Lost in translation?

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Lost in translation? Bill Bazely UKBHC
Registered Chaplain
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translation translation  (tr ns-l sh n, tr
nz-) n. 1 a. The act or process of
translating, especially from one language into
another. b. The state of being translated. 2. A
translated version of a text. 3. Physics Motion
of a body in which every point of the body moves
parallel to and the same distance as every other
point of the body. 4. Biology The process by
which messenger RNA directs the amino acid
sequence of a growing polypeptide during protein
synthesis.
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• The Place I Want to Get Back To
• is where
• in the pinewoods
• in the moments between
• the darkness
• and first light
• two deer
• came walking down the hill
• and when they saw me

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• they said to each other, okay,
• this one is okay,
• lets see who she is
• and why she is sitting
• On the ground, like that,
• so quiet, as if
• asleep, or in a dream,
• but, anyway, harmless

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• and so they came
• on their slender legs
• and gazed upon me
• not unlike the way
• I go out to the dunes and look
• and look and look
• into the faces of the flowers
• and then one of them leaned forward

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• and nuzzled my hand, and what can my life
• bring to me that could exceed
• that brief moment?
• For twenty years
• I have gone every day to the same woods,
• not waiting, exactly, just lingering.
• Such gifts, bestowed,
• cant be repeated.

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• If you want to talk about this
• come to visit. I live in the house
• near the corner, which I have named
• Gratitude.
• Mary Oliver Thirst 2007

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• What will you be taking back from this place
• to your place, today?
• Though we might like to linger
• we have to go.

How will you translate what you have found
here into your life, your relationships,
your practice?
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• How do we manage
• Gift and Loss?

How do we move from Spiritual Desolation
to Spiritual Consolation?
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• An unexpected encounter with
• gift and loss

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• An unexpected encounter with
• gift and loss

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• An unexpected encounter with
• gift and loss

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• An unexpected encounter with
• gift and loss

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• What do chaplains do?

The Core Task
Seeking people who need them
Identifying the nature of the need
Responding to the need through theological and
spiritual praxis
Mowat Swinton, What do Chaplains do?, 2005
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• What do I do?

I seek to be a person,
recognising others as people
and supporting them in being human beings.
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Guidelines on spirituality for staff in acute
care services. 2008 www.virtualward.org.uk
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• Spirituality and Identity, from Guidelines on
  Spirituality for staff in acute care services
  CSIP 2008
• www.virtualward.org.uk

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NHS Modernisation Agency 2005 - Good care
planning for people with long-term conditions
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• Spirituality and Identity, from Guidelines on
  Spirituality for staff in acute care services
  CSIP 2008
• www.virtualward.org.uk

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One definition of spirituality Lartey
proposes that spirituality has five dimensions,
which must be understood as belonging together in
an integrated whole. Lartey, E.Y. (1996), In
Living Colour, London, Cassell
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One definition of spirituality built on
relationship
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Spiritual Care Matters Copies of this document
are available, on request, in audio and large
print formats and in community languages. Please
call 0131 313 8000. NHS Education for
Scotland Thistle House 91 Haymarket
Terrace EDINBURGH EH12 5HE www.nes.scot.nhs.uk Fe
bruary 2009
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New Horizons working together for better mental
health Good mental health is important to us
all. The cost of mental ill health touches us all
every day, whether we are aware of it or not, and
the effects on sufferers and their families can
be devastating. 2010 http//www.newhorizons.dh.g
ov.uk/index.aspx
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• The Fist
• There are days
• when the sun goes down
• like a fist,
• though of course
• if you see anything
• in the heavens
• in this way
• you had better get

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• your eyes checked
• or, better still,
• your diminished spirit.
• The heavens
• have no fist,
• or wouldnt they have been
• shaking it
• for a thousand years now,

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• and even
• longer than that,
• at the dull, brutish
• ways of mankind -
• heavens own
• creation?
• Instead such patience!
• Such willingness

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• to let us continue!
• To hear,
• little by little,
• the voices -
• only, so far, in
• pockets of the world -
• suggesting
• the possibilities

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• of peace?
• Keep looking.
• Behold, how the fist opens
• with invitation.
• Mary Oliver Thirst 2007

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• Lost in translation?

Keep listening to those voices
Keep looking in awe and wonder
Keep on Journeying