2nd Annual Spiritual Care Summit:

Re-Sourcing the Caregiver

A day to retreat, reconnect, and replenish your capacity to care for yourself and others.

Cost:

Sliding Scale

$25 - $100

$15 Scholarships Available

When:

Friday, June 13th 2025

9:15 A.M - 5 P.M.

Lunch, Included.

Where:

St. Joseph’s College

278 Whites Bridge Rd.

Standish ME 04084

Connect with other spiritual caregivers.

Get Reacquainted with your foundational lineages.

Leave relaxed, refreshed, and reconnected to Source.

If you spend your days caring for the hearts and spirits of others, let us spend a day caring for you!

Our Keynote speaker, Dr. Vaishali Mamgain will address caregiver burnout, the long-term nature of caregiving, ways to maintain empathy when dealing with differing viewpoints, and how polishing up our connection to formational lineages, be they intellectual, familial, terrestrial, or spiritual can keep us fresh and grounded.

If you are joining us in person, you will enjoy an extended lunch from St. Joseph's well-equipped cafeteria, followed by your choice of two engaging breakout sessions. Each session is thoughtfully designed to foster deep connections and meaningful conversations, all while you take in the serene beauty of St. Joseph's campus, situated on the picturesque banks of Sebago Lake.

We aim for you to leave feeling refreshed, reenergized, and reconnected to your inner self!

To ensure everyone can participate, we are offering admission on a sliding scale. If you’re in a position to support others, please consider paying the full price and adding a donation to Spiritual Care Services of Maine with your ticket purchase.

For those who can’t attend in person, we will live stream the morning session, including Dr. Mamgain's keynote address.

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Vaishali Mamgain

As the Director of the Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion, Dr. Vaishali Mamgain facilitates workshops to help people develop greater awareness and the tools necessary to unseat oppression in all its forms including the internalized oppression and “colonization” of contemplative practices. Based on years of contemplative retreats, she encourages participants to draw on everyday experiences to have greater self-compassion, empathy, and openness to change.

Dr. Vaishali Mamgain received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her past research focused on the contributions of (im)migrants and refugees in the Maine economy. Her current research is in contemplative pedagogy; she is passionate about deconstructing epistemology by using embodiedness and immersive practices in the natural world as ways to undo internalized oppression and the “colonization” of contemplative practices. As the Director of the Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion, Vaishali facilitates workshops to help people develop greater awareness and the tools necessary to unseat oppression in all its forms. Based on years of contemplative retreats, she encourages participants to draw on everyday experiences to have greater self-compassion, empathy, and openness to change. Such training can help people engage and overturn systemic problems such as racism with a sense of joy and purpose. A working contemplative, Vaishali has meditated, wandered and ‘retreat’ed for many years. In 2017, she completed a 3 year meditation retreat at Samten Ling Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado and now lives in beautiful, coastal Maine where she enjoys swimming in the sea, admiring seaweed, running, hiking and cooking.

Breakout Sessions

Nourish, reflect, play, and create. We all have our own ways of connecting with Source. Whether you’d like to explore a new path for connection or sink into a familiar modality, we have four diverse breakout sessions to choose from. Each doorway below will take you to a page to learn more about each workshop and, when you are ready to register, you may choose two sessions to complete your day!