As President of the Louisiana Counseling Association, Dr. Christine Ebrhaim created the Leadership Development and Mentoring Institute (LDMI). The LDMI connects new counseling professionals and Counselor Educators with less than 5 years of experience as well as graduate counseling students to mentors who will work together over the course of a year to collaborate on anything the mentee finds valuable to their professional development.
Loyola Institute for Ministry Student Lorraine Hess will held a CD release concert on Saturday December 2 at Loyola's Monroe Hall. Her CD Glorify Him is being released by World Library Publications (WLP), which live-streamed the concert.
Because of her interaction with Passionist “Ecologian” Fr. Thomas Berry beginning in the early 1990s, LIM Professor Emerita Kathleen O’Gorman was a forerunner in highlighting the centrality of creation for practical theology, pastoral studies, and religious education. To honor his work at Loyola and her legacy in the Loyola Institute for Ministry, we have developed the Berry Project. For more information about the Berry Project, see http://cnh.loyno.edu/lim/thomas-berry-project.
Congratulations to LIM graduate Kathy Smith who, as a result of her studies in Religion and Ecology at LIM, is the founder and Executive Director of Baptist Creation Care Initiative! Its mission is to offer a distinctly Baptist voice of faith, enriched by science and action, and empowered by biblical insight and a love of creation. She writes, "We strive to be a venue where Baptists of many different traditions can discuss the place of both the Bible and science in our shared understanding of God's wonderful creation.
Kathy Williams (MPS '15) was recently named Director of Communications for the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville.
Congratulations to Becky Eldredge (MPS '08 from Baton Rouge) who recently published Busy Lives and Restless Souls: How Prayer Can Help You Find the Missing Piece in Your Life (Loyola Press, 2017)!
Becky also writes a blog, speaks, and gives retreats. For more on her, see her website: https://beckyeldredge.com
The article explores the intersection of the study of materiality, a medieval instance of the sensus fidelium in the eucharistic Feast of Corpus Christi, and the paradox that the bodily senses other than taste and touch can be a means of encounter with the divine. In doing so, the article gestures toward implications for laity, spirituality, and theology today.
This year Loyola Faculty and Students have been accepted to present at the ACA 2017 Conference in San Francisco, California. We would like to congratulate these individuals for their hard work and dedication to the field.
Student led poster board presentation accepted:
Integrating Gestalt Play Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in the Treatment of Traumatized Children, by Patricia M. Hickham
BSN-DNP student Melody Eschete has been announced as the Louisiana Association of Nurse Practitioners (LANP) Nurse Practitioner Student of the Year. This award is given to one LANP student member for her or his outstanding character, school performance, leadership, and interpersonal skills. It is the second year in a row that a Loyola University New Orleans student was awarded this honor.