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Annual Convention

Annual Convention 2023

Registration for the convention is at queenshouse.org

The TRC presentation with Chief Littlechild and Fr. Ken Thorson OMI will take place on Thursday Oct. 26th at St. Philip Neri Catholic parish and is open to the general public. Doors open at 6:30 pm, presentation starts at 7:00 pm. No registration required. Suggested donation of $10 at the door.

Annual Convention 2022

Annual Convention 2021

October 21-22, 2021

with talks at 10AM and 2PM Daily
As a thank you to all of our healthcare workers registration is FREE!

2021 Conference Video Archive

Missed the conference, you can watch the key speakers below.

Michelle O’Rourke @ 2021 CHAS Convention

In this video, Michelle O’Rourke speaks on Caring for Ourselves When We Care for Others. Being a health care provider can be exhausting emotionally, physically and spiritually. The Pandemic has augmented these challenges exponentially, leaving staff at risk for issues such as burnout, fatigue and moral distress. Join us as we explore strategies to maintain wellness both personally and professionally during this difficult time. This was the final keynote of the 2021 CHAS Convention, “Healthy 2020 Vision: Seeing Our Mission Clearly”.

Sr. Teresita Kambeitz @ 2021 CHAS Convention

At the 2021 Annual Convention of the Catholic Health Association of Saskatchewan, Sr. Teresita Kambeitz speaks on the history and legacy of the Grey Nuns and their role in the formation of Saskatchewan’s earliest hospitals.

Dr. Megan Engel

Speaking to the participants of the 2021 Annual Convention of the Catholic Health Association of Saskatchewan, Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Megan Engel shares her story of faith and reason in her talk, “How I Learned to Praise God with Lasers”.

Dr. Gordon Self @ CHAS

Dr. Gordon Self speaks to the participants at the 2021 Annual Convention of the Catholic Health Association of Saskatchewan. The title of his presentation is, “Seeing and Embracing Mission as Journey”.

October 21 @ 10AM: Sr. Teresita Kambeitz – The Legacy of the Grey Nuns
How did a handful of courageous nuns ignite healthcare in Western Canada and how is their mission still relevant?

Sr.Teresita Kambeitz OSU a teacher of teachers.  She is an Ursuline of Prelate who teaches theology to teachers pursuing their Masters of Religious Education degree.  She also taught in the Lay Formation program at Queen’s House and gives talks and retreats in the diocese and beyond.  She is a former professor at Newman Theological College in Edmonton and St. Thomas More College in Saskatoon, and taught for many years at Holy Cross High School, also in Saskatoon.  She has given summer courses for teachers in the British Virgin Islands, Barbados, Venezuela, Latvia and South Africa.  She grew up in the village of Richmound in SW Saskatchewan, in a family of two parents, four sisters and four brothers.  There are 12 teachers in her family.

October 21 @ 2PM Megan Engel – Deus ex Scientia: How I learned to Praise God with Lasers
This Rhodes Scholar’s narrative on investigating the use of machine learning techniques in understanding bimolecular self-assembly. She will share on the intersection of God and Science.

Dr. Megan Engel is a Rhodes Scholar who is now at Harvard studying diseases that result when genetic building processes go awry.  Megan says, “I am interested in the statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium physics of biological systems, with a special focus on biomolecular folding and nanotechnology. I hope to use my postdoctoral position to learn some machine learning techniques that can be profitably applied to biophysical questions.”

October 22@10AM Gordon Self – Seeing and Embracing Mission as Journey
Mission requires opening our eyes to the needs around us, as well as embracing our own vulnerability to respond.

Gordon Self is the Chief Mission & Ethics Officer for Covenant Health in Alberta. He provides ethical reflection and leadership on issues impacting vulnerable communities, including newborn safe havens and addiction strategies. He considers himself an adopted brother of a Vietnamese family who made the perilous boat crossing to Canada in 1979, which inspired his first novel. Gordon’s second novel drew readers insider the lives of a physician couple, and their experience coping with pregnancy loss and disenfranchised grief.  Set in rural Iowa, the novel is a poignant and moving story of fidelity and vulnerability that will touch any parent who has known what it is like to lose a child, and the often parallel journey of grief a couple must walk in hope of ever finding themselves again.

October 22@2PM Michelle O’Rourke, RN – Caring for Ourselves When We Care of Others
Being a health care provider can be exhausting emotionally, physically, and spiritually. The Pandemic has augmented these challenges exponentially, leaving staff to risk for issues such as burnout, fatigue, and moral distress.

Michelle O’Rourke RN MA is a nurse with an extensive background including Emergency Nursing, Parish Nursing, Hospice Palliative Care and Spirituality.  She also spent 16 years in lay ministry with the RC Diocese of London, ON. Michelle is the author of two books on dying and palliative care, and helped to design, build and open a ten-bed residential hospice before retiring to focus on education and consulting.

A sought-after speaker, Michelle has recently published ‘Healthy Caregiving:  Perspectives for Caring Professionals, in company with Henri Nouwen’ (Novalis, 2020) and will help us to focus on personal wellness as we care for others.  More info about Michelle’s work can be found at www.selahresources.ca