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Upcoming Webinars and Other Events

Check out our upcoming events below; some are free and open to the public, while others are for Chaplaincy Innovation Lab individual and organizational subscribers.

We also invite your organization to consider sponsoring one or more webinars. Sponsors are listed on all pre-event publicity, during the event, and in all follow-up and archival materials. Sponsorship is an excellent opportunity to reach an incredibly diverse community of chaplains, educators, and others contributing to the work of spiritual care. For more information, write to us at info@chaplaincyinnovation.org.

Want to advertise an event, program, of course of your own? Let us know!

You can find recordings of our past webinars here and through the link at right.

Spiritual Care and Mental Health: What Every Chaplain Should Know

Date: November 10, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Zoom
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Course | Webinar

This lecture will launch the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab’s short course in mental health chaplaincy, and will be of interest both to chaplains who may currently serve patients with diagnosed or undiagnosed mental health comorbidities, and chaplains interested in serving in more intensive mental health contexts.

Rev. Zollfrank will cover topics including, but not limited to:

  • Mental health versus spiritual health: what is the difference and how are they related?
  • Understanding the difference between everyday anxiety, temporary depressive experiences, and long-term mental health diagnoses
  • Inpatient versus outpatient mental health care, and chaplaincy therein
  • Making referrals for mental health care
  • How to be expansive and adaptable in caring for those experiencing psychosis.
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Learning Outcomes

We have indexed this webinar to the following ACPE and BCCI outcomes and competencies. Our proposed learning outcomes should not be construed as endorsement of this webinar by either ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education or BCCI, Inc.

ACPE — B3: Demonstrate intercultural and interreligious humility

ACPE — E4: Demonstrate teamwork and collaboration across disciplines

BCCI — ITP3: Incorporate spiritual and emotional dimensions of human development

BCCI — PPS3: Provide spiritual care respecting diversity

Our Presenter

Rev. Angelika A. Zollfrank is director of Clinical Pastoral Education within the Spirituality & Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital. She provides spiritual guidance and insight for DigitalSoul and SPIRIT projects and serves as a liaison between the research team and the clinical staff at McLean. Angelika is a pastor in the ELCA, board certified by APC, a Certified Educator with ACPE, and has over two decades of experience in chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral Education. She completed her chaplaincy training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

Foundations in Spiritual Midwifery

Start date: December 1, 2026
End date: December 22, 2026
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: Online
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Course
The Institute for Spiritual Midwifery logo
A Four-Session Online Course with Chaplain Stephen Faller

Tuesdays, December 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2026
8:00–9:30 PM Eastern | Live on Zoom
Tuition: $150 for the complete series

Spiritual Midwifery is a disciplined way of helping another person bring forth the meaning already stirring within them. Rather than beginning with answers, interpretations, or solutions, the spiritual caregiver learns to listen for what is emerging through story, silence, grief, resistance, faith, and contradiction.

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Doctor of Ministry with Chaplaincy Track at Emory’s Candler School of Theology: Online Info Session

Date: December 1, 2026
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Online
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Course
A Doctor of Ministry graduate smiles as two faculty members place his doctoral hood at an Emory University commencement ceremony

Doctor of Ministry Program with Chaplaincy Track at Emory’s Candler School of Theology

Online info session: Tuesday, December 1, 2026
8:00–9:00 PM Eastern
Online/hybrid program

Candler School of Theology at Emory University offers an online/hybrid Doctor of Ministry (DMin) degree so you can benefit from the resources of a top 25 university while staying rooted in your place of ministry, no matter where you are.

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Movement Dharma: Union’s New Buddhist Movement Chaplaincy Program

Date: December 5, 2026
All-day event
Location: Online
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Course
Movement Dharma flyer: A Program in Buddhist Movement Chaplaincy, hosted by Union Theological Seminary's Buddhist Studies Program with Brooke Lavelle, Vaishali Mamgain, Adam Lobel, Maha El-Sheikh, Katie Robinson, Sumitra Rajkumar, and Joe Loizzo. movementdharma.org

Union Theological Seminary’s New Buddhist Movement Chaplaincy Program

Launching December 5, 2026
Hosted by Union’s Buddhist Studies Program
Priority application deadline: November 15

We are in need of spiritual political leaders and politicized spiritual teachers who can not only help us bear witness to suffering, but who can also provide transformative vision to help us realize our collective potential for liberation.

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Who Holds the Chaplain? Self-Comfort vs. Self-Care for Caregivers Who Carry Everyone Else

Date: December 9, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Zoom
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Webinar
Who Holds the Chaplain? Self-Comfort vs. Self-Care for Caregivers Who Carry Everyone Else, with The Reverend Dr. Ebony D. Only, BCC, AMFT. Subscriber Exclusive webinar, December 9, 2026, 2 PM Eastern.
Chaplains spend their days holding other people’s crises, and many of us were formed to believe that being depleted is a sign of devotion. This session names where that belief comes from, including its roots in the history of Black labor and faith, and offers three practical permissions: to rest without guilt, to receive care, and to experience a calling as an invitation. Participants will learn the difference between self-comfort, which soothes for a moment, and self-care, which sustains a career. We’ll close with a short restoration ritual chaplaincy teams can use with one another.

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Chaplaincy Departments and Patient Experience Scores

Date: December 10, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Zoom
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Webinar
Chaplaincy Departments and Patient Experience Scores webinar with Professor Kelsey White, BCC, Subscriber Exclusive, December 10, 2026, 12 PM Eastern
Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and Professor Kelsey White of Virginia Commonwealth University to discuss the research project and article “The Impact of Chaplaincy Departments on Hospital Patient Experience Scores.” The article found, among other things, that “Hospitals with chaplaincy departments reported higher HCAHPS global ratings and higher ratings of patients likely to recommend the hospital.” (Abstract)

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CHRYSALIS: An Eight-Week Well-Being Program for Clergy and Chaplains

Start date: January 18, 2027
End date: March 7, 2027
All-day event
Location: Online
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Course
CHRYSALIS Participant Information Sheet from the Albert & Jessie Danielsen Institute at Boston University, describing the individual and group program formats

An Eight-Week Online Program for Clergy, Chaplains, and Mental Health Professionals

January 18 – March 7, 2027
Online | Individual or Group Format
Up to $60 in gift card compensation

CHRYSALIS invites clergy, chaplains, and mental health professionals into a transitional space for reflection on and respite from the busyness and stress of work and life. Aims include addressing occupational hazards like burnout and vicarious trauma and helping cultivate strengths and capacities that promote well-being.

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