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Transforming Behaviors from the Inside Out: A Review of Misconduct Management Strategies and New Group Curriculum
No full textMisconduct behavior occurs when an individual violates the rules or regulations of a restrictive environment, like a prison. Finding effective means to address misconduct behavior within a prison setting has been identified as a significant concern for the administration, as previous behavior change models have not produced lasting results. The following project reviews pertinent aspects of prison management strategies, theoretical perspectives on misconduct, and adolescent development factors. The resulting original contribution to practice, a group curriculum designed to address misconduct behavior, utilizes a Mind-Body skills group approach to teach group members how to raise self-awareness. Program development is explored with the included survey intended for professionals working with incarcerated adolescents
Well-Regulated for Well-Being: Public Health and the Public Good in 19th and Early 20th Century American Caselaw
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No full text1. Room 203: “The Role of the Body in Religious and Nonreligious Spiritual Practices with Jen Kilps, Ph.D., Network Executive, Minnesota Multifaith Network (MnMN)
As humans, we long for understanding and connection with what is wonderous, transcendent, or divine. In Western culture there is an emphasis on the mind as the primary vehicle to access wonder and divinity over and above that which we perceive via the body and its physical senses. Spiritual practices that engage physicality provide another way of knowing, or experiencing, that wonder. Movement, scent, voicing sound, listening, meditation, and touch all offer means of understanding that are found in religious traditions around the world. In this session, participants will explore several of these practices and cultivate their our own \u27senses\u27 of wonder.
Jen Kilps currently serves as the Network Executive for the Minnesota Multifaith Network. She has spent the entirety of her career organizing faith communities and volunteers around issues of peace and social justice. Jen has worked for the Lutheran Office for Public Policy in WI, Lutheran Volunteer Corps, Minnesota Council of Churches Refugee Services Program, and the national Church World Service Refugee Resettlement Program. Jen holds a doctorate in theology from the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland where her research focused on the topic of hospitality. She has taught World Religions and Anthropology of Religion. Jen currently serves on the Collegeville Institute Multi-Religious Fellows Advisory Board, is an Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) facilitator and trained as an End of Life Doula through the University of Vermont’s Medical School. She considers interfaith work her vocation.
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2. Room 201: “Cultivating Curiosity through Storytelling and Active Listening for Empathetic Interfaith Engagement” with Jane Ulring, Managing director of Interfaith Institute at Augsburg University
Curiosity is a foundational skill for forging trusting relationships, as well as a powerful antidote to biases that cause harm and severely limit collaboration across and within difference. In this session, participants will have the opportunity to practice and build their curiosity skill set (with special regard for meaningfully engaging religious/spiritual/worldview diversity) through guided self-reflection and storytelling.
Jane Ulring is the Managing Director of Augsburg University’s Interfaith Institute, where she manages campus based and regional interfaith programming, and develops congregational and community partnerships. Her work is committed to cultivating a thriving interfaith campus community inclusive of a wide range of traditions, voices, and forms of practice and belief. Jane’s personal passions lie at the intersection of interfaith activism, care for creation, and mutual healing from colonial violence. She is committed to work braiding religious diversity, public service, and justice for Earth’s communities. She is a fierce advocate for sacred play and when she\u27s not at work you\u27ll find her rock climbing, making music, walking in the woods, and communing with trees. Jane Ulring holds a B.A. in philosophy from Augsburg University and a Master of Divinity in social ethics from Union Theological Seminary.
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3. Room 205: “Navigating Difficult Conversations: Communication for Interfaith Peacebuilding” with Najeeba Syeed, El-Hibri endowed chair, full professor and executive director of Interfaith Institute at Augsburg University
In this session, interaction with the speaker and between participants will be emphasized. This is a skills-based workshop that focus on 1) diagnosing the stage of conflict from discomfort to crisis, 2) developing intervention plans for addressing difficult conversations, 3) practicing foundational skills for managing interfaith conflicts and conversations, 4) designing encounters that foster trust and care in times of trauma. Participants will use case studies from their own lives and from the speaker\u27s toolbox. Be ready to interact, enjoy and have fun as we spend time together learning and growing together.
Najeeba is the inaugural El-Hibri endowed chair, a full professor and executive director of Interfaith Institute at Augsburg University. She has been a professor, expert practitioner and public speaker for the last two decades in the fields of conflict resolution, interfaith studies, mediation, education, deliberative democracy, social, gender and racial equity.
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4. Room 204: “Liberative Leadership in Diverse Societies” with Rev. Michael Le Buhn Jr., MDiv., Manager, Spiritual Care, Allina Health West Region
The dictionary definition of liberation includes the process of freeing someone from something that limits their control over their own life. Liberating leaders co-create a culture where everyone\u27s wholeness is invited. This is achieved by the leader\u27s example of being her whole self, thus empowering others to do likewise. Liberative leadership is challenging and requires a tremendous amount of self-examination, self-knowledge, and cultural humility. The benefits are immeasurable, however, as it creates a sense of belonging, enables genuine connection and trust on the team, and discourages injustices from going unaddressed. In this session, participants will discuss becoming liberating leaders by examining three areas of leadership together: social location and biases, accountability and restoration, and leading with vulnerability.
Michael Le Buhn Jr. serves as the Manager of Spiritual Care for Abbott Northwestern and the West Region of Allina Health. He is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and received his Masters of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN). His undergraduate degrees include a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign, IL). Michael previously worked as a chaplain at Open Table Nashville, a non-profit that serves people experiencing homelessness. His experience serving as a hospital chaplain includes intensive care, palliative care, COVID-19, mental health, chemical dependency, and trauma one. Michael is a veteran of the United States Army and former Soldier of the Year for the White House Military Office. His awards and decorations include a Purple Heart, a Combat Action Badge, and a Presidential Service Badge. Professional interests: Public theology, trauma informed care, health equity, Community Health, and Interfaith ministry. Personal interests: comic books, gardening, vegan cuisine, live music, and stand-up comedy
University Housing Reinforces the Negative Relationship between Interpersonal Violence, Psychological Distress, and Suicidality in Undergraduates, Particularly among Gender Diverse Students
No full textObjective: To compare academic and mental health outcomes across diverse gender identities in the context of interpersonal violence and campus housing. Participants: 45,549 students from 124 self-selected post-secondary institutions. Methods: Various academic and health measures from the National College Health Assessment Spring 2017 dataset were analyzed for differences across five gender identities (cis women, cis men, transwomen, transmen, and genderqueer students), and two housing categories (university housing and non-university housing). Results: When compared to cisgender peers, gender diverse students reported greater experiences of interpersonal violence and higher levels of negative academic and mental health outcomes. Living in university housing was associated with an increase in these disparities. Conclusions: University housing, which usually reinforces fixed gender binaries, is associated with worse outcomes for gender diverse students. These data can help higher education institutions better understand and address problems that disproportionately impact transgender and gender diverse students, who represent a growing demographic
Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy in Religiously Diverse Societies
No full textThe recent open-access volume Complexities of Spiritual Care in Plural Societies: Education, Praxis and Concepts (De Gruyter, 2022) contributes to an emerging field that could be referred to as plural spiritual care and chaplaincy, by innovatively bringing together contributions from a broad range of contexts and religious traditions. Including empirical work and conceptual explorations, the volume helps to fill the gap between practices and developments related to plural spiritual care and chaplaincy in the scholarly discourse, and their application for practitioners serving religiously diverse populations in health and chaplaincy settings. In this webinar, editor Anne Hege Grung will introduce the book and project, contributor Nazila Isgandarova will discuss female voices in Islamic spiritual care, and contributor Su Yon Pak will explore Buddhist chaplaincy education at a Protestant seminary. Time will be allowed for discussion and questions.
Anne Hege Grung is Professor of Interreligious Studies and Dean of Research in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. She holds a PhD in interreligious studies. In 2019 she was pivotal in establishing the master program “Leadership, ethics and counselling” at the University of Oslo, which provides training in chaplaincy and spiritual and existential care for a religiously diverse student group. She was the chair of the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS) 2017–2022 and is presently a member of the Steering Committee for the unit Interfaith and Interreligious Studies in the American Academy of Religion.
Nazila Isgandarova has a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, a Doctor of Ministry degree in pastoral counselling, marriage and family studies from Wilfred Laurier University, and a Master of Social Work from the University of Windsor. She is a Registered Psychotherapist and a Registered Social Worker. Nazila is the recipient of The Order of Vaughan, which is the highest civic honour in Vaughan, Ontario, and the prestigious Forum for Theological Exploration research award for her study on domestic violence against Muslim women, the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care Senior Research Award and the Society for Pastoral Counselling Research Award. Nazila is an Assistant Professor and Master of Pastoral Studies Program at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Her book, titled Muslim Women, Domestic Violence, and Psychotherapy: Theological and Clinical Issues, was published by Routledge in 2018 and Islamic Spiritual Care: Theory and Practices by Pandora Press in 2019.
Su Yon Pak is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Dr. Su Yon Pak holds an Ed.D from the joint program of Teachers College Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. She has revitalized the curricular and co-curricular work of field education. She was pivotal in creating the new chaplaincy concentration at Union and is the senior advisor to the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab. Her latest publication is a co-authored and co-edited volume, Sisters in Mourning: Daughters Reflection on Care, Loss, and Meaning (Cascade, 2021). Her research interests include aging and spirituality, Asian/Asian American women and leadership, integrative education pedagogies, interreligious chaplaincy education, and poetry as theological reflection.
Organized and hosted by: Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Well-Being, the Theology Department, and the Luann Dummer Center for Women at the University of St. Thomas and the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at Saint John\u27s University (Minnesota, USA) Centre for Christian Engagement, St. Mark\u27s College at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo (Norway
The Experience of Humanitarian Leaders in Managing Cultural Diversity
Full text linkThe world is becoming increasingly more diverse, particularly in the workplace. Existing literature on diversity tends to focus on the visible types of diversity such as gender, race, and color from the for-profit business perspective. There is little research on the impact of the invisible type of diversity such as culture and national origin. Cultural diversity has rarely been studied in the context of non-profit international humanitarian organizations. These organizations face unique management challenges due to their volatile and chaotic environment with limited power and resources. Applying a control-oriented and normative management approach proved to be ineffective. Thus, there is a need for further research tailored to international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (IHNGOs). This study aimed to highlight the role of IHNGOs’ leaders in cultural diversity management. The study found cultural diversity management is a very challenging process. It identified five components for successful cultural diversity management. When diversity is managed properly the study found it pays off. Developing a critical mind and broadening perspective are some of the impacts of longtime exposure to different cultures. Another finding of the study is that dominant culture has a negative impact on leaders from a minority background. This qualitative research of narrative inquiry used interviews as an exclusive data collection method to capture the unique experiences of seven CEOs of IHNGOs. The implication for the practice of this study shows the challenging nature of the cultural diversity management process, thus it prepares leaders mentally. In addition, it provides a formula for success and a list of needed skills and competencies to succeed in managing culturally diverse teams
