Sacred Spaces, Safe Spaces: Bridging Faith and Mental Health is an interactive workshop designed to help faith leaders, laypersons, chaplains, and community organizers support individuals facing mental health and addiction challenges. Grounded in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI), this session will equip participants with skills to validate emotions while encouraging meaningful change, navigate difficult conversations with empathy, and recognize when professional intervention is necessary. Through role-playing exercises and real-world case studies, attendees will practice distress tolerance strategies, strengthen their ability to support those in crisis, and learn how to guide individuals toward professional care while maintaining a safe and compassionate faith-based environment. This workshop is made possible by a generous grant from the McCullough-Hyde Foundation and the Interfaith Center’s “Building Healthy Communities: Strategies and Resources for Faith Communities” project.
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The great world religions share many common themes, metaphors and symbols. Yet In each religion, and in world religion classes, most of the time is spent learning how the great world religions are different. This presentation will focus on the teachings, metaphors and symbols the great religions have in common. Passages from various scriptures will be used as a basis for audience participation and discussion.
“The Earth is Not a Collection of Objects but a Communion of Subjects”
Mary Evelyn Tucker is the co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University with her husband, John Allen Grim. Tucker teaches in the joint Master’s program in religion and ecology at Yale between the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the Divinity School. She has written extensively about Thomas Berry and will present his views on the Rights of Nature.
This presentation will be hosted at Imago over Zoom.
This is the first of a three part series of First Friday Conversations focusing on the Rights of Nature.
This presentation is provided in the realm of the gift economy. We will happily accept what you can give for the workshop.
Potluck at 6:00 and presentation at 7:00.
“The Earth is Not a Collection of Objects but a Communion of Subjects”
Mary Evelyn Tucker is the co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University with her husband, John Allen Grim. Tucker teaches in the joint Master’s program in religion and ecology at Yale between the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the Divinity School. She has written extensively about Thomas Berry and will present his views on the Rights of Nature.
This presentation will be hosted at Imago over Zoom.
This is the first of a three part series of First Friday Conversations focusing on the Rights of Nature.
This presentation is provided in the realm of the gift economy. We will happily accept what you can give for the workshop.
Potluck at 6:00 and presentation at 7:00.
