Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | 7:00-8:30PM (ET) | Hybrid Lecture
Location:
Boston College (Room 100, Gasson Hall at Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467) and Online via Zoom
If you plan to attend online with or without CE's, please register through this link and register through Zoom (hyperlinked).
If you plan to join in-person and apply for CE's, please make sure to register through this link AND EventBrite (hyperlinked). Seats are limited and first come, first serve.
If you plan to attend in-person with no CE's, please only register through Eventbrite.
Cost:
This event is free to the public, please use the promotional code FRANK25 to register at no cost.
This event is $25 for practitioners seeking CEs for this lecture. As per the credentialing bodies, we can only grant CEs for synchronous attendance of events (online or in-person). Please pay and register for the lecture so that we may keep track of your attendance. Your CE registration status may not be changed after the event.
Description:
Living with suffering involves, not exclusively but significantly, a person narrating their suffering and through narrations coming to a renewed understanding of self. What is involved is more than a reassessment of the claims on which a person grounds their identity. Also at issue is the nature of self itself: its substantiality and insubstantiality.
In this presentation, Dr. Arthur Frank will present on Shakespeare’s plays to exemplify how literature can offer resources for living with suffering. First, the plays catalog sufferings in their multiple forms; these forms can be called comic, tragic, and historical. Second, the plays offer a language that expresses suffering without evasion, but that offers consolation. And third, without advising how to live with suffering, Shakespeare’s plots and characters offer models of such living; his characters can be companions in Suffering.
Learning Objectives:
- Compare between specific sufferings that can be articulated (e.g., loss, grief, betrayal) and non-specific or existential suffering.
- Assess and develop clients’ narrative resources for articulating their suffering and thus learning to live with it.
- Identify specific strategies for utilizing literature in clinical work, using the example of Shakespeare.
Timeline and Requirements:
This lecture is presenter-led and is a hybrid experience. This will be conducted synchronously online and in person at Boston College and Online via Zoom from 7:00-8:30PM (ET).
CE Sponsorship:
Participants must attend the lecture in full and complete the post-event survey to be eligible to receive CEs. This lecture does not offer CEs for other clinicians not listed below.
University Counseling Services of Boston College is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. As a co-sponsor of this program, University Counseling Services of Boston College maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Participants will be eligible to receive 1.5 CE units from University Counseling Services of Boston College.
This program has been approved for 1.5 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. NASW-MA Chapter CE Approval Program Authorization Number D 92910-2.
The Lynch School of Education and Human Development is providing sponsorship for CEUs for Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHC). Participants will be eligible to receive 1.5 CE units. These credits are accepted by the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Licensed Mental Health Counselors (Category I contact hours in Content Area I).
Fees & Policies:
This event is free if you are NOT seeking CEs towards your license. If you plan on seeking CEs for this lecture, the cost is $25. Once you have registered for the class, your CE registration status is fixed and can not be adjusted at a later time.
Payment is due by credit card at registration. Registration closes March 12 at 7pm. Refunds will be granted only up to the time of the lecture.
This workshop is made possible through the support of Grant 62632 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed by these presenters do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals to engage fully. If you need to request an accommodation or ask a question about accessibility, please contact lynchschoolpce@bc.edu.
Additional offerings from the Lynch School Professional & Continuing Education Office can be found on our website.
