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Health and Support Track:
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The healthcare track consists of a series of panels and workshops that highlight the activities and resources available within the virtual world of Second Life to
help keep us healthy in real life.

Second Life Health Resources Tour and Challenges/Solutions to using SL for Healthcare (Workshop)
Workshop Leader: Bri Gufler
Time: Thursday August 13 – 2:00PM - 3:30PM

Health Outreach and Support in Second Life
Panel Members: Treasure Ballinger, Ricken Flow, Pathfinder Linden, Poppy Zabelin
Time: Saturday August 15 – 10:00AM -11:30AM

Accessibility to and Benefits of Second Life
Panel Members: Gentle Heron, Louise Later, Pathfinder Linden, Charles Mountain, Saxet Uralia
Time: Sunday August 16 – 10:00AM -11:30AM

Conducting a Clinical Study in Second Life
Panel Members: Cooksbranch Chowderhead (Dr. Daniel Hoch), Filthy Fluno, Emmet Watkin
Time: Friday August 14 – 2:00PM -3:30PM

The Virtual Helping Hands Team and Max the Virtual Guide Dog Demonstrate Accessibility (Workshop)
Workshop Leaders: Louise Later, Jolie1 Magic, Charles Mountain, Saxet Uralia
Time: Sunday August 16 – 11:30AM-1:00PM

Stories Without Borders™: Tapping the Healing Potential of Story Quests in Second Life (Workshop)
Workshop Leaders: Jenaia Morane, Marty Snowpaw
Time: Friday August 14 – 11:00AM-1:00PM

Real Help from Virtual Worlds (Workshop)
Workshop Leader: Coughran Mayo
Time: Saturday August 15 – 11:30AM – 1:00PM

The Benefits Of Virtual Worlds For The Physically Disabled
James Larken Smith (Jameslarken Supply in SL)
Sunday, August 16, 1PM

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Second Life Symposium: Therapy versus Tragedy: A Biblical Approach to Mental Health
When: Thursday, December 4, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. SLT (PST)
Where: Second Life Institute for Clinician Education (SLICE2)
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aido%20Wedo/166/62/39

Much of traditional contemporary psychotherapy is based on a Greek interpretation of relationships and approach to mental health. Dr. Kalman J. Kaplan, Director of the Program for Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine has long espoused a paradigm shift involving the replacement of Greek master stories in psychotherapy with a more positive approach based on biblical stories. Dr. Kaplan and his colleague, Elizabeth Jones, teach an online course on “A Biblical Approach to Mental Health” at UIC (see “http://www.rsmh.org”) for health care professionals and counselors.

Dr. Kaplan will bring this discussion to the Second Life community on Thursday, December 4, 2008 with a symposium entitled “Therapy versus Tragedy.” A brief presentation (slides and voice) will be followed by discussion of the topics presented with participants using text chat. This activity is intended for those who are involved in counseling or healthcare and might include psychologists, counselors, hospice workers, nurses, social workers, and chaplains as well as students and other care givers but all interested avatars are welcome to register. It would be especially interesting to have some of you who are currently engaged in SL counseling activities to join the discussion.

Participation in the symposium will be limited to the first ten individuals to register. There is no fee to register, just send an email to symposium@uic-online.info with your real name, role, institution, email address, and your avatar’s name so that you can be provided with access to Thursday’s symposium.

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On Saturday evening, August 2, the ASA-SL will host its weekly meeting.

This week our speaker will be Gentle Heron. Gentle is a volunteer for Virtual Ability, Inc. VAI helps bring people with many kinds of RL disabilities-mental, emotional, and physical-into Second Life, and provides them with a support community. www.VirtualAbility.org. Ms Heron is also a co-founder of The Heron Sanctuary.

The meeting will be at the ASA-SL office at 5:00 PM SLT.

Brett Stand
President of ASA-SL

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