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Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care
Author: Nathan Jishin Michon
Year: June 6, 2023
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.3 MB
Language: English

24 wise and compassionate Buddhist perspectives on crisis care - contemplative practices and spiritual principles to help individuals, families, and communities in crisis and the care providers who support them.Refuge in the Storm presents a wide range of Buddhist perspectives on crisis care. Written by experienced chaplains, spiritual teachers, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, medical providers, and scholars, the essays in this timely anthology explore a spectrum of personal and global climate chaos, COVID, natural disasters, racism, social inequity, illness, and dying.Drawing on Buddhist principles and practices, these essays offer a wealth of insights for supporting individuals and communities in crisis as well as preventing fatigue and burnout in care providers. The 24 essays in this anthology show readers how o Provide spiritual companionship to ill, aging, and dying clientso Infuse crisis care with mindfulness, compassion, prayer, and even playfulnesso Prevent burnout with self-care practices rooted in Buddhist principles o Develop self-awareness and self-knowledge as a care providero Pursue the path of Buddhist chaplaincyEdited by Nathan Jishin Michon - Buddhist priest, chaplain, meditation teacher, and editor of A Thousand A Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Communit y - this one-of-a-kind anthology helps care providers develop the compassion, attention, wisdom, and presence needed to support individuals and communities to move through suffering into healing.

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