The challenges of our time call on us to be humble yet accomplished leaders and team members, devoted to diversity, trauma-informed, engaged with both theology and science, able to model vulnerability, confidence, and resilience. I can offer learning and facilitated conversations to help us get there together.
Contact me for more information about teaching at your next retreat, team meeting, or conference.
Upcoming Workshops, Classes, Conference Presentations
“Spiritual Care and Clinical Practice Transformed: At the Intersection of Vulnerability and Awe,” Association of Professional Chaplains Conference, June 2026.
Examples of past teaching topics:
- Self-care and resilience for clergy
- Moral Distress for Chaplains
- Providing Trauma Informed Spiritual Care
- Neuroscience and Spiritual Care
- Wisdom from the Baal Shem Tov
- Becoming a cultural broker; cultural humility and literacy
- Attending to workplace grief and stress
- Promoting Spiritual Care as a full partner within healthcare teams
- Leadership skills and practices
- Building a multi-religious spiritual care department
- Funerals and Mourning Practices After A Suicide
Related Publications and Videos:
- Spiritual Care and Clinical Practice Transformed: At the Intersection of Vulnerabilty and Awe, co-editor (forthcoming Palgrave 2026).
- “Spiritual Care in the shadow of loss and uprising: A Year in the Life of a Team,” in Postcolonial Practices of Care: A Project of Togetherness during COVID-19 and Racial Violence
- “Cultural Humility and Reverent Curiosity: Spiritual Care with and Beyond Norms,” Postcolonial Images of Spiritual Care: Challenges of Care in a Neoliberal Age
- “The Value of Listening During the COVID-19 Pandemic” San Jose Mercury News
- “Serving Jewish Families of Suicide” The Suicide Funeral (Or Memorial Service): Honoring Their Memory, Comforting Their Survivors
- “Ritual of Release” Kerem: A Journal of Creative Explorations in Judaism.
- “Review: Jewish Family: Myth and Reality – The Second Conference of European Female Rabbis, Cantors, Jewish Activists, and Scholars” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Issues and Gender Studies.