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  • 1.  Life Care Planning Summit- Additional Hotel Block!

    Posted 03-11-2025 10:18

    Good morning- There is exciting news!  We are looking forward to the IALCP Life Care Planning Summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota, scheduled for May 16,17 2025 at the McNamara Alumni Center.  There are 70 participants already registered! Due to this robust response, the original hotel block sold out earlier than anticipated.  Your Summit Committee, along with IARP, has been hard at work to secure an additional hotel block.  

    We have contracted with the Courtyard Marriott hotel. It is 1 mile from the venue.  The hotel has thrown in a free Lyft (one-way) per day! The hotel is also on the rail line and the venue is 1 stop up from the hotel so there are many options.  It is also a beautiful walk should you choose.  The rate is $199.00 per night- a good rate! There are 20 rooms contracted so sign up soon! If these also sell out, we will attempt to add additional rooms, but this cannot be guaranteed. 

    The link to register is here, and will soon be up on the IARP

    web site.  Thank you! Brook 

    Thank you for choosing the Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown for your group accommodations! To help your guests secure their reservations, they can either:

    1. Call (877-699-3216) and mention the group name 'IALCP Summit 2025', or
    2. Book online using the attached reservation link: Book your group rate for IALCP Summit 2025



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    Brook Feerick
    RN, CCM, CLCP, ICCCP(F)
    brook@feerickrn.com
    San Diego, CA United States
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  • 2.  RE: Life Care Planning Summit- Additional Hotel Block!

    Posted 03-11-2025 10:22
    That's great news Brook!  Thank you for securing that for extra folks!!  I'm glad they will provide transport! 



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  • 3.  RE: Life Care Planning Summit- Additional Hotel Block!

    Posted 03-22-2025 13:12
    This is a joint posting by Cloie B. Johnson, M.Ed., CCM, ABVE-D and Christine (Chris) Reid, Ph.D., CRC, CLCP.  

    We both strongly encourage all practicing life care planners to participate in the upcoming Life Care Planning Summit.  Your participation and active involvement in the methodologically sound Delphi process/nominal group technique method to be used at the Summit is important for continuing to update the evidence base supporting professional practice in this specialty.  If you can participate, please do!

    For those who haven't met either or both of us yet, here is an introduction:  Cloie Johnson is a past Chair of the International Academy of Life Care Planners, and is a member of the planning committee for the 2025 Life Care Planning Summit.  Chris Reid is a professor, research methodologist, and one of the founding members of the Foundation for Life Care Planning Research.  Both of us are practicing life care planners and vocational experts.  As concerns were expressed early on, together we have worked to ensure this Summit will, like past Summits, promote unity through an appropriate methodology which ensures all participants' voices are heard. Past concerns regarding this methodology have now been addressed, resulting in this joint post.

    Some of the concerned researchers and some key leaders related to Life Care Planning practice, including representation from the Summit planning committee, met to discuss concerns about a recently disseminated survey.  Together, we clarified that the survey, while perhaps helpful in confirming to the planning committee that there is no consensus in the field about those issues, will not be used as part of the actual Summit process.  Instead, a methodologically sound Delphi process/nominal group technique method, as was used in previous Summits, will be used.  This iterative process involves discussion, initial voting, feedback with results of the voting, further discussion informed by consideration of divergent viewpoints, additional voting, etc.  Key to this process is discussion, to thoroughly consider different perspectives about the pros and cons of a proposal, as part of the process of building consensus.  

    Cloie and Chris discussed how to address some concerns identified by the Summit planning committee, in a way that is most likely to effectively and efficiently address these issues in a methodologically sound manner, following the Delphi process/nominal group technique method successfully used in previous Summits.  The Summit planning committee subsequently met and enthusiastically agreed to this approach.  So, without reservation, both of us now heartily encourage all practicing life care planners who are able to participate in the Summit to do so!

    - Cloie B. Johnson, M.Ed., CCM, ABVE-D and Christine (Chris) Reid, Ph.D., CRC, CLCP

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  • 4.  RE: Life Care Planning Summit- Additional Hotel Block!

    Posted 03-22-2025 14:11
    Cloie and Chris

    Thank you for sharing this information. While I had decided to attend regardless of any community discourse, it is encouraging to see that this dialogue occurred and that those involved at the highest level of both planning and the research professionals could come together and have the tough conversations. I am now much more excited about Summit than I was prior and really look forward to getting to work and finding common ground amongst Life Care Planners. 



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