24 wise and compassionate Buddhist perspectives on crisis care--contemplative practices and spiritual principles to help individuals, families, and communities in crisis and the care providers who support them.

Refuge in the Storm presents a wide range of Buddhist perspectives on crisis care. Written by experienced chaplains, spiritual teachers, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, medical providers, and scholars, the essays in this timely anthology explore a spectrum of personal and global crises: climate chaos, COVID, natural disasters, racism, social inequity, illness, and dying.

Drawing on Buddhist principles and practices, these essays offer a wealth of insights for supporting individuals and communities in crisis as well as preventing fatigue and burnout in care providers. The 24 essays in this anthology show readers how to:

• Provide spiritual companionship to ill, aging, and dying clients
• Infuse crisis care with mindfulness, compassion, prayer, and even playfulness
• Prevent burnout with self-care practices rooted in Buddhist principles
• Develop self-awareness and self-knowledge as a care provider
• Pursue the path of Buddhist chaplaincy

Refuge in the Storm Buddhist: Voices in Crisis Care, Nathan Jishin Michon (Editor), North Atlantic Books, Paperback, 288 Pages, $18.95

Rev. Dr. Nathan Jishin Michon is a Shingon Buddhist priest, interfaith minister, chaplain, and scholar. Jishin completed their PhD in religious studies at Graduate Theological Union and MDiv in Buddhist chaplaincy at University of the West. During the pandemic, Jishin worked with hospice and memory care residents of a nursing home. Jishin specializes in crisis and disaster care and completed Fulbright research in Japan, examining the development of Buddhist chaplaincy there since the tsunami of 2011. During Jishin�s years in Japan, they cared for tsunami survivors while also traveling the country interviewing leaders of Buddhist chaplaincy programs and observing their different chaplain training courses. Among other works, Jishin is the editor of A Thousand Hands: A Guidebook to Caring for Buddhists in your Community, co-author of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion entry on �Buddhist Chaplaincy,� and editor of the forthcoming Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care. On the side, they are co-director of interfaith ministry education for Unity and Diversity World Council. Jishin has lived in seven countries and previously trained extensively in Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Tradition before ordaining within the Shingon tradition.