Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources and Method

Invitation: For You Who Do This Work

Part I. Vocation as Path
Chapter 1. The Healing Vocation
Chapter 2. On Depletion and Burnout: Reframing the Darkness
Chapter 3. How Breakthrough Happens: The Mutuality of Healing
Chapter 4. The Practice of Replenishment and Renewal: Core Exercises
Chapter 5. In Conclusion: On Healing Presence and Gratitude

Part II. The Dialogues: Deepening Capacity
Dialogue 1. Honing the Exercises
Dialogue 2. The Exercises as Spiritual Disciplines
Dialogue 3. The Essential Skill of Advocacy
Dialogue 4. The Field of Suffering Is the Field of Healing
Dialogue 5. The Fulcrum and the Great Compassion

Appendix: A Practice Calendar
References
Index

About the Author

David Schenck is the former Director of the Ethics Program, Medical University of South Carolina, and was on the faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is co-author of two books that approach ethics and healing in healthcare from an empirical perspective, Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work (Oxford, 2015) and What Patients Teach: Everyday Ethics of Healthcare
(Oxford, 2013). Schenck taught philosophy and religion for 20 years and has published widely in bioethics, philosophy, and religious studies. He was founding executive director of a free medical clinic, healthcare advocate for the homeless,
and a 25-year hospice volunteer.

Scott Neely is minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg, South Carolina. He serves as strategist for Speaking Down Barriers, an organization that uses art and facilitated dialogue to build our life together across differences that divide us. He has helped develop LGBTQ Theologies--a network of congregations supporting LGBTQ+ people and issues in Upstate South Carolina, and the Fund to Support Latinx Immigrants--a state-wide coalition providing direct
assistance to immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has taught at the University of South Carolina-Upstate and Wofford College.