Chaplaincy Innovation Lab

https://www.chaplaincyinnovation.org https://www.sankofacpe.org What does it mean to provide spiritual care to people who are unhoused and locally incarcerated? Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab for a conversation with Chaplain Charlotte Cramer, founder of Temple of the Forgotten. Chaplain Cramer provides spiritual care to those who are unhoused and locally incarcerated in Marin County, Californi...

https://www.chaplaincyinnovation.org https://www.fetzer.org The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab (CIL) is collaborating with the Fetzer Institute to support and build networks of spiritual care providers who do not identify with a religious tradition or identify as non-religious (sometimes referred to as “spiritual but not religious”). This work brings together chaplains and scholars from diverse spiritu...

Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and Kathy Fogg Berry, author of When Words Fail: Practical Ministry to People with Dementia and Their Caregivers (2018) and chaplain at Westminster Canterbury Richmond, for an introduction to spiritual care in memory care settings. We’ll discuss the unique needs of older adults with dementia diagnoses, how current chaplains can begin thinking about providing this...

https://www.chaplaincyinnovation.org How does dorm chaplaincy redefine spiritual care in higher education residential settings? Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and chaplains from the University of the South to learn about a model of providing spiritual care in higher education residential settings. We’ll discuss how chaplaincy training can be incorporated into students’ own progress through aca...

Interfaith America is working to promote our nation’s religious and spiritual diversity as an asset in quality healthcare and lever for building health equity. Join Interfaith America and the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab for conversation about the importance of equipping all providers to work in partnership with spiritual care experts to strengthen care for people of all faiths and none. A chaplain,...

https://www.chaplaincyinnovation.org What is EMS chaplaincy? In this webinar, Katie Tunks Leach of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney will offer an overview of emergency medical services (EMS) chaplaincy. We'll learn what the daily work of EMS chaplaincy looks like, what kind of training EMS chaplains have, what interventions they use, and how those inte...

What is the work of private school chaplains? While we often mean college or university when we discuss spiritual care in educational settings, one field of the profession does serve private institutions at the secondary level. Join us for a discussion on spiritual care for teenage individuals at the ninth through twelfth grade levels, especially in private institutions where community considerati...

https://www.chaplaincyinnovation.org 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 c...

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 who either do not wish to pursue cred...

www.chaplaincyinnovation.org We thank Chaplain Distance Learning for their support of this webinar on psycho-spiritual first aid. Learn more at https://www.chaplaindl.org. 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 the principles of psycho-spiritual first aid, how it...

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 College of Health Professions and Director of Pastoral Care at VCU Medica...

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 healthcare...

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 death, hu...

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 Ends draws on ethnographic fieldwork an...

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 electronic medical record directly available via secure portal under the Cures Act. This direct acces...

Join us for an intimate, exploratory conversation with Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei about his new book,  Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion . Use code UNTANGLEDCIL for 20% off hardcover orders at  geni.us/paley-cil . Untangled  is a welcoming guidebook for finding expansive ease and deep compassion within oneself and through relationships with others based on...

What is the relationship between congregational service and chaplaincy? No few chaplains also work in congregational service, or other settings of shared and intentional religious, spiritual, or philosophy. How can both types of work be successful? How does one inform the other? In this webinar, participants will gain a better understanding of the skills and abilities that carry over from congrega...

Those wishing to make a public comment on “Medicaid Program; Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality,” a proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, may do so  here . Dr. Heaphy’s slides are available  here . This webinar will discuss the work of Dennis Heaphy on spiritual care in  healthcare  settings for individuals...

Please note that this webinar was presented from a chaplain working in the Christian tradition, with commentary and potential interventions that assume a Christian population being provided spiritual care. The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab stands firmly on its principles — including All Are Welcome and We Respect Differences — and so we encourage viewers to consider how they might adapt Christian-spec...

Join Chenxing Han, author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (North Atlantic Books, 2021), for a discussion of her new book One Long Listening: A Memoir of Grief, Friendship, and Spiritual Care . From Penguin Random House : How do we grieve our losses? How can we care for our spirits? one long listening offers enduring companionship to all who ask these searing, timel...

Moral injury and moral distress are enormously significant ideas in spiritual care, especially when caring for members of certain communities. What do these ideas mean? How should aspiring chaplains understand them and where they fit into career or vocation in spiritual care? This field guide session will provide an overview of moral injury and moral distress, as well as offer examples of their im...

What is chaplaincy supply and demand? For some time now, the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab has thought about what it would mean and require to build an approach to spiritual care based on both supply and demand. What does this mean? First, it means thinking about spiritual care first from the perspective of care recipients. Second, it means thinking about spiritual care from the perspectives of organi...

Patients’ loved ones, who often are acting as surrogate decision makers, are among the unique aspects of spiritual care in intensive care settings. In a study conducted at the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine from 2018 to 2021, a research team found that proactive spiritual care offered to ICU surrogates improves their well-being. These findings also provide evidence...

Chaplains provide spiritual care to anyone and everyone. This can mean accompanying those with whom the chaplain may have profound spiritual, religious, political, cultural, or other differences. What is the “radical acceptance” required to provide meaningful spiritual care, and how can aspiring chaplains begin preparing themselves for this crucial, but often quite difficult, aspect of the work? T...

How can spiritual care providers, including those in healthcare , best serve those with eating disorders? The Lab welcomes Emily Boring, biologist, Yale Divinity Student, and previous chaplain intern to discuss the complex relationship between spirituality, spiritual care, and eating disorders. We’ll learn about how chaplains can best accompany those experiencing eating disorders and disordered ea...