Announcing an in-person Healing of Memories Workshop for Healthcare Workers. It will be held at Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center in Carefree, AZ on June 13-15, 2025. The workshop will provide the participants with a safe experiential and interactive way to address anger, loss, grief, and guilt. The workshop is free of charge to any healthcare worker. This includes healthcare team leaders, managers, nurses, doctors, and facility staff, behavioral health workers, social workers, chaplains, administrators, EMTs, and anyone who see patients. The workshop includes all meals and two nights lodging. It begins with dinner at 6pm on Friday, June 13 and ends at 2pm on Sunday, June 15. Healthcare workers who have attended this workshop say that it was a major step in their healing from their psychological and spiritual wounds.
The Healing of Memories Workshop was created by Father Michael Lapsley, an Anglican missionary priest, who in 1990 suffered the loss of his hands and the sight in one eye from a letter bomb that was sent to him in Zimbabwe by a supporter of the pro-apartheid government in South Africa. After a long recovery from the bombing, Father Lapsley decided to dedicate his life to helping victims of emotional, psychological and spiritual wounds inflicted by war, human rights abuses and other traumatic circumstances.
Any healthcare worker who is interested in the workshop may find out more information or register free for the workshop by contacting Graciela Marroquin, US Army Medic and coordinator for this workshop, at [email protected] or 509-910-5472
Mike Wold,
Arizona Coordinator
Institute for Healing of Memories N. America
Carefree
