Crossroads Community Hospice, a program of Albert Lea Medical Center, is hosting a free workshop, “Keep Hope Pale,” Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2 to 4 p.m., at the Marion Ross Performing Arts Center, 147 N. Broadway, Albert Lea. CEUs available.

The workshop will describe the positive and negative aspects of hope; identify circumstances that foster hope; explore, using personal life experience, the question: “Is hope a necessity or merely a pleasure?” and examine other options for when hope gets in the way of living in the present.

“Keep Hope Pale” will be presented by Jeffrey Burnoski, M.Div., a Lutheran pastor of the ELCA and Chaplain with North Memorial Medical Center’s Hospice program. Burnoski has studied and developed throughout his professional life the theme of spirituality of grief and how it informs the human heart. Grief teaches us what we love and love gives us hope.

The workshop is open to all community members including nurses, social workers, funeral directors and clergy. Registration is required. Call Crossroads Community Hospice at 507-377-6393