Fostering Healing Conversations: How Ancient Texts and Modern Reflections Help Us Care

Date: Feb 10, 2025

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Sponsor: Online Learning

Location: Online

Category: What’s Next? New Ways of Engaging Jewish Sources

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.

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.