SEL by the Numbers
Imagine an 11-year-old boy named Matteo. Matteo is in a new school this year; he lives with his abuela during the week because his mother works both days and nights to provide for him, and he is an only child. Matteo is anxious about making new friends and he is also anxious about math, a subject he has struggled with the last few years.
Education for Well-being
“What I love about this research is that it is framing up outcomes that are relevant to kids now. Usually, it’s what are the outcomes to be successful down the road as opposed to what is meaningful to kids right now, no matter how old they are,” says Education Reimagined President and Founder Kelly Young reflecting on the recent UNICEF report, “What Makes Me? Core Capacities for Living and Learning.”
Love Your Neighbor in a Language They Understand
Fetzer’s involvement in spiritual literacy or “being able to find sacred meaning in all aspects of life”—as Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat define it in their book Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life—has been a longtime pursuit. It is a knowledge base that enlivens our work and relationships, an ongoing study both inspiring and humbling.
Healing Muslim-Christian Relations Through Shared Vulnerability
Recently the Fetzer Institute partnered with the Aspen Institute’s Religion and Society Program and religious freedom legal scholar Asma Uddin to explore how to heal Muslim-Christian relationships. Uddin is a visiting professor at Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law and a fellow at Aspen’s Religion and Society Program.
Compassionate Leadership a Spiritual Innovation?
Compassionate leadership, a rare skill set, is a core competency Uvinie Lubecki is dedicated to making commonplace through her work with Leading Through Connection. No stranger to the business sector, Uvinie has worked in the start-up world selecting, managing, and evaluating innovation projects. She was part of the incubation team at Aetna; head of business strategy and new product innovation at RelayHealth McKesson; and a management consultant on Deloitte’s innovation strategy team.
Beyond Winning and Losing: A New Model for Congressional Training
by Sharif Azami, Senior Program Officer, and Kurian Thomas, Vice President, Spiritual Transformation
What’s Next for the Spiritual Care Providers Network?
This fall, the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab will release an online reader focused on the work of African American chaplains. The online reader is envisioned as a reference for chaplains, students, and educators interested in examining the interplay between race and the history of chaplaincy in the United States.
The Research Behind StoryCorps’ One Small Step Initiative
Recently our partners at StoryCorps shared the research behind its One Small Step (OSS) initiative, which was born out of increasing concern about the growing political divides and contempt in society.
Conversation Circles for Chaplains of Color: Updates, Innovations, and New Groups
This January, The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab (CIL) launched Conversation Circles for Chaplains of Color as part of our work with the Fetzer Institute to support and build networks for spiritual care providers. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial reckoning, and the legacies of racial violence, we decided that our first circles would honor and support the work that chaplains of color do to provide spiritual care for individuals and challenge racial structures.
Conversation Circles for Chaplains of Color
Just shy of a month ago, the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab (CIL) launched the first in a series of Conversation Circles for Chaplains of Color as part of our work with the Fetzer Institute to support and build networks for spiritual care providers.