Program Zones
Our Program Zones
Public Conversations
and Ritual
Drawing together leading thinkers, authors, scholars, and practitioners, usually in online spaces, we host and facilitate public conversations and rituals focusing on themes related to spiritual leadership and the climate crisis. Examples include our five-part “Lament With Earth” online ritual series, our podcast called Climate Changed, online public conversations with acclaimed authors and teachers, book studies, and our Fiction Book Club
Leadership
Formation
We offer learning communities and cohorts, workshops, retreats, and other programs of spiritual and vocational formation for congregational clergy, chaplains, spiritual directors, engaged laypersons, and denominational leaders. Examples include our EcoPreacher Cohort and preaching workshops, Chaplaincy Conversation Circles, online workshops for chaplains and other spiritual caregivers, and Spiritual Accompaniment Circles.
Congregational
Vocation
We offer programs and resources that help congregations discern their particular vocation in this time of rapid, traumatic, transformative change. Aware that geography significantly impacts identity and practice, at times these programs are oriented particularly toward New England settings. Examples include our annual Green Teams Gathering, our Claiming Your Call for a Climate-Changed World retreat, and our Leadership Commons.
Applied Research
We approach our work with a posture of “rigorous and reverent curiosity,” asking important questions about spiritual leadership in a climate-changed world, surfacing stories, collecting data, drawing conclusions, and sharing findings. Our research aims to be co-productive, meaning that we draw practitioners into the process, and our primary audience for our research is practitioners themselves.