A monthly group for chaplain self-care
Chaplains are at the center of a swirl that is a constantly moving and evolving collection of chaotic conditions as they look after the spiritual well-being of those in their care.
What about your own spiritual well-being? Do you sense a yearning to cultivate your still, small voice ? Maybe now is the time to consider spiritual direction.
Discern and walk with longtime BCC hospital chaplain and classical music professional, Linda Golding, now offering spiritual direction for individuals and small groups.
Together we can employ contemplative and contemporary techniques to tune and amplify that still, small voice using liturgy, poetry, sacred writings, music, art.
The small groups will meet monthly for 75 minutes, virtually, for 10 months beginning in August 2025. Each group will be limited to 5 chaplains, each of whom will have ample time and space to consider the weather in their souls; multiple groups will be offered simultaneously. Registration for these sessions is $500 and can be completed here. Chaplaincy Innovation Lab community members at the Innovator level, including those whose access is provided by their institution, save 10%. A very limited number of scholarships are available. To inquire about a scholarship or paying the registration free in installments, contact info@chaplaincyinnovation.org.
All and no faith backgrounds welcome. For more information about individual or small groups please contact:
Linda Golding MA, BCC
lindasgolding@gmail.com
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Spiritual direction groups will be led by Chaplain Linda Golding, BCC, a longtime hospital chaplain and classically-trained musician.
Chaplain Linda S. Golding received her Masters Degree in Jewish Studies and the Certificate in Pastoral Care and Counseling from the Jewish Theological Seminary (NYC) in Spring 2013 and became a Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains in 2014
Golding served as Staff Chaplain at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center for over a decade, caring for patients, family and staff throughout the adult and children’s hospital. She was the chaplain member of the hospital’s Ethics Committee and its Organ Donor Council and lead regular didactics for chaplains, nurses, doctors and medical students.
Named a member of the inaugural 2020-21 REACH fellowship program sponsored by NewYork-Presbyterian and ICAP under the aegis of the Dalio Center for Health Justice, Golding also lead the 2021 Luce Foundation funded program THE BODY KNOWS, a pilot to provide support to frontline hospital staff.
She is an adjunct professor in the Bioethics program at Columbia University where she teaches HOPE, MEANING AND CLINICAL ETHICS, at JTS (PASTORAL TORAH OF DYING AND DEATH), and upcoming at Union Theological Seminary (PROFESSIONAL ETHICS FOR CHAPLAINCY AND MINISTRY.)
Publications include Spiritual Care with Non-Communicative Patients (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019) and “The Evolving Role of Hospital Chaplains at the End of Life,” co-authored with The Reverend Martha R. Jacobs, in Our Changing Journey to the End (Praeger/ABC-CLIO 2014).