ADEC 32nd Annual Conference
Death, Dying and Bereavement:  It’s All About the Story
April 7-10, 2010
Hyatt Regency Crown Center
Kansas City, MO USA

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 Keynote Speakers

Britt Hysing-Dahl
Britt Hysing-Dahl is considered a pioneer within the field of hospice and palliative care in Norway. She is currently a clinical social worker at Bergen University Hospital working with seriously ill and dying patients. She is the CEO of the Norwegian Society Western Norway, CEO of the largest nursing home in Norway and City Counsellor of Bergen. Hysing-Dahl has been an active member of IWG for 25 years. After a serious cancer diagnosis, she is now a happy pensioner working on her new book, The Labyrinth of Life.

Thomas Lynch
Essayist, poet and funeral director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. He is regularly featured on the op-ed page of The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Times of London, as well as in the pages of Harper's and has appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC, the NBC Today Show and the PBS series "On Our Own Terms."

Robert Neimeyer, PhD
Professor and director of psychotherapy research in the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, editor of two respected international journals, Death Studies and the Journal of Constructivist Psychology and a former president of ADEC. The author of over 300 articles and book chapters, he is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process.

Conference Co-Chairs:
Harold Ivan Smith, DMin FT
Catherine Johnson, MA FT

Updated: June 10, 2009