to Japan, where he taught at National Osaka, Tsukuba, and Kyoto Universities. In 1986 he received the SIETAR Award for Cross-Cultural Understanding, in 2009, the Honda award from the Emperor for his studies of death and dying, in 2018, an Honorary Doctorate in Psychology from the Moscow Graduate Institute of Psychoanalysis for his work counseling bereaved clients, and in 2021, the Association of Death Education and Counseling award as leading Educator on Death and Dying. Now Professor of the Policy Science Unit at Kyoto University’s School of Medicine, Becker leads a national survey of bereavement, and supports terminal patients and suicidal survivors. He serves on the editorial board of Mortality, Journal of Near-Death Studies, Journal for the Study of Spirituality, and many other medical journals.

• Over the Over the last 40 years, William G. (Bill) Hoy has been walking alongside the dying, the bereaved, and the professionals and volunteers who care for them. From 2012 until May 2024, he was Clinical Professor of Medical Humanities at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. In his semi-retirement, he is fully focused on the continuing education of caregiving professionals and volunteers through writing, program consultation, and workshops such as this. Dr. Hoy is widely regarded as an authority on the role of social support in death, dying and grief and his experience includes more than 17 years at the helm of the bereavement counseling program at Pathways, a hospice and community bereavement center in Long Beach, CA for whom he serves as clinical program advisor. He says it was in the multicultural milieu of Los Angeles County where he learned to appreciate the great gifts culture brings to the experience of loss. Though primarily a bedside clinician, Dr. Hoy has authored more than 250 articles and book chapters as well as seven books. His books in print include Do Funerals Matter? The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective (Routledge, 2013) and Bereavement Groups and the Role of Social Support: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice (Routledge, 2016). His newest volume is entitled Creating Meaning in Funerals: How Families and Communities Make Sense of Death (Routledge, 2025). Bill is active in the Association for Death Education & Counseling on whose board he served from 2012 to 2020 including six years as an officer. In 2021, he was the recipient of the association’s prestigious Academic Educator of the Year award. He also holds an advisory position and is a frequent program contributor for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) and the Hospice Foundation of America, both located in Washington, DC.

Nurses. This program is approved for 3.0 contact hours of nursing continuing education. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider CEP 13486).

Licensed Professional Counselors.  This program is approved for 3.0 contact hours of continuing education for licensed professional counselors by the Texas Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (Provider 1006).

 Additionally, this workshop meets all requirements for continuing education set forth by the International Association for Adult and Continuing Education (IACET), and as such, is applicable for many disciplines. Licensee or registrant is responsible for ascertaining the applicability of this program to meet scope of practice continuing education requirements for your board or association. This certificate should be kept by the licensee for a period of not less than four years from the date of this continuing education activity. This certificate is only valid if the recipient signed in at the program and returned a program evaluation at its conclusion.