| Interfaith Spiritual Care Certificate Program
Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership in partnership with
The Chaplaincy Institute for Arts & Interfaith Ministries
May 2-4 & November 14-16, 2008,
Berkeley, California
The Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership (CALL) at Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) has joined with the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministries (ChI) to present a new continuing education program for clergy, chaplains, therapists, social workers, healthcare, hospice and helping professionals, and all who seek deeper understanding of the many spiritual paths to healing.
Our new Interfaith Spiritual Care Certificate Program is designed to give students additional insight into the interfaith landscape of the communities they serve. The program will provide valuable resources for engaging with people of all religions and traditions, as well as tools for self-care, expressions of spirit, and renewal of our call to service. A special curriculum in interfaith spiritual care, the arts, music and dream work will be part of the spiritual toolkit of our attendees.
Continuing Education Units
Fifty continuing education contact hours (five CEUs) will be granted jointly by CALL and ChI for successful completion of this program. Two CEUs will be granted for participation in one of the two weekend sessions. CEUs are for clergy and chaplains.
Format
Two long weekend retreats, from Friday morning through Sunday afternoon, including one evening event each weekend. Housing is available in Easton Hall at CDSP on a first-come, first-served basis (see http://www.cdsp.edu/conference.php). Between weekends the program continues online with homework, spiritual practice, and two hours of individual faculty mentoring.
The retreat dates are Friday – Sunday, May 2 - 4 and November 14 - 16, 2008.
Fees
Full Certificate Program: $950 (5 CEUs / 50 contact hours)
One Weekend Only (no certificate): $475 (2 CEUs / 20 contact hours)
The program must have a minimum of nine students to be viable.
For More Information or to Register
Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership, call@cdsp.edu / (510) 204-0720
Register online: http://www.cdsp.edu/center_registration.php
Learning Objectives
The Program seeks to deepen competencies for serving individuals, families and communities, across faith and cultural divides. Each of the courses includes all three of the following elements:
- Reaching for new skills: interfaith skills; spiritual care and counseling skills
- Returning to the source: spiritual practices to open to the divine; re-commitment to our calling
- Renewing ourselves: self-care; building a community of support
Courses
Courses will be conducted on site and online by faculty selected for their depth of experience in interfaith ministries. Courses planned include:
Weekend 1:
- Integral/interfaith spirituality: a framework for spiritual care in a pluralistic and diverse world
- Contemplative prayer and meditation as spiritual care and self-care tools
- Graceful passages: using music in spiritual care at the end of life
- Creative pathways for self-care and renewal
- Art as a universtal language of spiritual experience and as a tool in spiritual care
- How to create interfaith worship: building community ritual celebration
Weekend 2:
- Interfaith spirituality and spiritual care: the journey of creating interfaith curriculum
- Self-care through art and creativity
- The understanding of suffering in the world religions
- Using music at the end of live in transition and grief
- Graceful passages: A musical evening of remembrance of those we have lost and blessing of caregivers
- Dream work in spiritual care: healing dreams, dreams of the dying, and dreams of the grieving
Certificate Faculty
See http://www.chaplaincyinstitute.org/ for bios
- Program Co-Director: Rev. Jurgen Schwing, Director of Spiritual Care at Kaiser Hospital, Hospice and Palliative Care Program for Walnut Creek, CA. In addition he directs the Open Channel Volunteer Chaplain Training Program.
- Program Co-Director: Rev. Gina Rose Halpern, Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministries.
- Faculty: Rev. Michael Stillwater, internationally recognized musician dedicated to the musical ministry of bridging spiritual divides and creating opportunities for healing from personal to global perspectives; co-founder and Director of Companion Arts.
Other faculty pending
Certificate Program Directors
- ChI: Rev. Gina Rose Halpern, Founding Director
- CALL: Laurie Isenberg, M.A., M.I.L.S., Director of Online and Distance Learning
For More Information contact call@cdsp.edu / (510) 204-0720
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