NOVEMBER 15-17, 2025
Healing of Memories Workshop for Healthcare Workers
The Healing of Memories workshop is for healthcare workers who have experienced emotional, psychological and spiritual distress – in their personal or professional lives. This workshop provides a safe, confidential environment, the ideal setting to help participants take the necessary steps toward healing.
THE WORKSHOP IS FREE FOR QUALIFIED HEALTHCARE WORKERS.
Listening to others share their struggles, concerns, and hopes made me feel I am not alone.
Healing of Memories (HOM) workshops by the Institute for Healing of Memories were designed to respond to emotional, psychological, and spiritual wounds inflicted by war, human rights abuses and other traumatic circumstances. The workshop will provide the participants with a safe experiential and interactive way to address anger, loss, grief, and guilt. The workshop is free of charge to any current or former healthcare workers. This includes healthcare team leaders, managers, nurses, doctors, and facility staff, behavioral health workers, social workers, chaplains, administrators, EMTs, anyone who see patients, and those who provide direct professional support such as mental health advocates and technicians.
Healthcare workers who have attended this workshop say that it was a major step in their healing from their psychological and spiritual wounds. Participants find support, healing, increased trust, empathy, hope, relief, reassurance, and a sense of belonging.
The Healing of Memories Workshop was created by Father Michael Lapsley, an Anglican missionary priest, who in 1990 suffered the loss of his hands and the sight in one eye from a letter bomb that was sent to him in Zimbabwe by a supporter of the pro-apartheid government in South Africa. After a long recovery from the bombing, Father Lapsley decided to dedicate his life to helping victims of emotional, psychological, and spiritual wounds inflicted by war, human rights abuses, and other traumatic circumstances.
Raves for Healing of Memories Workshops for Healthcare Workers
- I felt connected and grounded.
- It was a healing experience.
- This helped me to release weighted emotional baggage, which will help me be a better nurse.
- The highlights for me were the reflective questions, the art “project” and the connections made.
- All of the facilitators have their hearts in the work.
- The workshop was encouraging and re-affirming. Thank you.
About the Facilitators
After starting her career as a successful family law attorney, Lori Rubenstein, JD, PCC, came to the understanding that the well-being of divorced families was clearly not the task of the legal system. She realized that she was like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole as a divorce attorney. Instead, she chose to follow her own mission – empowering people to heal from their relationship wounds, eventually becoming a certified coach. While seeking that goal, she learned that forgiveness truly is the cornerstone of all healing. On a personal level, Lori has been twice divorced and today is happily remarried. Her children are grown and she lives a life filled with love and laughter, walking her talk and always striving to make a difference in the world.
In addition to her private practice, Lori is a facilitator for Healing of Memories North America, teacher of Divorce Recovery Coaches for Impact Coaching Academy and is a facilitator for Northern Arizona Restorative Justice. Lori was a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children, is an Ambassador for Shared Hope International, a member of the Sedona Advocacy Team for FCNL (Friends Committee on National Legislation) and was a member of the board of the Sedona International City of Peace. She has a unique ability for holding sacred space for people to heal and mend their past, and to transcend their own “stories.” Inner peace, she teaches, starts with self-love, acceptance, non-judgment and self-compassion. She is the author of three transformational books, including the bestselling Forgiveness: Heal Your Past and Find the Peace YOU Deserve.
Lina Webb is a native of Okinawa, Japan with an MA in Human Services Counseling. She was a Korean linguist and analyst in the United States Air Force for 21 years. While active duty, she also became a Sexual Assault Victim Advocate, Resilience trainer and Crisis Intervention Unit Responder aiding victims of violent crimes and other mental health crisis. Her deep interest in generational trauma and the power of storytelling led her to become an authorized HOM facilitator in 2022.
WHEN
Saturday – Monday, November 15-17, 2025
Program begins with dinner at 6:00 pm
COST
FREE to qualified Healthcare Workers
APPLY FOR FREE ADMITTANCE TO WORKSHOP
Click link above to apply for this FREE weekend workshop at Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center in Carefree, Arizona. Call 480.488.5218 with questions. Space is limited. Applicants will be contacted well in advance to confirm their participation.
Workshops for Veterans
In addition to those workshops for Health Care Workers, Spirit in the Desert and the Institute for Healing of Memories offers workshops addressing PTSD and other trauma for Veterans and First Responders.