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ADEC 32nd Annual Conference
Dying, Death, and Bereavement:  It’s All About the Stories

April 7-10, 2010
Pre-meeting program April 6-7, 2010

Hyatt Regency Crown Center
Kansas City, MO USA

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Concurrent Sessions
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Keynote Speakers

Thomas Lynch
Metaphor and Mortality:  The Narrative Arc between the Living and the Dead

Britt Hysing-Dahl
The Labyrinth of Life, Stories Told and Untold

Robert Neimeyer, PhD
Loss, Grief and the Reconstruction of Meaning

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Featured Speakers

Robert Stake, PhD
Disciplining Remembering Through Case Studies

Louis Gamino, PhD
Ethical Imperatives for the Grief Counselor: ADEC's Code of Ethics and Beyond

Edward Rynearson, MD
Restorative Retelling After Violent Death

Robert Minor, PhD
Heaven and Hell in the Prospects of an LGBT Afterlife

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Conference Co-Chairs:
Harold Ivan Smith, DMin FT
Catherine Johnson, MA FT

 

 

Check out the 2010 Supporters

Tragedy Assistance Program For Survivors (TAPS)

Selected Independent Funeral Homes

SPEAKS: Family Legacy Chapels Funeral & Cremation Services

Kansas City Hospice

Weeks Funeral Home

Baywood

Hospice Foundation of America

Office of Victims of Crime

Acquisitions Event Management, Inc.