Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources and Method
Invitation: For You Who Do This Work
Part I. Vocation as Path
Chapter 1. The Healing Vocation
Chapter 2. On Depletion and Burnout: Reframing the Darkness
Chapter 3. How Breakthrough Happens: The Mutuality of Healing
Chapter 4. The Practice of Replenishment and Renewal: Core
Exercises
Chapter 5. In Conclusion: On Healing Presence and Gratitude
Part II. The Dialogues: Deepening Capacity
Dialogue 1. Honing the Exercises
Dialogue 2. The Exercises as Spiritual Disciplines
Dialogue 3. The Essential Skill of Advocacy
Dialogue 4. The Field of Suffering Is the Field of Healing
Dialogue 5. The Fulcrum and the Great Compassion
Appendix: A Practice Calendar
References
Index
David Schenck is the former Director of the Ethics Program, Medical
University of South Carolina, and was on the faculty of the Center
for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical
Center. He is co-author of two books that approach ethics and
healing in healthcare from an empirical perspective, Healers:
Extraordinary Clinicians at Work (Oxford, 2015) and What Patients
Teach: Everyday Ethics of Healthcare
(Oxford, 2013). Schenck taught philosophy and religion for 20 years
and has published widely in bioethics, philosophy, and religious
studies. He was founding executive director of a free medical
clinic, healthcare advocate for the homeless,
and a 25-year hospice volunteer.
Scott Neely is minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Spartanburg, South Carolina. He serves as strategist for Speaking
Down Barriers, an organization that uses art and facilitated
dialogue to build our life together across differences that divide
us. He has helped develop LGBTQ Theologies--a network of
congregations supporting LGBTQ+ people and issues in Upstate South
Carolina, and the Fund to Support Latinx Immigrants--a state-wide
coalition providing direct
assistance to immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. A graduate
of Harvard Divinity School, he has taught at the University of
South Carolina-Upstate and Wofford College.
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