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"Trauma and Spirituality: Building Capacity among Theological Schools to be Agents of Transformation" is the first in a multi-part webinar series designed to raise awareness about the impact of trauma and its various manifestations among diverse students and faculty of ATS member schools. The webinar will engage leaders of these schools in conversation that will help them recognize the presence and impact of trauma within theological institutions and the capacity of spirituality in generating resilience and well-being as holistic responses that build capacity for transformative action. It will also highlight the interconnected nature of the Standards of Accreditation to the issues of trauma and spirituality. Denis Robinson, OSB, president/rector of Saint Meinrad’s Seminary, will join the panelists to offer a brief testimonial on the significance and challenges of addressing trauma and spirituality in the context of theological formation in a Roman Catholic seminary.
The deadline to register is Sunday, November 5.
A link to a pre-recorded presentation by the panel will be sent on November 6 to all registrants. On November 16, a live webinar will be held for attendees to engage with the panelists and one another in response to the presentation.
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Jessica Young Brown serves as assistant professor of psychology and director of undergraduate internships at Virginia Commonwealth University. She teaches in the areas of formation, pastoral care, and Christian education. Brown's work focuses on examining issues at the intersection of faith and mental health, including faith-related mental health stigma, spiritually informed therapy, pastoral care practices in churches, and pastors' vocational experiences. She is the author of Making Space at the Well: Mental Health and the Church (Judson Press). Brown earned her PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Oliver McMahan is professor of clinical mental health counseling and liaison to the president for institutional effectiveness and accreditation at Pentecostal Theological Seminary. He was the founder and is a core faculty member of the Master of Arts in clinical mental health counseling, a CACREP accredited program. He has more than 25 years of experience as a pastor, associate, evangelist, consultant, and seminar leader. He has been a member of the ATS Board of Commissioners, vice-chair of the redevelopment task force for the ATS Standards of Accreditation (2020), a former chair of the ATS Committee on Race and Ethnicity, and various other ATS projects and initiatives. He founded and directed the Seminary Counseling Center, has been a board chair and member for Behavioral Research Services in Cleveland, Tennessee, and has a private counseling practice. He has served on the editorial review board for the journal, Counseling and Values—the journal of the Association of Spirituality, Ethics and Religion Values in Counseling of the American Counseling Association. His published writings include Becoming a Shepherd (1995), Scriptural Counseling (1995), Deepening Discipleship (2000), The Caring Church (2002), The Caring Christian (2004), full quarter expositions in the Evangelical Sunday School Lesson Commentary (1982–2002), A Disciplined People, A Pentecostal Study of the Spiritual Disciplines, and was an editor and author for definitions and articles in the Complete Biblical Library (Greek and Hebrew) (1991). McMahan received his MDiv and DMin from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University and his PhD in counseling from Georgia State University.
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David C. Wang is the Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair of the formation of emotionally healthy leaders at Fuller Theological Seminary, where his academic and applied work focuses on the holistic formation of Christian leaders, inclusive of the formation of emotional health and resilience alongside the leader’s intellectual and spiritual formation. With this expertise, Wang helped draft the accreditation standards of The Association of Theological Schools pertaining to the spiritual formation of seminary students. He also serves on the advisory board of the ATS Global Awareness and Engagement Initiative, where he is supporting efforts to bring together global theological educators to better understand and support the unique spiritual and developmental needs of diverse Christian leaders around the world. He serves as editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, is a licensed psychologist who maintains a small clinical practice, and is pastor of spiritual formation at One Life City Church. Wang oversees the Seminary Formation Assessment Project, a program of research funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which conducts longitudinal empirical research on the human and spiritual formation of students enrolled in 18 North American seminaries representing a variety of backgrounds including Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, and Roman Catholic. Wang is also co-principal investigator of the Trauma-Resilient Church Collective Program, a five-year project funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. mobilizing diverse local congregations to address both individual and systemic factors as they meet the spiritual and mental health needs of trauma survivors. He earned a PhD from the University of Houston and a ThM from Regent College (Vancouver, British Columbia).
CONTACT:
Alyson Barra
Date & Time
Thu, Nov 16, 2023
, 2:00 p.m. ET —
Thu, Nov 16, 2023
, 3:15 p.m. ET
Location
Zoom