May 29-31, 2019 University of Southern California 3607 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, California 90089 Hosted by: PROGRAM BOOK Welcome to the Moral Injury and Pathways to Recovery Conference In addition to the conference schedule, you will find information about the presenters, the seminars, and resources for further information about moral injury. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE May 29: Plenary Day (USC Trojan Ballroom) 7:00 am Registration (Continental Breakfast) 8:30 am- 9:00 am Welcome and Announcements Belva Brown Jordan, MDiv, Dean of Disciples Seminary Foundation and Assoc. Dean of Curriculum and Assessment, Claremont School of Theology Welcome from Partners Jonathan E. Sherin, MD, PhD Director, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Mark Ridley-Thomas, Supervisor, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Mike King, President & CEO, Volunteers of America Introduction of Faculty—Rev. Jordan 9:00 am- 9:30 am Opening Ritual Chaplain Nathan Graeser 9:30 am- 10:45 am Plenary 1—Moral Injury: Definitions, New Research, and Clinical andSpiritual Approaches William P. Nash, MD and Rita N. Brock, PhD Psychiatrist William Nash will present a range of definitions and current research about moral injury. Theologian Rita Brock will offer a view of its spiritual/community dimensions. Then they will engage in a dialogue about how their various approaches intersect and differ and what they offer each other. There will also be time for a conversation with the audience. 10:45 am- 11:15 am Break 11:15 am- 12:30 pm Plenary 2—Narrative Practices for Processing Moral Injury Joanne Braxton, PhD and Cynda Hylton-Rushton, PhD Humanities Scholar and Minister Joanne Braxton and Medical Ethicist Cynda Hylton-Rushton will discuss moral injury in relation to healthcare and trauma and describe strategies for processing it in care-givers and those they care for through the use of narrative practices. 12:30 pm- 1:15 pm Lunch 1:15 pm- 2:30 pm Plenary 3—Arts & Healing Ping Ho, MPH This plenary will enable participants to use the arts in managing trauma and moral injury and explore how the language of non-judgment in arts-work can enhance engagement and dialogue with clients. It will demonstrate experientially how the arts can facilitate self- expression, stress reduction, positive emotions, and connection to others in an interactive hour of art making, movement, music making, and writing. 2:30 pm- 3:45 pm Plenary 4—Care for Caregivers Carrie Doehring, PhD and Nancy Ramsay, PhD Pastoral theologian and licensed psychologist Carrie Doehring and pastoral theologian and director of the Soul Repair Center Nancy Ramsay will discuss moral distress and moral injury in caregivers, both professional and familial, and offer strategies for self-care in diverse populations. 1 3:45 pm- 4:15 pm Break 4:15 pm- 5:30 pm Plenary 5—Spiritual/Community Responses to Moral Injury De Hong, PhD; Amir Hussain, PhD; Cori Williams, MDiv; and Belva Brown Jordan, MDiv This panel will examine Moral Injury and spiritual strategies for recovery in Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. It will review the challenges, community impact, and approaches to healing that will allow attendees to better assist individuals and communities with recovery from Moral Injury. In addition, panelists will explore commonalities among their traditions and the spiritual resources available across lines of difference. There will be time for attendees to engage in an interactive dialogue with the panelists. 5:30 pm Pick up CE and BCCI certificates (6 hrs.) 5:45-6:45 pm Reception (Trojan Family Room) May 30: Seminars—Day Two 8:30 am- 9:00 am Continental Breakfast 9:00 am- 10:30 pm Seminars Meet (go directly to your seminar meeting room) 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 Seminars Meet 12:30 pm- 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 pm- 3:30 pm Seminars Meet 3:30 pm- 4:00 pm Break Five Hour Seminars end: Doehring, Ramsay Receive 5 hr CME, CE, BCCI certificates 4:00 pm- 5:30 pm Seminars Meet 5-hr Seminars Begin: Haight, Hong/Williams) May 31: Seminars and Plenary—Day Three 9:00 am- 10:30 pm All Seminars Meet 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-1:00 All Seminars Meet for Final Session Receive 5 or 10 hr CME, CE, BCCI certificates 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm Lunch All Seminars End 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm Closing Plenary with Presenters Looking Forward to Networking 2 CONFERENCE PRESENTERS Seminar 1: Leaving Prison Before You Get Out Upumoni S. Ama, GRIP (Guiding Rage Into Power) facilitator, is a redeemed convict, and a “returned citizen” from a prison life sentence. After serving eleven years of his life sentence, Upu vowed to change his thinking and behavior and participated in prison rehabilitation and arts programs. In 2015, Upu graduated from GRIP (Guiding Rage Into Power), a 12-month program at San Quentin Prison, where he transformed himself into a model prisoner and used what he learned to mentor fellow inmates and youth. In 2017, Upu was paroled and ordered to a halfway house. He now works as a GRIP Facilitator for the GRIP Training Institute in CA. State Prisons. He volunteers once a week to mentor local youths from group homes in Los Angeles. He is husband, father and grandfather. Seminar 3: Resilience Strength Training for Veterans Timothy M. Barth, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Interim Provost, and Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Texas Christian University, teaches courses in neuroscience, psychology, problem-solving, and ethical decision- making. He assisted in creating a TCU undergraduate program in the Psychology of Leadership. Dr. Barth’s areas of expertise and research are in behavioral neuroscience and ethical decision-making. He has published over 30 original research papers and book chapters, most of which evaluate various factors that may influence recovery after brain injury. Dr. Barth worked as a visiting scientist at the Merck Sharp and Dohme Neuroscience Research Centre in Harlow, England, after completing his doctorate at the University of Texas, Austin, and he worked for two years at the National Institute of Mental Health. After leaving NIMH, he accepted a faculty position at Texas Christian University in 1990 and chaired the Department of Psychology for 15 years. Plenary 2 and Seminar 2: Transforming Moral Injury Across the Professions Joanne M. Braxton, Ph. D., M.Div. is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the College of William & Mary and Adjunct Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, where she headed the W&M-EVMS Narrative Medicine for Excellence Project. An accomplished scholar, writer and healer and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, she has also been David B. Larson Fellow in Spirituality and Health at the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center and a wellness consultant to the National Institutes of Health. Currently, Dr. Braxton teaches about Moral Injury as 2018-19 Davis Visiting Professor of Judeo-Christian Values at Ursinus College and serves as a member of the steering committee for the American Academy of Religion Moral Injury and Recovery section. Dr. Braxton is also CEO and lead creative for the Braxton Institute for Sustainability, Resiliency and Joy 501 (c) 3, a co-sponsor with VOA and the Soul Repair Center of the historic September 2017 Moral Injury and Collective Healing advanced training seminar held in Princeton New Jersey. Plenary 1 and Seminar 3: Resilience Strength Training for Veterans Rita Nakashima Brock, Rel. M., M.A., and Ph.D., is Senior Vice President and Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America and a Commissioned Minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Capitol Area Region. From 1981-1997, she taught religion and women’s studies at a number of colleges and universities, including directing the Women’s Studies Program at Stephens College from 1985-89. From 1997-2001, Dr. Brock directed the Fellowship Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, formerly known as the Bunting Institute. She was a fellow at the Harvard Divinity School Center for Values in Public Life (2001-2002) and a Visiting Scholar at the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley (2002-2012). From 2012-2017, she directed the Soul Repair Center, Brite Divinity School at TCU in 2012. She is co-author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War and author of Coming Home Is Hell: Moral Injury after War 2013, The Continuum Guide to Pastoral Care; Post Traumatic Stress, Moral Injury, and Soul Repair: The Implications of Western Christian Theology, 2015, Issues in Science and Theology: Do Emotions Shape the World?; and Moral Conscience, Moral Injury, and Rituals for Recovery, 2019, Moral Injury and Beyond. MC and Plenary 5 Belva Brown Jordan is the Associate Dean for Curriculum and Assessment and associate professor of the practice of ministry at Claremont School of Theology and the Dean of Disciples Seminary Foundation (Claremont). For eight years, she directed field education and taught the practice of ministry at Lancaster Theological Seminary (Lancaster, PA) and in her last year was Dean of the Faculty. She then moved to Harvard University Divinity School (Cambridge, MA) as the assistant dean for student life. After eight years, she became 3 the associate dean for admissions and student services at Phillips Theological Seminary (Tulsa, OK). In 2013, she made the move to Claremont, CA to join the academic administrative team at Claremont School of Theology. Seminar 5: Social and Emotional Arts on a Shoestring Kathy Cass, MA, BC-DMT, NCC, C-IAYT, AHC, is a board-certified dance/movement therapist, nationally certified counselor, certified yoga therapist, and Ayurveda health counselor.