Expanding the Space for Grief with J.S. Park
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, 7pm – 8:30pm ET
Our February webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership benefits.
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Webinar Guests:
Amanda Marie Ellis King, CFSP | Embalmer and Funeral Director, INELDA Trained-Doula
Jackie Naginey Hook, MA | Spiritual director, Celebrant, and INELDA_trained End-of-life Doula at Koch Funeral Home
Webinar Moderator:
Kimberly Stravers | INELDA Educator, Celebrant, and Former Funeral Attendant
Webinar Guest(s):
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Zeyneb Sayilgan, Ph.D. | Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS)
Please note that due to the Christmas holiday, our webinar schedule for December has been moved to the third week of the month. (This event typically meets on the final Wednesday of the month.)
Our September webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership benefits.
Recorded Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Webinar Guest:
J.S. Park | Chaplain & Author of “As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve”
Webinar Moderator:
Erika Lim | INELDA Educator
Every time I’ve sat with loss, I’ve gained something too. It’s never a thing I wanted, but it’s a thing that helped me survive. —J.S. Park
For this webinar, hospital chaplain J.S. Park, a self-described “grief catcher” and author of As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve, brought his vast experience consoling thousands of patients at bedside to our community conversation.
Many of us living and working in the deathcare space have discovered the willingness to confront and support others’ grief journeys. No stranger to grief himself, J.S. explored themes centering around our own capacity for grief. We explored questions such as “how do we hold space for the people in the room with us who are experiencing it?” “what do we do when we aren’t sure of how to meet their reactions?” and “how do we develop cultural competency when it comes to different expressions of grief and making room for them?” View our recording to experience this very special conversation.
Guest Speaker Bio:
J.S. Park is a hospital chaplain, published author, and online educator. For nine years he has been an interfaith chaplain at a 1000+ bed hospital that is designated a Level 1 Trauma Center. His role includes grief counseling, attending every death, every trauma and Code Blue, staff care, and supporting end-of-life care.
J.S. also served for three years as a chaplain at one of the largest nonprofit charities for the homeless on the east coast. J.S. has a MDiv completed in 2010 and a BA in Psychology. He also has a sixth-degree black belt. He is the author of As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve.
J.S. currently lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife, a nurse practitioner, and their daughter and son.
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The recording of this September 2023 webinar has been made available to all members as part of your INELDA membership benefits. Non-members who purchased access to this webinar may also view the recording.
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