Sacred Space - right relationship and spirituality in healthcare
by Stephen G Wright & Jean Sayre-Adams

Paperback
Second Edition - published February 2009

Many parts of our healthcare system have become devoid of a sense of the sacred, spirituality sidelined and relationships diminished by issues of power and control rather than caring and healing. One of the consequences is a sense of alienation and disconnection in organisations – between staff and the wider organisation, amongst teams and even within ourselves.

Sacred Space draws on a wide range of literature to look at what the sacred, spirituality and right relationship mean and their relevance to healthcare and is rooted in the rich experience of two of the UK’s leading experts in the field. Jean Sayre-Adams and Stephen Wright have a long history of working in healthcare, of teaching and practising the arts of healing and of working with individuals and groups who have become exhausted and burned out in their work. 

The dis-connection and dis-spiritedness of much of modern heath care can be tackled, as this book shows, by using “caring for the carers” approaches, integrating spirituality into healthcare and pursuing pathways to the sacred that support staff and patients in creating integrated and holistic healing environments.
  
It is this dis-connection and dis-spiritedness that is addressed in this book – looking at the causes and offering solutions grounded in practical and everyday possibilities to improve caring environments, reduce stress and burnout and create nurturing and wellbeing in the workplace and our personal lives. Through these the sense of the sacred can be restored, relationships renewed and refreshed, healthcare delivered more efficiently, effectively and humanely –for both patients and staff. The sense of alienation and separation can be overcome to enable people to relate more healthily to healthcare work, to each other, to ourselves and ultimately that which is beyond the self.
 
This book is a pathway towards right relationships for individuals, groups and organisations: restoring wholeness, healing and caring to modern healthcare.

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