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  • The COVID Pandemic: Experiences from the New Frontlines

    Date: August 10, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    Webinar
    Join chaplains and other spiritual care leaders as they discuss the COVID pandemic on the "new frontlines," those parts of the country that are now experiencing critical levels of COVID infection for the first time. Our guests will discuss what they're seeing and experiencing, what lessons they learned from the early days of COVID elsewhere […]
  • Mitigating Poor Bereavement Outcomes and Supporting Staff during COVID-19

    Date: September 3, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    Webinar
    This event co-sponsored by Lab partner Transforming Chaplaincy Many media outlets have written about the challenging aspects of the grieving process during COVID-19. These include deaths related to COVID and non-COVID-related deaths that have been impacted by restricted visitation policies in health care and by restrictions on gathering sizes, including funerals. While alternative rituals have […]
  • Trauma and Spiritual Care

    Date: August 13, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    Location: Webinar
    The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab welcomes a panel of spiritual care providers and scholars to discuss what trauma means and how chaplains can help address it in a variety of settings. Professor Shelly Rambo of Boston University School of Theology and Senior Advisor to the Lab will moderate a conversation with:   Danielle Buhuro, CPE Supervisor, […]
  • [Partner Event] Movement Chaplaincy: Meeting Spiritual Needs in our Struggles for Justice

    Date: July 29, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    This is a partner event; the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab is not hosting this event. In this moment of social uprising and the compounding crises related to the global pandemic, many clergy, and lay leaders are experiencing a pull to use pastoral skills in service to the wave of social change and constantly shifting needs. Movement […]
  • Spiritual Care with LGBT Older Adults

    Date: November 5, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    Join on November 5th for a virtual conference on Spiritual Care of LGBT Elders, appropriate for chaplaincy students and chaplains. Participants will engage with diverse learning modalities including small group conversations, a short film, and a verbatim. The keynote speaker will be Hali Diecidue, Hebrew SeniorLife’s Senior Staff Chaplain and an expert in spiritual care […]
  • Best Practices in the Spiritual Care of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) Patients

    Date: October 14, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    This event is co-sponsored by The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and the Center for Spirituality and Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai In 2016, the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City launched the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery (CTMS), an interdisciplinary service that provides comprehensive transition-related care to transgender […]
  • An Evening with Sons of Serendip

    Date: July 23, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    Location: Live Show
    Join Micah Christian and Kendall Ramseur of Sons of Serendip as the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab presents an evening of musical and spoken word performance. Christian and Ramseur will perform key pieces relevant to this moment and reflect on what this music means and the transformative power it contains. The event will also include time for Q&A with the […]
  • Lessons from COVID-19

    Date: July 27, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    Cedars-Sinai hosts several healthcare chaplains from a variety of health systems to discuss what they are doing to provide spiritual care in the COVID pandemic, how their practice has changed, and what chaplains should be considering as they adapt their work. We will be joined by Tahara Akmal, chaplain at MedStar Washington and Wendy Cadge of […]
  • Innovations in Chaplaincy Education

    Date: July 23, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    With the support of the Wabash Center and in partnership with ACPE and BU School of Theology, the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab will kick off Innovation in Chaplaincy Education with a free webinar on July 23rd. We will be joined by chaplains and educators from a variety of institutions to discuss the present state of chaplaincy education and how […]
  • Luce COVID Grant Round 2 Q&A Session

    Date: October 14, 2020
    Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
    The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab will host a 1-hour Q&A session for individuals and organizations interested in applying for a grant to support resilience in COVID frontline workers. This session is highly recommended for those unfamiliar with the grant-writing process; all are welcome. Note: this session is intended for those applying for the later deadline of this […]