What Does Being Black and Buddhist Tell Us about Chaplaincy?

Harvard Divinity School pastoral care professor Cheryl A. Giles, Psy.D., Buddhist teacher Lama Rod Owens, M.Div., and pastoral counselor Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Th.D., are all Harvard-connected/educated writers who contributed to Giles’s and Yetunde’s co-edited Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation and Freedom (Shambhala, 2020).

In this webinar, Giles (co-editor of The Arts of Contemplative Care), Owens (Love and Rage), and Yetunde (Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, U.S. Law, and Womanist Theology for Transgender Spiritual Care) will offer insights from their experiences in the spiritual/pastoral care field, as well as intersectional insights from their practices in Buddhism, writing, and teaching.

Cheryl A. Giles is the Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling and a licensed clinical psychologist. She teaches courses on spiritual care, trauma and resilience, and contemplative care of the dying.

Lama Rod Owens is a teacher for Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, author, and social change activist.

Pamela Ayo Yetunde is the founder of Audre: Spiritual Care for Women with Cancer.