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  • Open Notes and the Cures Act: What Do Chaplains Need to Know?

    Date: June 8, 2023
    Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12805" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HX0LZaJnSJ2uClAVN929rQ"][vc_column_text]As a result of the 21st Century Cures Act, patients in the United States have greater and more immediate access to their care notes. What are open notes, and what is the role of the chaplain in this new paradigm? [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]As we noted in a 2021 webinar, "Healthcare systems […]
  • Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan

    Date: June 14, 2023
    Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12795" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D_MTVbz8RwCljTgoyiJ-Mw"][vc_column_text]Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab for a conversation with Timothy O. Benedict, author of Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan and Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]From the publisher, University of California Press: What role does religion […]
  • One Long Listening

    Date: May 24, 2023
    Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12760" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" link="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iu-FtsM6RoywPsvZgXmnMg#/registration"][vc_column_text]Join Chenxing Han, author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (North Atlantic Books, 2021), for a discussion of her new book One Long Listening: A Memoir of Grief, Friendship, and Spiritual Care. From Penguin Random House: How do we grieve our losses? How can we […]
  • Congregational Service and Chaplaincy: Can Both Be Done?

    Date: June 1, 2023
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12731" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1rMV65VbQQ-NQZ1bWlgYpw"][vc_column_text] No few chaplains also work in congregational service, or other settings of shared and intentional religious, spiritual, or philosophy. How can both types of work be successful? How does one inform the other? [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In this webinar, participants will gain a better understanding of the skills and abilities that […]
  • Duel eligibility

    Integrated Care Plans for Dually Eligible Individuals

    Date: May 31, 2023
    Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12727" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qFpjA-3VQgKrny5wLayc0g#/registration"][vc_column_text]This webinar will discuss the work of Dennis Heaphy on spiritual care in healthcare settings for individuals who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare coverage. It emphasizes the importance of coding chaplaincy services for these populations, particularly those enrolled in capitated care plans. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Adapted from Heaphy’s recent article […]
  • Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion with author Koshin Paley Ellison

    Date: June 7, 2023
    Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12767" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BKEnTX8dTR-fogMcm8gAuw#/registration"][vc_column_text]Join us for an intimate, exploratory conversation with Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei about his new book, Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion. Use code UNTANGLEDCIL for 20% off hardcover orders at geni.us/paley-cil. Untangled is a welcoming guidebook for finding expansive ease and deep compassion within […]
  • Spiritual Care for People with Disabilities

    Date: May 30, 2023
    Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12695" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0BpOOLoMTl2g_RTnqEs4zA#/registration"][vc_column_text] This webinar will educate, empower and equip chaplains to provide spiritual care to people with disabilities (PWD) without inherent bias. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]First, our guest, Rev. Dr. Jackee Jackson, will discuss how chaplains can acquire effective language to communicate with people with disabilities by using person and identity first language. […]
  • [External] Dharmic Theories of Care

    Date: April 17, 2023
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From our colleagues at the North American Hindu Chaplains Association:[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="12670" img_size="600x209" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="https://www.hinduchaplains.com/webinars.html"][vc_column_text]Dr. Vrajvihari Sharan, Director of Dharmic Life, Georgetown University Dr. Sharan will offer insights on how Dharmic practices and philosophies translate into actual spiritual care situations. Open to all who are interested in developing their skills in providing spiritual care […]
  • Supply and Demand in Spiritual Care: Analyzing the Gap

    Date: April 27, 2023
    Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12618" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vwd-ChIdRB61RSzUYtZCSA"][vc_column_text] For some time now, the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab has thought about what it would mean and require to build an approach to spiritual care based on both supply and demand. What does this mean? [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]First, it means thinking about spiritual care first from the perspective of care recipients. […]
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    Field Guide: Moral Injury and Moral Distress

    Date: May 1, 2023
    Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
    Location: Zoom
    Webinar
    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Moral injury and moral distress are enormously significant ideas in spiritual care, especially when caring for members of certain communities. What do these ideas mean? How should aspiring chaplains understand them and where they fit into career or vocation in spiritual care? This field guide session will provide an overview of moral injury and […]