Rev. Dr. Jacob Watson
Rev. Jacob Watson, D. Min. is an Interfaith minister and the founder and Abbot of the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine, an interfaith wisdom school offering a two year program of study and service for students seeking to deepen their spiritual lives and become ordained as interfaith ministers.
Jacob is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Beacon College, the University of Creation Spirituality and the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministries. He helped start Collins Brook School, an alternative day and boarding school, and the Center for Grieving Children, where he designed and delivered the Volunteer Training Program for five years.
He began Hospice work in 1985, and has been a Hospice Volunteer, Hospice Board member and trainer of Hospice staff and volunteers. For nine years he served as Chaplain for Community Health Services Hospice, and for Beacon Hospice.
For many years he was a grief counselor in private practice, focusing on the spiritual aspects of grief, and delivered grief and bereavement training workshops for agencies in Maine and New England.
He was a senior staff member of the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Center, and led residential Life, Death and Transition workshops nationally and overseas.
Jacob has presented workshops for the Maine Hospice Council, Beacon Hospice, Maine Medical Center, Outward Bound, Veteran’s Administration, Cancer Community Center, assisted living facilities, and the general public. He teaches classes on Religion and Spirituality at the University of Southern Maine, and is on the core faculty of the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine. He is a member of A World Alliance of Interfaith Clergy.
Jacob is the author of Morning Blessing Letters: A Book of Gifts, and several articles on grief and spiritual care.
Contact: (207) 761-2522 jacobw@gwi.net www.revjacobwatson.com
