BTS Climate Conscious Chaplaincy Initiative

Navigating Climate Spiritual Care
A Learning Community for chaplains, pastors, educators, lay leaders, and spiritual seekers
October 2024 – March 2025
Mondays • 7.00 – 8.30pm (Eastern) • Online

Spiritual care in this time of climate change — with so many social, emotional, and spiritual
consequences resulting from such instability — is both deeply necessary and, in many ways,
uncharted territory.

The BTS Center is pleased to offer this learning community, originally developed in an
asynchronous format by our friends Jessica Morthorpe and Blair Nelsen, and offered by our
partner  Waterspirit. We will engage Waterspirit’s materials together as a learning community, guided by two hosts and facilitators, meeting twice each month to deepen our understanding of the physical, emotional, mental health, and spiritual impacts of the climate crisis, and to
explore how to address these impacts through the practice of spiritual care.

In this learning community, participants will explore a range of resources for addressing the climate crisis within their chosen vocations. Together we will navigate this landscape by drawing on already-established spiritual care skills and wisdom that we bring to this work as practitioners, and which can reassure us of our preparedness for the challenge. For more
information and to apply, visit thebtscenter.org