Presenters
Pam Brown RN is a Hospice educator and hospice consultant nurse for HealthReach HomeCare & Hospice. She provides end-of-life care education to HealthReach providers, contracted nursing facilities, hospitals, health centers, boarding homes, volunteer agencies and communities in the central Maine area. She has more than 20 years of experience in hospice and end-of-life care, specializing in pain and symptom management and grief work.
Marj Burgess, LPC maintains a private counseling practice in Gardiner and is a published essayist. She conducts writing workshops and consults with individuals interested in the publication process.
Frederic C. Craigie, PhD is a faculty member at the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency and the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Medical School. He has spoken and written extensively about spirituality and health care and has coordinated the Nevola Symposium since its beginning in 1987.
Lynn Durham is the mother of three sons, and a well-being coach for people who want to embrace and celebrate life. Called "a creative antidote" to the stresses of daily life, Lynn presents Mind/ Body/Spirit programs for stress hardiness and lighthearted living. Through her writing, speaking, TV and radio appearances, individuals have gained insights to choose the best strategies and tools to improve the quality of their personal and professional lives.
Jim Gill and Robin T. Neal are both licensed marriage and family therapists with practices in Gardiner and Auburn. Jim is also a retired Episcopal priest.
Ron Goldman, EdD is a practicing psychotherapist, educator, management consultant and actor. He is the chief author of The Art of Loving Well, a text that uses stories to educate about love and sexuality, runs a film series, Psychology Goes to the Movies, and is a senior facilitator with the Ariel Consulting Group, which uses approaches adapted from the theater to enhance leadership, communication and team-building skills. Recently, he co-authored and acted in a one-person play, Interplay, a story about an aging Viennese psychoanalyst and a struggling Shakespearean actor.
Kenneth Hamilton, MD, CM is a board-certified general surgeon whose pathology professor told his class in 1957 that it was their duty to inform patients of the nature of their disease(s), instruct them to get their affairs in order and promise them that, as their physicians, they would do everything possible to help them get on with their lives. When he began his surgical practice in Norway, Maine, in 1971, his patients effectively called on him to make good on that promise. This led to the first HOPE Group meeting in February 1987, whose revealed spiritual nature led to the first SoulCircling workshop in 1996. He sheathed his surgeon's scalpel in 1989 to focus on and develop this powerful spiritual work.
Rick Hobbs, MD is a family physician, formerly on the faculty of the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, now in private practice specializing in acupuncture and integrative medicine. His training includes a one-year program in medical acupuncture at the University of Alberta and a three-month sabbatical in China, where he took a research course and an advanced clinical course. Rick has long been interested in the importance of spirituality in health and wellness and Chinese medicine affords him the opportunity to address spiritual issues more directly in patient care.
Nidhi Jain, MD MPH is a second year resident at the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency who has worked in AIDS prevention, polio eradication and in promoting intergenerational and multicultural understanding. She has been a practitioner and teacher of yoga for many years
Mark Jose, LCSW is manager of counseling and bereavement services at HealthReach Hospice. He has worked in counseling for more than 25 years, and has been with HealthReach Hospice for 11 years.
Dance and movement have been lifelong studies for Katenia Keller. She has facilitated the discovery of personal movement, educated, directed workshops and choreographed work for herself and others since 1982. She works as an Artist in Residence in Maine schools, is choreographer for the Maine Dance Institute and creates and performs solo works that reflect her life experience.
Susan MacKenzie, PhD is program director at Living Water Spiritual Center in Winslow, Maine. A spiritual director who works with individuals seeking more intention in their spiritual lives, she is also a registered Maine Guide and leads indoor and outdoor retreats throughout New England.
Barbara Moss, DO, MPH practiced osteopathic family medicine in Coopers Mills for several years before joining the faculty of the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, where she serves as associate director of Osteopathic Education.
Katje Musgrave, DO is a first year resident at the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency. She is a graduate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. Before medical school, she taught yoga at a wellness and rehabilitation facility in Texas.