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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15684" img_size="600x338" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" css="" link="https://geni.us/Unaffil-web"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab for a free, public webinar at the conclusion of its project "Spiritual Care Networks for Unaffiliated Chaplains," sponsored by the Fetzer Institute. In this webinar, we'll report findings from our work on this project, including the educational opportunities and barriers present for […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15681" img_size="600x338" alignment="center" css=""][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and three leading chaplains for a discussion on one of the core requirements of professional chaplaincy: radical embrace of the radically "other," even within chaplaincy itself. In a time of unprecedented political and social division, what role do chaplains play in healing fractured communities? […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15567" img_size="600x338" alignment="center" css=""][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Join mental health chaplain (APC) and Certified Educator (ACPE) Angelika A. Zollfrank (McLean Hospital) for a webinar on spiritual care with those experiencing anxiety and depression. (separate from other diagnoses or circumstances that have brought them to a chaplain). Using two cases from her own clinical work as well […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15478" img_size="600x338" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://geni.us/hansen-web"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Chaplains who ground their work in the healing power of being in relationship with Earth — particularly a climate-changed Earth — are shaping a new field of practice: climate conscious chaplaincy. As the real effects of the climate crisis are felt across all nations and peoples, there […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15474" img_size="600x338" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://geni.us/hansen-web"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and chaplaincy educator and practitioner Danielle Tumminio Hansen for a conversation on her new book Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care: Interventions for Safety, Meaning, Reconnection, and Justice. CIL community members can order the book at a 30% discount here by using the code TISC30 […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15410" img_size="600x338" alignment="center" css=""][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and a team of contributors to the new book “Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care,” published in April by Oxford University Press. From the Press’s website: Strong professional identities are key to healthy interprofessional teams. When each professional knows their distinctive role within the team, misunderstandings and […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15381" img_size="600x338" alignment="center" css=""][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and leading disaster spiritual care expert Earl Johnson for a conversation on Johnson’s reflections on a decades-long career in spiritual care, including some of the most difficult disasters that have faced the American public. For ten years, the national spiritual care manager for the […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15376" img_size="600x338" alignment="center" css=""][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""] In the palliative care setting, a mistaken assumption often determines the early course of care: if there are no obvious physical symptoms, then there is no real suffering or need for care. Yet research and the experience of palliative caregivers tells another story. Even in the absence of physical […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="15287" img_size="600x338" alignment="center" css=""][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and our colleagues Hadassah Margolis and Angelika Zollfrank from McLean Hospital for a conversation on inpatient psychiatric care. We’ll discuss how this field is different from non-psychiatric healthcare chaplaincy and explore several cases to illustrate the uniqueness and complexity of this field. Please note that […]