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Student Experiences

Interfaith Dialogue Program Projects

The Interfaith Dialogue program gives students an opportunity to learn about each other's faith traditions and orientations to help cultivate a sense of community among peers. Workshops focus on several key aspects of interfaith dialogue including active listening, having honest conversations, being respectful while disagreeing, and critical self-reflection. 

2 colourful painted canvases, a beaded necklace, and a candle arranged together.

Love God, Serve Others: Andrea's Project

City rooftop view in Israel

Reflections on a Gap Year in Israel

Symbols of various faith traditions, drawn by hand in red, yellow, and turquoise

Importance of Storytelling in Interfaith Dialogue

An embroidered pouch and leather straps

The Phylacteries of Dialogue - תפילין הדי×לוג

Hands forming a heart, facing up to the sky

In Faiths We Find Unity

Movement Chaplaincy Visioning Projects

What is a chaplain? A spiritual care provider who supports individuals in a secular setting. What is movement chaplaincy? Spiritual care workers supporting people doing all kinds of social and environmental justice work. This field has historical roots in the Civil Rights Movement, in which Black churches provided activists with resting places to recover from the emotional tolls of their work. Today, movement chaplains come from all backgrounds and belief systems and meet people with diverse faith identities, social causes, and needs where they are at.

In this course, participants learned a variety of skills to help them relieve the exhaustion, discouragement, and emotional distress that often comes with justice work. This included creating relevant and inspiring rituals, leading spiritually centering activities, diffusing tension, and witnessing others' experiences to help heal emotional pain. Toward the end of the course, they created final "visioning" projects, in which they presented a conceptualization of the movement chaplaincy work they imagined doing in their own lives. 

Excerpt from "Down River" by Mary (last name unavailable).

Down River

Aloe plant by Madelyn Koff

Self-Keeping

two old journals stacked on wooden floor beside white wildflowers.

Holding Space

Liberating Theology by Candice Wendt

Liberating Theology

Spiritual Toolbox by Erika Liang

Spiritual Toolbox

Red pouch with contents on top: 3 smooth rocks, electric candle and 3 wooden cutouts of butterfly, owl, and leaf.

Movement Chaplaincy Toolkit
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