William D. Roozeboom is adjunct professor of practical theology and spiritual care and counseling at Fuller Theological Seminary and Claremont School of Theology. He is also a certified pastoral counselor with the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC), a staff counselor and congregational and community liaison at Christian Counseling Service, and supervisory and interim pastor at Bethany Reformed Church.

• 1. Neuroscience: The Organizing System For Experience And Meaning-Making2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Understandings of Self3. A Working Theory of Wellness4. Performativity And Plasticity: Storying Self Bi-Directionally In The Embodied Brain Ecosystem5. Theoretical and Therapeutic Implications6. A Theraputic Framework: A Case for Short-Term Clincial Skills in Spiritual Care and Counseling Contexts

Roozeboom provides clergy, chaplains, and others engaged in pastoral care a window into the dramatic implications of neuroscience to help us better understand the embodied ecosystem within which the brain is highly responsive and intricately interrelated to spiritual, personal, and relational wellbeing. Roozeboom demonstrates the pivotal role for practices of self-care in this embodied ecosystem including not only renewing and supporting physical and spiritual well-being but also enhancing our capacities for the practice of neighbor love.

William D. Roozeboom is adjunct professor of practical theology and spiritual care and counseling at Fuller Theological Seminary and Claremont School of Theology. He is also a certified pastoral counselor with the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC), a staff counselor and congregational and community liaison at Christian Counseling Service, and supervisory and interim pastor at Bethany Reformed Church.

• 1. Neuroscience: The Organizing System For Experience And Meaning-Making2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Understandings of Self3. A Working Theory of Wellness4. Performativity And Plasticity: Storying Self Bi-Directionally In The Embodied Brain Ecosystem5. Theoretical and Therapeutic Implications6. A Theraputic Framework: A Case for Short-Term Clincial Skills in Spiritual Care and Counseling Contexts

Roozeboom provides clergy, chaplains, and others engaged in pastoral care a window into the dramatic implications of neuroscience to help us better understand the embodied ecosystem within which the brain is highly responsive and intricately interrelated to spiritual, personal, and relational wellbeing. Roozeboom demonstrates the pivotal role for practices of self-care in this embodied ecosystem including not only renewing and supporting physical and spiritual well-being but also enhancing our capacities for the practice of neighbor love.

William D. Roozeboom is adjunct professor of practical theology and spiritual care and counseling at Fuller Theological Seminary and Claremont School of Theology. He is also a certified pastoral counselor with the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC), a staff counselor and congregational and community liaison at Christian Counseling Service, and supervisory and interim pastor at Bethany Reformed Church.

• 1. Neuroscience: The Organizing System For Experience And Meaning-Making2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Understandings of Self3. A Working Theory of Wellness4. Performativity And Plasticity: Storying Self Bi-Directionally In The Embodied Brain Ecosystem5. Theoretical and Therapeutic Implications6. A Theraputic Framework: A Case for Short-Term Clincial Skills in Spiritual Care and Counseling Contexts

Roozeboom provides clergy, chaplains, and others engaged in pastoral care a window into the dramatic implications of neuroscience to help us better understand the embodied ecosystem within which the brain is highly responsive and intricately interrelated to spiritual, personal, and relational wellbeing. Roozeboom demonstrates the pivotal role for practices of self-care in this embodied ecosystem including not only renewing and supporting physical and spiritual well-being but also enhancing our capacities for the practice of neighbor love.