Karl B. Wilson, Sr., Dmin, Cfsp, Gc-C Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Maywood, Illinois, United States

Facilitate monthly grief support group.

Perform all duties associated with Funeral Director licensure, including facilitating Funeral Arrangement Conference, directing funerals, memorials and assuming responsibilities related to the final disposition of human remains.Continuing Education presenter for funeral director and embalmer licensure renewal.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Provide spiritual leadership and grief support to client and community related individuals and families. Serve as Funeral Celebrant, including planning and officiating funerals and memorial celebrations as well as continuing care support. Conduct personalized life celebrations and serve as a chapel musician upon request. Facilitate on-site weekly grief support group.

Presenter on End-of-Life, Death and Funeral Service related topics to religious and community groups. Teach Continuing Education Units for funeral directors' licensure renewal. Developed, employ and teach funeral directors an approach to family grief support utilizing a creative storytelling model during the Funeral Arrangement Conference. PRESENTATIONS:“Navigating the Death Care Industry: Traditional and Creative Options”. An in-service given to staff chaplains and social workers at Unity Hospice - 8/26/24“Good Grief: Growing Through Life Losses" - A.A. Rayner Funeral Home - 12/2023"What's Eating You? - Compassion Fatigue & Stress Management" - A.A. Rayner Funeral Home - 3/2023“The Truth About Grief" - First Baptist Church of Glenwood -12/2022"Managing Your Grief Through the Holidays" - A.A. Rayner & Sons Funeral Home - 12/2021"The Currency of Compa$$ion" - Malcolm X College (2016); ISMA (2018); Ivy Technical College - 4/2018“Hospice: Life Before Death" - Ivy Technical College - 2/2015; The Lakes Partnership - 6/2018“The Role of the Chaplain at Death..." - UChicago Medicine / Vitas Hospice - 4/2017"The Final Destination: Options for the Disposition of Human Remains" - St. Matthews UMC - 10/2017 Advocate Christ Medical Center - 9/2018“The Funeral Director as Grief Facilitator" - The Lakes Partnership - 5/2016, 5/2017"Dying at Old Age: A Brief Case Study" - Social Science Class, Wilbur Wright College - 3/2016“Matters of Life and Death" - Bryn Mawr Community Church, UCC - 11/2016"Self-Care - Caring for the Caregiver" - Black Methodists for Church Renewal - 9/2016

Chicago, Il

Developed and facilitated weekly interactive interdenominational Christian worship experience, including music, liturgy, and sermon. Provided spiritual care for patients, families, and staff. Provided music for a variety of special and seasonal occasions. Provided emotional and spiritual support to medical and auxiliary staff upon request.Shirley Ryan Ability Lab is an internationally recognized rehabilitation and research hospital specializing in traumatic brain, spinal cord and other severe life challenging injuries.

Chicago, Il

Conducted personalized life celebrations and provide grief support, referral and serve as a chapel musician upon request.Provided leadership as a dual licensed funeral service professional, including all aspects associated with arranging funerals, memorials and body donations to science, and necessary preparations for the final disposition of human remains. Facilitate the completion and filing of all relevant documents including death certificate. Provided a creative approach to working with families during the Arrangement Conference, including opportunities for families to begin grief processing.

Facilitated collaborative leadership with United Church of Christ clergy and their congregations around issues of professional and spiritual growth and church revitalization. Provided focused coaching sessions with pastors and their TPIRC (Thriving Pastors In Revitalizing Congregations) leadership team — a supportive ministry funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.

Chicago, Il

Served as a member of the Interdisciplinary Violence Recovery Team which encompassed spiritual and emotional crisis intervention for patients and families. Provided supportive resources to staff, including affirmation, intervention and opportunities for debriefing after traumas and deaths. Provided spiritual presence, leadership and support to adult and pediatric trauma centers.UChicago Medicine's Spiritual Care slogan winner: "A Caring Presence at Every Stage of Life" (2018).Featured speaker in UChicago Medicine's media presentation focusing on the role and importance of diversity; filmed during Pride Values Week, Nov. 2018.Presenter and panelist on the topic of Resilience (Compassion Fatigue and Burnout) at UChicago Medicine before a group of physicians, residents and medical students at Pritzker School of Medicine, January 2019.

Chicago, Il

Responded to all overnight routine requests for a chaplain as well as emergencies requiring spiritual care intervention. Responsible for all hospitals on the medical center's campus (Comer Children's Hospital and Bernard Mitchell Hospital), including ER, Adult and Pediatric Level I & II traumas.

Chicago, Il

Provided end-of-life spiritual support for hospice patients and families, including leadership in bereavement support groups and children's grief camps. Facilitated hospice sign-on and Life Celebration discussions with patients and families. Provided spiritual care and leadership at Vitas In-Patient Unit at Mercy Hospital. Provided education regarding cost-effective and alternative options for the final disposition of loved one's remains. Served as a supportive resource to hospice staff, and a liaison for community clergy and other supportive entities. Received Vitas Best Award 2016 - a national honor awarded for excellence in patient care and interdisciplinary team support.

South Shore Community In Chicago, Il

Provided spiritual leadership to a 150+ member Christian congregation in the South Shore community of Chicago. Led efforts to create and support youth initiatives designed to provide opportunities for self-awareness, creative expression, leadership development and spiritual growth. Facilitated the successful establishment of ministry to urban youth as a church-wide priority. Addressed issues affecting the community at large, providing such resources as food, clothing, ministry to prison inmates and those re-entering society, family and marriage counseling and men's health initiatives. Supported church's music ministry as organist and keyboardist.

Education record

Completed ACC Pathway and additional coach specific training

Hospital Chaplain Residency - Completed 4 Units Of Acpe Certified Clinical Training

Associate Of Applied Science (Aas), Graduated Top 10% Of Class.

Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma EtaTraining and State of Illinois licensure as a Funeral Director and Embalmer

Certificate, Marriage & Family Therapy - 12 Month Pre-Professional Clinical Training Program

Doctor Of Ministry (D.Min.) / Spiritual Care & Counseling

Master Of Divinity (M.Div.) / Spiritual Care & Counseling

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Religion / Psychology