Rev. Jürgen Schwing, M.A., BCC, is the Director of Spiritual Care at Kaiser Permanente's Diablo Service Area, which serves two hospitals and a hospice. The Walnut Creek Medical Center offers an ACPE-accredited Clinical Pastoral Education program, as a satellite of Stanford Hospital and Clinic's CPE program. Rev. Schwing is an ordaned UCC minister and a board certified chaplain whose work is rooted in the interfaith mystical journey and depth psychology. He has an M.A. in Religion and the Personality Sciences and received his clinical training as a spiritual counselor at Stanford Medical Center and the California Pacific Medical Center. Kaiser Permenente has featured his work in interfaith spiritual care in clinical video conferences throughout its system nationwide. He has taught at the Graduate Theological Union and has given presentations internationally, including in Germany and at the World Congress on Psychology and Spirituality in India, as well as at conferences of the Association of Prefessional Chaplains and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. (Disclaimer: Rev. Schwing's teaching at ChI, as well as his writings on the ChI website, are his own and not endorsed by Kaiser Permanente).
