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News Release
Tyndale hosts "Meaning Conference"
to explore how to live well and die well
May 21, 2008 -- For Immediate Release
TORONTO, May 21 - What is a "good death"? This is one
of the big questions to be addressed by the world's leading experts
on death and dying at the 5th Biennial International Meaning Conference
on July 24-27, in Toronto. Invited speakers include psychologists,
death educators, chaplains and medical doctors in palliative care.
They will tackle the biggest challenge facing all of us: How to
be prepared for the end of life's journey and to die a good death.
"Death is the only certainty, and yet most people know so little
about it," said Dr. Paul T. P. Wong, Conference Chair and Psychology
Professor at Tyndale University College in Toronto. The main conference
theme is Living well and dying well: New frontiers of positive psychology,
therapy and spiritual care. The purpose of the conference is to
exchange research findings, clinical interventions and spiritual
insights on how to live fully with the awareness of personal mortality.
The conference will cover a wide range of themes such as death
education, spiritual care in hospice and end-of-life decisions.
It will also explore the impact of death attitudes on a number of
social concerns such as addiction, suicide, violence and terrorism.
In addition to many professional workshops, the conference has a
distinguished faculty of more than 20 academics and clinicians to
address psychological, spiritual and medical issues related to living
and dying well. The Conference is both international and inter-disciplinary.
Thomas Attig, adjunct Professor of King's College and author of
The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love, will
provide fresh ideas and hopeful visions about grieving in his keynote
address. Robert A. Neimeyer, Editor of Death Studies and author
or more than 15 books on death and bereavement, will give a keynote
address and a workshop on the meaning-making process in coping with
death and loss.
The distinguished public lecture will be given by Pamela Wallin,
O.C., and S.O.M. As a cancer survivor, she will talk about her personal
journey of struggle and recovery and her secrets of living fully
and vitally in spite of cancer. She will also share the collected
wisdom of many of the highly successful people she has interviewed.
Her lecture will illuminate the human conditions and inspire hope.
She will provide a convincing case on the imperative of purpose
and character strengths throughout life's journey in order to live
well and die well regardless of personal circumstances. This conference
is organized and hosted by the Psychology Department of Tyndale
University College on behalf of International Network on Personal
Meaning (INPM). For more information about the Conference, visit
www.meaning.ca.
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Media Contact: Jacqueline Getfield,
Director of Communications
25 Ballyconnor Court, Toronto, ON M2M 4B3
jgetfield@tyndale.ca
416-226-6620 ext 2784
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