Fostering Healing Conversations: How Ancient Texts and Modern Reflections Help Us Care
Fostering Healing Conversations: How Ancient Texts and Modern Reflections Help Us Care
Monday, February 10, 2024
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
Online
With Naomi Kalish, the Harold and Carole Wolfe Director of JTS’s Center for Pastoral Education
What can we learn from ancient stories about caring for people’s emotional and spiritual experience in current times? How can we integrate wisdom from sacred texts with current day insights from the behavioral sciences to equip ourselves to lead with compassion? During this session we will study texts about loss and healing and consider them in light of bereavement and trauma literature.
This session will serve as an introduction to the type of learning is at the core of JTS’s innovative Masters in Spiritual Care and Counseling that provides students with both theoretical academic knowledge and practical experiential learning in the field of spiritual care and counseling. While newly launched, the MA builds on seventy years of teaching academic courses and fifteen years as an accredited center for teaching supervised chaplaincy internships. This multifaith program is open to students from diverse backgrounds.
Learn more about JTS’s Master’s in Spiritual Care and Counseling
About the Series
Mondays, February 3–March 24, 2025*
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
JTS is well-known as a hub of innovative scholarship and a center of academic Jewish Studies. Recently, JTS has launched programs in Biblical Hebrew, Pastoral Care, and Teen Learning, offering accessible entryways into the Jewish textual tradition. Explore how JTS is bringing together new modes of learning with classical sources to meet the needs of today’s world. Sessions will give participants a taste of the ideas and teaching that are central to these programs.
* There is no session on Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 17.