The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab offers webinars on a wide variety of topics. These sessions are recorded so those who can’t attend them live can view them at their convenience later. You may also view our top webinars here.
If there are topics or ideas you’d like to see explored on a webinar, contact us at events@chaplaincyinnovation.org.
Webinar Archive
Go Teams for Healthcare
How can chaplains help healthcare institutions respond best in moments of crisis? One chaplain proposes Go Teams for healthcare. Following a series of traumatic incidents and losses, including on-site suicide, colleague deaths, and assaultive patients that deeply shook the staff community, Chaplain Alyssa Adreani created and launched a crisis response program called the Newton-Wellesley Hospital…
Credentialing for Humanist Chaplains
We thank Religious Naturalist Association for their support of this webinar. With the roots of professional spiritual care as we know it today in religious traditions, the credentialing process — from classroom education to CPE and endorsement and board certification — long has been associated with religious organizations. But what does this mean for chaplains…
Psycho-Spiritual First Aid
We thank Chaplain Distance Learning for their support of this webinar on psycho-spiritual first aid. Join Chaplain Deb Wacker, M.Div, MBA, BCCC, FHPC for an introduction to psycho-spiritual first aid, a key intervention in disaster and crisis response. Participants will learn this intervention's principles, how it differs from other interventions (such as critical incident stress…
Chaplains of Color: Histories and Practices
Join four chaplains of color and panelist-authors who have contributed to a special issue of the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy on the history, experiences, and future of chaplains of color. You can find the full issue here. We’re joined by: Rev. Marilyn Barnes is Rev. Robert B. Lantz Chair of Patient Counseling at VCU…
Workplace Wellness
Join contributors to Workplace Wellness: From Resiliency to Suicide Prevention and Grief Management: A Practical Guide to Supporting Healthcare Professionals (Springer International, 2023) for a discussion of this recent, vital publication. The Lab community can order at a 20% discount using the code found in this PDF. Participants will learn about the particular workplace needs of…
Meaningful Rituals for Animal and Habitat Loss
Join Rev. Sarah Bowen, Animal Chaplain and Program Director of Compassion Consortium’s Animal Chaplaincy Training Program, as well as Rev. Ginny Mikita and Susan Shannon for a conversation on how chaplains can help individuals and communities experience and process the animal and habitat loss. We’ll discuss practical methods of supporting those experiencing anticipatory grief, animal…
Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan
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. From the publisher, University of California Press: What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual…
Open Notes and the Cures Act: What Chaplains Need to Know
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? As we noted in a 2021 webinar, “Healthcare systems are required to make a patient’s…