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Peter is a Chaplain for the Hospice / Karuna programs of Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. He attended Gustavus Adolphus College, receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Religion and Psychology. His Master’s Degree in Divinity was received from Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He was ordained as a Minister in the United Church of Christ in 1996, and served as an Associate Pastor at a church for three years. Peter has worked at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics since 1996. He has mostly worked on inpatient units, but has been with the Home Care Hospice/ Karuna programs for over two years now. Peter has also been very involved with the extensive bereavement program at Children's.
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Session Descriptions:
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Cross-Cultural Grief: Appreciating the Cultural Dimensions of Dying, Death, Grief, and Mourning: Explore roles that cultural heritage plays in an individual's experience of grief and mourning to help identify and develop an effective care plan. Receive insight to end- of-life rites and rituals including: baptism, medical intervention, autopsies, organ donation, burial, cremation, funeral services and after-life bliefs. Participants will look outward to the varieties of cultural expressions around the world, but also inward to examining our own beliefs, and attitude of respect.