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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.

CHRYSALIS for professional well-being

Start date: June 15, 2026
End date: August 15, 2026
All-day event
Location: Online
Register here [external partner]
Course
Are you feeling lonely? Burnt out? Longing for something more than just “self-care”? Join a free, empirically based personal and professional formation space for current religious leaders. Building on support groups offered in partnership with the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab during the pandemic, Boston University’s Danielsen Institute has developed an 8-week online program—with group and individual formats—that offers a transitional space for reflection, respite, connection, and growth.
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Charts Don’t Matter

Date: June 16, 2026
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Register here (Free and open to the public)
Webinar
Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab for a discussion of its recent work, supported by the Louisville Institute, on the promise and potential of greater dialogue between religious and non-religious communities.

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2026 Symposium on Death and Bereavement Studies

Date: July 25, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Online
Register here (Partner event)
Course

In this unique online seminar, you’ll work interactively with some of today’s most respected leaders at the intersection of psychology and spirituality.

We will explore how religious belief as a strategy for coping with painful life events can be both helpful and harmful, and how spiritual bypassing as a form of negative religious coping has been linked to increased distress.

Spiritual Bypassing:
Counseling and Support Perspectives

Saturday July 25, 2026 – ONLINE

Six CE credit hours available for nurses, social workers, counselors and more

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION HERE:

https://deathgriefandbelief.com/2026-symposium-on-spiritual-bypassing/

What You Will Experience in This Symposium:

  • Discuss definitions of spiritual bypassing
  • Compare a variety of spiritual responses to loss and grief
  • Utilize assessment tools for identifying indicators of spiritual bypassing
  • Discuss current research on spiritual bypassing
  • Analyze the impact of spiritual bypassing on long-term mental health

Who Should Attend:

  • Counselors, psychologists and social workers
  • End-of-life professionals
  • Chaplains, clergy and religious scholars
  • Spiritual seekers and mystics
  • Bereaved individuals and caregivers

Presenters and Topics

Carrie Doehring PhD
SPIRITUAL BYPASS AS LAMENTATION

Craig Cashwell, PHD –
THE SCIENCE AND ART OF WORKING WITH SPIRITUAL BYPASS

Rev. Mary Myoku Remington
SPIRITUAL BYPASS IN BUDDHISM

Sonya Lott, PhD
SPIRITUAL BYPASSING, COMPLICATED GRIEF,AND PROLONGED GRIEF DISORDER

Andrew Jasko, MDiv, MPhil, MA
SPIRITUAL BYPASSING: TRAUMA-INFORMED PATHWAYS TO AUTHENTIC HEALING

Janice Selbie, MPCC
DISENFRANCHISED GRIEF AND SPIRITUAL BYPASSING

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Why Subscribe?

The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab is an amazing resource for learning, networking, and building careers.

Each Lab member is entitled to attend live webinars at no cost, join our popular Facebook group, access all future Lab eBooks and our constantly growing catalog of publications, and so much more! 

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