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The East Central Community of Practice is pleased to announce its speakers for our 2025 Fall Gathering featuring guest speaker:
“Respecting Our Body Knowledge as a Healing and Liberative Practice”
Rev. Dr. Bridget Piggue
Agenda:
Thursday
8:30-10:30 Bridget Piggue
10:45-11:45: Discussion on intersectionality, JEDIA, and curriculum
12:00-1:00: Lunch (provided) Tomato Lasagna (vegetarian), Garden Salad, Tea, Water, Coffee, Decaf
1:30-2:30: Consultation available
2:30-3:30: Consultation available
3:30-6:00 Break
6:00-8:30: Dinner (provided) Portobello Mushroom Ravioli (vegetarian), Tomato Florentine Soup, White Chocolate Cheesecake; Tea, Water, Coffee, Decaf
Friday
8:30-9:30 Collette?
9:45-10:45: Business Meeting
Ben Iten
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Bridget L. Piggue, ThD
Director of Spiritual Health, EUHM
Emory University Hospital
Bridget L. Piggue, Th.D. is a leader and educator in the field of Pastoral Theology, Care & Counseling. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin; her Master of Divinity in Pastoral Care & Counseling from the Interdenominational Theological Center; and her Doctor of Theology in Pastoral Care and Counseling from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, where she also serves as adjunct professor.
Dr. Piggue is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and an ACPE Clinical Pastoral Educator. With over twenty-six years of tenure at Emory she serves as the Director of Spiritual Health at Emory University Hospital Midtown where she leads a staff of chaplains in the spiritual care of those who encounter trauma and crisis within and beyond the clinical setting. Dr. Piggue also serves as Director of Operations for the Spiritual Health Department system wide.
Her book, Our Bodies Are Alive: Self-Literacy as an Embodied Healing and Liberative Practice was published this Spring 2025. It has served to empower others and to inform sermons, lectures, seminars and retreats on the important and necessary work of healing as a spiritual leader.