Foundations in Spiritual Midwifery
A Four-Session Online Course with Chaplain Stephen Faller
Tuesdays, December 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2026
8:00–9:30 PM Eastern | Live on Zoom
Tuition: $150 for the complete series
Spiritual Midwifery is a disciplined way of helping another person bring forth the meaning already stirring within them. Rather than beginning with answers, interpretations, or solutions, the spiritual caregiver learns to listen for what is emerging through story, silence, grief, resistance, faith, and contradiction.
Designed for chaplains, clergy, CPE students, spiritual directors, therapists, pastoral caregivers, and others engaged in the care of persons, the series moves from the foundational metaphor of midwifery to its logic, practical techniques, and vocational significance.
The Four Sessions
December 1 — Midwife, Baby, Medicine
The foundational metaphor and relationships of spiritual midwifery.
December 8 — Midwifery as Inductive Logic
Listening for emerging meaning rather than imposing predetermined answers.
December 15 — Key Techniques of Spiritual Midwifery
Presence and absence, questioning, parable, kenosis, advance and retreat.
December 22 — Why Midwifery?
The ethical, spiritual, and vocational significance of helping without taking over.
Your $150 Registration Includes:
- All four live, 90-minute Zoom sessions (six hours of instruction)
- A copy of The Art of Spiritual Midwifery by Chaplain Stephen Faller
- PDF copies of the course slide presentations
- Access to session recordings for 30 days
- A Certificate of Completion
- Discounts on future courses offered by the Institute for Spiritual Midwifery
Registration covers the entire four-session series. Individual sessions are not offered separately.
Register for the complete series here.
Presented by The Institute for Spiritual Midwifery
Chaplain Stephen Faller, Founder and Instructor
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