Caritas Healing Connections

December 20, 2025 | Agenda & Theme

We invite you to join us monthly for a chance to return to your Caritas Community to share and reconnect.

Reasons for the Season

Presenter: Patti O’Rourke, MSN, RN, LMBT, BC, CCRN, CHPN, HN-BC,HWNC-BC, NBC-HWC, RM

About Presentation: Bring a candle and celebrate your light! We'll be exploring various celebrations.

Bio: Patti O’Rourke is a passionate lifelong learner with an impressive 60-year career in nursing and counting! She is a joyologist, nurse healer, educator, mentor, and coach.

Patti's diverse experience spans critical care and psychiatric nursing across civilian settings, the Navy, and the VA. She has also excelled as an educator, teaching in diploma programs, community colleges, universities, clinical settings, local hospitals, senior centers, and libraries. For over 40 years, Patti has practiced complementary modalities with anyone willing, whether they are patients, their families, friends, or staff.

Her legacy goal is to instill her love of nursing in others. Patti also enjoys connecting with nature, feeding birds, squirrels, and feral cats, and delights in singing and dancing.

Schedule

Free. Available to all. Every 3rd Saturday of the month. One hour.

~ 8am Pacific (California Time) 
~ 9am Mountain
~ 10am Central
~ 11am Eastern (Miami Time)

Zoom Link:  watsoncaringscience.org/CHC

2025 Dates
  • Nov 15, 2025
  • Dec 20, 2025
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2025 Caritas Healing Connections Library
Facilitated for WCSI by:

Carole Bergin, Retired RN, CHTP/I, Catechist of the Good Shepherd. Co-teach Healing Touch Classes for nurses, provide Healing Touch sessions for cancer survivors, teach Children's Liturgy, act as a hospital Eucharistic Minister, and visit a local retirement community for prayer circle.

Patti O’Rourke, MSN, RN, LMBT, BC, CCRN, CHPN, HN-BC, HWNC-BC, NBC-HWC, RM: She is a passionate lifelong learner with an impressive 60-year career in nursing and counting! 😊 She is a joyologist, nurse healer, educator, mentor, and coach.

Got an agenda item?

 Contact info@watsoncaringscience.org.

Mission

To create a sacred and safe space for the Caring Science community to share healing modalities (i.e. Caritas moments, healing poems, meditation, yoga, music, etc.), and connect with one another.

Goals
  • Hold a monthly 1 hour zoom session with a set structure
  • Allow for 10-15 minutes of open sharing at the end
  • Have a group of moderators to organize and facilitate each session (rotate)
  • Assign 1 moderator per session/set a schedule for 6 months
Structure of Each Session
  • Opening reflection, calling us to the space in stillness and presence (by moderator/facilitator)
  • Offer space for a maximum of 3 healing, sharing moments of 5-10 minutes each
  • Open sharing time around 10-15 minutes
  • Closing (5 minutes)
Disclaimer
  • Caritas Healing Connection sessions are not an alternative for professional therapy or training.
  • We celebrate each other but this is not a space to showcase professional achievements.
Participation Request

To put your name forward to offer either a modality/reading or to facilitate please contact us info@watsoncaringscience.org.

Thank you!

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