Refuge in the Storm
Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care
by Nathaniel Michon
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Pub Date 6 Jun 2023 | Archive Date 20 Mar 2023
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Description
24 wise and compassionate Buddhist perspectives on crisis care—contemplative practices and spiritual principles to help individuals, families, and communities in crisis and the care providers who support them.
Refuge in the Storm presents a wide range of Buddhist perspectives on crisis care. Written by experienced chaplains, spiritual teachers, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, medical providers, and scholars, the essays in this timely anthology explore a spectrum of personal and global crises: climate chaos, COVID, natural disasters, racism, social inequity, illness, and dying.
Drawing on Buddhist principles and practices, these essays offer a wealth of insights for supporting individuals and communities in crisis as well as preventing fatigue and burnout in care providers. The 24 essays in this anthology show readers how to:
• Provide spiritual companionship to ill, aging, and dying clients
• Infuse crisis care with mindfulness, compassion, prayer, and even playfulness
• Prevent burnout with self-care practices rooted in Buddhist principles
• Develop self-awareness and self-knowledge as a care provider
• Pursue the path of Buddhist chaplaincy
Edited by Nathan Jishin Michon—Buddhist priest, chaplain, meditation teacher, and editor of A Thousand Hands: A Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Community—this one-of-a-kind anthology helps care providers develop the compassion, attention, wisdom, and presence needed to support individuals and communities to move through suffering into healing.
Refuge in the Storm presents a wide range of Buddhist perspectives on crisis care. Written by experienced chaplains, spiritual teachers, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, medical providers, and scholars, the essays in this timely anthology explore a spectrum of personal and global crises: climate chaos, COVID, natural disasters, racism, social inequity, illness, and dying.
Drawing on Buddhist principles and practices, these essays offer a wealth of insights for supporting individuals and communities in crisis as well as preventing fatigue and burnout in care providers. The 24 essays in this anthology show readers how to:
• Provide spiritual companionship to ill, aging, and dying clients
• Infuse crisis care with mindfulness, compassion, prayer, and even playfulness
• Prevent burnout with self-care practices rooted in Buddhist principles
• Develop self-awareness and self-knowledge as a care provider
• Pursue the path of Buddhist chaplaincy
Edited by Nathan Jishin Michon—Buddhist priest, chaplain, meditation teacher, and editor of A Thousand Hands: A Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Community—this one-of-a-kind anthology helps care providers develop the compassion, attention, wisdom, and presence needed to support individuals and communities to move through suffering into healing.
A Note From the Publisher
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Advance Praise
“In a world where crises happen every day, living through disaster and with trauma are frighteningly common human experiences. Caregivers grapple with the crises of their own lives even as they seek to help those actively experiencing crisis and disaster in the present moment…. This book is essential reading; from foundational chapters on dealing with personal loss to wide-scale disasters to very specific situations like the ICU—no matter their circumstance, every caregiver can benefit from each chapter.” —Monica Sanford, assistant dean of Interfaith Ministry at Harvard University and author of Kalyanamitra
“Refuge in the Storm is a timely and precious anthology of experienced Buddhist psychologists, chaplains, counselors, and other voices from around the world.… [the essays are] accessible and practical resources for those providing care today to continue their work as bodhisattvas based on the wisdom contained in Buddhist texts. This collection of essays is clearly a gift from bodhisattvas to bodhisattvas.”
—Venerable Jue Wei, director of the Humanistic Buddhism Center at Nan Tien Institute, and ordained in the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order
“An accessible, practical, scholarly resource for chaplains and other caregivers. Refuge in the Storm contextualizes what we know about crisis care by integrating psychosocial understandings and Buddhist wisdom in nuanced and generative ways. This is dāna of the highest order, a foundational text for the maturing profession of Buddhist chaplaincy. You’ll want this in your professional library to refer to over and over.”
—Duane Bidwell, Center for Health Professions Education, Hebert School of Medicine; author of When One Religion Isn’t Enough; and board member at the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
“Refuge in the Storm is a timely and precious anthology of experienced Buddhist psychologists, chaplains, counselors, and other voices from around the world.… [the essays are] accessible and practical resources for those providing care today to continue their work as bodhisattvas based on the wisdom contained in Buddhist texts. This collection of essays is clearly a gift from bodhisattvas to bodhisattvas.”
—Venerable Jue Wei, director of the Humanistic Buddhism Center at Nan Tien Institute, and ordained in the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order
“An accessible, practical, scholarly resource for chaplains and other caregivers. Refuge in the Storm contextualizes what we know about crisis care by integrating psychosocial understandings and Buddhist wisdom in nuanced and generative ways. This is dāna of the highest order, a foundational text for the maturing profession of Buddhist chaplaincy. You’ll want this in your professional library to refer to over and over.”
—Duane Bidwell, Center for Health Professions Education, Hebert School of Medicine; author of When One Religion Isn’t Enough; and board member at the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781623178093 |
| PRICE | US$18.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 256 |
