The Spirituality in Health Care Network (SHCN) is a network of professionals and spiritual leaders dedicated to integrating Spirituality with Psychotherapy and Health Care. SHCN was founded December 2000, in Toronto, Canada, by Yvonne Kason MD and John Thornton MD together with a group of over 50 founding members. It was unanimously agreed that SHCN would be a bridging network, a forum for spiritually oriented health-care professionals of diverse specialty and training and spiritual leaders of all affiliations to explore the integration of spiritual traditions and practices into health-care. SHCN's Goals are:1. To promote supportive dialogue and networking between health-care professionals, therapists, academics, researchers, and clergy of all affiliations interested in integrating Spirtuality with Psychotherapy and Health Care; 2. To provide educational opportunities via informal evening network meetings with speakers from within the network and with small group discussions; 3. To facilitate communication between network members regarding conferences and events of mutual interest via an email newsgroup; 4. to foster the field of spirituality and health care by holding at least one full day meeting/conference per year with multiple speakers on various aspects of spirituality and health; and 5. To honor the network's broad-based spiritual focus by opening and closing meetings with a sacred ritual from diverse spiritual traditions. SHCN Ontario invites and encourages professionals living in other regions to start a local branch of the network and to hold local network meetings.