“Words Matter”
In our changing awareness of language, how can we be sensitive to people who
are powerless, stigmatized, or marginalized? Where do we draw the line between
basic respect and the overreach of political correctness? Come explore these
issues around word choice and why it matters.
Kim Palmer serves the Emory University Woodruff Health Sciences Center as
the Manager of Research Projects in Spiritual Health. She is a board-certified
chaplain with over five years of clinical experience and earned an MSPH in
Epidemiology from Emory University as a Transforming Chaplaincy Research
Fellow. She is ordained in the Unitarian Universalist tradition and serves as an
affiliated community minister for a congregation in Roswell, GA. She is currently engaged in a multi-year, multistudy research effort to investigate the effect of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) on chaplains and the effect of CBCT-adapted interventions on patient and providers outcomes.
- Facilitator: Rev. Marsha Mitchiner
- Musician: William Chelton