Spiritual Care Management & Leadership CertificateSeptember 2026 - May 2027 (2026 SCML Cohort) The Transforming Chaplaincy Certificate Program in Spiritual Care Management and Leadership (SCML), a distinctive educational offering at Rush University College of Health Sciences, is an exceptional resource for those aspiring to lead spiritual care programs in healthcare. Led by experts, it integrates classroom learning, real-world case studies, and experiential activities to equip participants...
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Digital Spiritual CareFunded by The John Templeton Foundation We're thrilled to announce our new international research project: "Digital Spiritual Care: Towards a Vision for Compassionate Care in Digital Health," with generous funding from the John Templeton Foundation and in partnership with the University of Zurich, Heidelberg University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Healthcare has gone digital, with telehealth, electronic health records, remote monitoring, and AI. But spiritual...
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Digital Spiritual CareFunded by The John Templeton Foundation We're thrilled to announce our new international research project: "Digital Spiritual Care: Towards a Vision for Compassionate Care in Digital Health," with generous funding from the John Templeton Foundation and in partnership with the University of Zurich, Heidelberg University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Healthcare has gone digital, with telehealth, electronic health records, remote monitoring, and AI. But spiritual...
2 months ago • 7 min read
A Significant Request with Ambitious Goals: Reflecting on the 10th Anniversary of Transforming Chaplaincy (L-R: Paul Galchutt, Amanda Borchik, Dr. Csaba Szilagyi, Cate Beaulieu-Desjardins, Dr. George Fitchett) By Cate Beaulieu-Desjardins, Assistant Director of Research DevelopmentOn March 31, as we gathered on a Zoom webinar to celebrate ten years of Transforming Chaplaincy, I found myself thinking about how rare it is to be part of something that is at once visionary yet also deeply...
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Chaplaincy Research Summer InstituteBryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr - PennsylvaniaJuly 27-31 Chaplains are invited to apply for the Chaplaincy Research Summer Institute (CRSI). First offered in 2017, the CRSI helps chaplains develop research literacy to understand and apply research critically and introduces them to skills to engage in research and quality improvement projects. The CRSI follows an intensive and interactive format that facilitates networking with faculty and chaplains involved in...
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Chaplaincy Research Summer InstituteBryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr - PennsylvaniaJuly 27-31 Chaplains are invited to apply for the Chaplaincy Research Summer Institute (CRSI). First offered in 2017, the CRSI helps chaplains develop research literacy to understand and apply research critically and introduces them to skills to engage in research and quality improvement projects. The CRSI follows an intensive and interactive format that facilitates networking with faculty and chaplains involved in...
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Chaplaincy Research Summer InstituteBryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr - PennsylvaniaJuly 27-31 Chaplains are invited to apply for the Chaplaincy Research Summer Institute (CRSI). First offered in 2017, the CRSI helps chaplains develop research literacy to understand and apply research critically and introduces them to skills to engage in research and quality improvement projects. The CRSI follows an intensive and interactive format that facilitates networking with faculty and chaplains involved in...
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Our Upcoming Webinars "In Dialogue with Your Life Story": A Mixed-Methods Study into the Workings of a Narrative and Interfaith Spiritual Care Intervention in Palliative Care at HomeThursday, April 16, 1 - 2 pm (CDT) The value of researching chaplaincy outcomes is increasingly acknowledged by both scholars and practitioners. In this webinar, we present the qualitative and quantitative findings of our intervention “In dialogue with your life story”, developed for patients receiving palliative...
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Our Upcoming Webinars "In Dialogue with Your Life Story": A Mixed-Methods Study into the Workings of a Narrative and Interfaith Spiritual Care Intervention in Palliative Care at HomeThursday, April 16, 1 - 2 pm (CDT) The value of researching chaplaincy outcomes is increasingly acknowledged by both scholars and practitioners. In this webinar, we present the qualitative and quantitative findings of our intervention “In dialogue with your life story”, developed for patients receiving palliative...
4 months ago • 2 min read