Chaplaincy Innovation Lab

We thank Interfaith Chaplaincy at DFW for their support of this webinar. Learn more at http://www.dfwairportchapel.org/.  

Airport chaplaincy serves perhaps the largest community in the world and yet remains unknown by many in both the general public and the chaplaincy profession. Join Lab Director of Programs Michael Skaggs and three airport chaplains from around the world to hear what the daily work of airport chaplaincy is like, what education and training is needed by airport chaplains, and what the spiritual care of the future looks like in the unique world of air travel.  We are joined by:  Rev. Canon Jonathan Baldwin, London Gatwick; Fr. Greg McBrayer, Dallas-Fort Worth; Pastor Marieke Meiring, Schiphol.

There is growing interest in how spiritual care providers can incorporate elements of the natural world into their work (sometimes called “eco-chaplaincy”), provide chaplaincy in the context of climate change, and otherwise acknowledge the spiritual implications of the present and future of our natural world. Join the Lab and leading thinkers on spiritual care and the environment as we explore this growing field of chaplaincy. Supplemental materials for further exploration can be found at the bottom of this description.

We are joined by:

Rabbi Katy Z Allen, BCC, founder and rabbi of Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope

Rev. Alison Cornish, Program Consultant at The BTS Center

Rev. Stacy L. Grove, MDiv, Founder of HeartSpace Spiritual Resources

We thank The BTS Center for its support of this webinar. The BTS Center, located in Portland, Maine, is focused on spiritual leadership for a climate changed world. The BTS Center seeks to catalyze spiritual imagination, with enduring wisdom, for transformative faith leadership by offering theologically grounded programs of continuing education and spiritual formation, including workshops and retreats, learning cohorts, public conversations, and projects of applied research.

Inspired by the vision of human hearts renewed, justice established, and creation restored, we are focusing much of our programmatic attention on equipping faith leaders — ordained and non-ordained, clergy and laypersons, leaders of traditional religious communities and other communities of practice — with the knowledge, skills, mindsets, and practices that are needed for effective and faithful ministry in this moment marked by the dual urgencies of a changing religious landscape and a global climate crisis.

Learn more at https://www.thebtscenter.org about the Center’s programs, retreats, Lament with Earth offerings, Climate Changed podcast, book study groups, and more.

The BTS Center’s podcast, Climate Changed, offers intimate interviews and conversations around some of the most pressing questions about faith, life, and climate change. Hosted by Ben Yosua-Davis, Director of Applied Research, and Nicole Diroff, Program Director, and produced by Peterson Toscano, the podcast features acclaimed guests such as Corina Newsome, Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, poet Criag Santos Perez, and many more, all exploring what spiritual leadership looks and feels like in a climate-changed world. You can find Climate Changed on your favorite listening platform or at https://thebtscenter.org/climate-changed/.

https://www.chaplaincyinnovation.org The Field Guide for Aspiring Chaplains series is intended to offer a basic introduction to the profession of chaplaincy, from education and training through to practice. Each session, like this one on online CPE, includes an in-depth conversation with spiritual care practitioners on topics of key importance to those considering careers in chaplaincy; there are also opportunities for small-group discussion afterward (not recorded). You can view recordings from previous sessions below. 

Those interested in our Field Guide series should also download our free eBook Beginner’s Guide to Spiritual Care, available at bit.ly/beginners-cpe-ebook.  

We're joined for this session by Danielle Buhuro of Sankofa CPE and Angela Epshtein of Facing Cancer Together.  The Field Guide series is offered at no cost thanks to the generous support of our sponsors:

E Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation https://bit.ly/carpenter-cil-fa22-fg2 

lliff School of Theology https://bit.ly/iliff-cil-fa22-fg2 

Bayan Islamic Graduate School https://bit.ly/bayan-cil-fa22-fg2 

Union Theological Seminary https://bit.ly/union-cil-fa22-fg2 

University of the West https://bit.ly/uwest-cil-fa22-fg2

Join us as we launch Professor Wendy Cadge‘s new book Spiritual Care: The Everyday Work of Chaplains, an exploration of the past, present, and future of chaplain work and published by Oxford University Press. Professor Cadge is Founder and Director of the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, as well as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Members of the Lab community can use the code AAFLYG6 for a 30% discount on orders.

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Panelists

Wendy Cadge, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University

Mychal Springer, Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Barbara Savage, Geraldine R. Segal Professor Emerita of American Social Thought, University of Pennsylvania

John Schmalzbauer, Blanche Gorman Strong Chair in Protestant Studies, Missouri State University

Support for this webinar and research on chaplain work

Barbara Mandel Professorship in the Humanistic Social Sciences, Brandeis University

Join Steven Cunningham, children’s author and Director of Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery and Director of GME at Ascension St. Agnes, for a discussion of his new book on religious literacy It’s Considerate To Be Literate about Religion, published by Orange Hat Press.

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We’re also joined by chaplain researcher Beth Muehlhausen, PhD.

Online chaplaincy degrees: is remote education for me?

The Field Guide series offers a basic introduction to the profession of chaplaincy. Each session includes an in-depth conversation with spiritual care practitioners on topics of key importance. We also provide an opportunity for small-group discussion (not recorded).

Dr. Carrie Doehring (Iliff University) and Rev. Dr. Pamela Hancock (Starr King School for Ministry) join us for this session. Both are closely involved in their institutions’ chaplaincy degrees and online education. They discuss the benefits of online education, how it compares to fully in-person instruction, and how good educators in spiritual care can model best practices in chaplaincy. There is also public Q&A toward the end of the session.

We offer the Field Guide series at no cost thanks to the generous support of our sponsors Iliff School of Theology, Bayan Islamic Graduate School, Union Theological Seminary, and University of the West. The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation generously supports the Lab’s resources on chaplaincy careers. You can view other sessions of our Field Guide series, on topics such as an introduction to CPE, sector-specific spiritual care, and more here.

Where do Jewish chaplains serve in the United States? How are they trained? Who becomes a chaplain, and how is the next generation of Jewish spiritual care providers being prepared for their work?

This webinar discusses the work of the Mapping Jewish Chaplaincy project, supported by the Charles Revson Foundation. We are joined by:

Wendy Cadge, Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences, Brandeis University

Rabbi Mychal Springer, Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Rabbi Sara Paasche-Orlow BCC, President of MA Board of Rabbis

Rabbi Dr. Joseph Ozarowski, Rabbinic Counselor and Chaplain for Jewish Child and Family Services Chicago and Jewish Chaplain at Skokie Hospital

Bethamie Horowitz, Research Director, Mapping Jewish Chaplaincy Project

This webinar reports on a survey recently conducted by Gallup on Americans' experiences with and demand for spiritual care providers.

Our panel discusses where chaplains are serving individuals, where demand is not being met, and what chaplains need to know about those they serve into the future. This webinar is part of our project on covenantal pluralism, sponsored by Templeton Religion Trust. We're joined by:

Marilyn Barnes, Director of Pastoral Care, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

Wendy Cadge, Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University

Amy Lawton, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chaplaincy Innovation Lab

Jessica Hamar Martinez, Associate Research Scientists and Senior Data Analyst, University of Arizona

Taylor Winfield, SSHRC Postdoctoral Scholar, McGill University

A team of chaplains at Indiana University Health recently completed a two-year study about a chaplain-led “pause” – 10-minute compact “defusings” / debriefings for care teams following code blue resuscitation events at an adult Level 1 trauma center. The team gathered survey and interview data prior to implementing the debriefs about the care team’s experiences of these difficult events, and then piloted a clinically responsive intervention.

Here the research team discusses preliminary findings and what other chaplains need to know about implementing post-traumatic debriefings for care staff. We’re joined by:

Shelley Varner Perez, Research Chaplain and Senior Program Manager, IU Health

Ann Cottingham, Health Services Researcher and Director of Research in Health Professions Education and Practice at IU School of Medicine

Kelly Mathis, Staff Chaplain, IU Health

Greg Morse, Staff Chaplain, IU Health

We are grateful for the support of Transforming Chaplaincy and IU Health for this webinar.

We thank the ACPE Curriculum Committee for its support of this webinar.

Rev. David Fleenor, ACPE Certified Educator, hosts a panel discussion exploring the pros and cons of online CPE with three experienced online clinical pastoral educators: the Rev. Carolyn Barksdale, Veronica Martinez-Gallegos, and Sarah Knoll Sweeney.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and the ACPE Curriculum Committee; the research project preceding the event was funded by the Foundation for ACPE.