ewan kelly (programme director for spiritual care and healthcare chaplaincy, nes)
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Co-producing meaning and purpose to help build resilient communities: health and care chaplains and faith groups involved in working with local people. Ewan Kelly (Programme Director for Spiritual Care and Healthcare Chaplaincy, NES) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Co-producing meaning and purposeto help build resilient communities:
health and care chaplains and faith groups involved in working with local people
Ewan Kelly (Programme Director for Spiritual Care and Healthcare Chaplaincy, NES)
Calum Strang (Community Development Worker, Faith in Community Scotland)
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AimsExplore how helping people find meaning and purpose
individually and corporately helps promote wellbeing and builds resilient communities:
Through sharing: • insights from Community Chaplaincy Listening: service based in
GP surgeries where healthcare chaplains help patients (re)discover their personal assets or inner resources to live with loss and transition
• a collaborative model of engagement developed by Faith in Community as they seek to work with local faith communities in the poorest areas of Glasgow
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Meaning and Purpose
Chat to your neighbour and identify 3 aspects of your life that:
• make you get up in the morning
• raises your spirits GIVE MEANING
• you fall back on when the chips are down AND PURPOSE
• make you feel alive
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Co-production and meaning and purpose
Often relationships or being involved in activities which involve working together that contribute much to:
• meaning and purpose• wellbeing• hope• resilience
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Spiritual care ....
“.....is person centred care which seeks to help people (re)discover hope, resilience and inner strength in times of illness, injury, transition and loss.”
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What is chaplaincy listening? What is unique about it?
Focussed on helping patients explore existential questions and questions about personal identity in relation to loss and transition in their lives
Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve this? If there is a God why does God allow this to happen? REFERRAL I haven’t been a bad person! It’s not fair!
TRIGGERSI don’t know who I am any more…..
Helping patients to (re)discover their personal assets or inner resources to live with these questions and the loss and transition in their lives
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Being with
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Community Chaplaincy Listening : the intervention
NHS Chaplains in General Practice surgeries Patients referred to listening service by GPs (in the
main)Patients seen for 50 mins each session by Chaplains:
average number of sessions 2Patients tell story and work through their concerns Chaplain provides active listening and guided support –
focus on existential and identity questions
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Action Research Findings from CCL Phase 2 (2011-2012)
11 health boards, 16 healthcare chaplains, 250 patients
• Increased self-management, self-worth and confidence in decision-making
• Reduced GP time with such patients• Normalisation of sadness, anxiety and loss of
meaning during times of transition and lossFocussing of prescribing
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23 GP Practices, 11 Health Boards involved in CCL 2(2011 - autumn 2012)
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Community Chaplaincy Listening Phase 3 (Feb 2013-2015)
- funded by Scottish Government,managed by NES and Univ of Aberdeen
Expected outcomes• Recruitment of further GP surgeries across Scotland• Development of CCL in other health and social care contexts• Cost benefit analysis of CCL• Development of an ‘accredited’ training scheme for volunteer spiritual
care listeners• Use of specifically recruited, trained and supervised volunteers as
spiritual care listeners as part of established CCL services• Chaplains to provide training and supervision and continue to deal with
complex existential issues
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Figurin’
The Joad Family
Grapes of WrathJ Steinbeck
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You are bound to get idears, if you go thinking
about stuff
Reflection leads to change!
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Ony one thing in the world I’m sure of, an
that’s I’m sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella’s life. He got to
do it all by hisself. Help him maybe, but not tell
him what to do…
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Maybe I oughtn to a talked like that- fella should maybe keep stuff like that in his head?
Yes you should talk- sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out of his mouth….
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Talking and listening
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