While many agencies providing services and supports recognize the right to religious freedom, they seldom include spirituality in individual planning. Nor do they often help people participate in the spiritual activities or religious communities of their choice and/or tradition. Individuals and their families also often face a mixed response from congregations, even though many congregations and faith networks have established model programs and strategies for including people with disabilities.
This webinar series from Collaborative on Faith and Disability explores these dynamics and include the following on-demand webinars:
- Including Spirituality in Assessment, Evaluation, and Person-Centered Planning Processes
- Creative Strategies by Provider and Service Organizations in Addressing Spiritual Needs and Choices
- Congregational Strategies for Reaching Out to Agencies and Working With Them to Identify and Honor Spiritual Supports and Enable Inclusion and Ongoing Participation
- Strategies for Congregations to Use in Building Awareness and Commitment Within Congregation
- Best Practices and Resources for Moving From Inclusion to Belonging as Contributing, Valued Members of Faith Communities
The mission of the Collaborative on Faith and Disability is to support people with disabilities, their families, and those who support them by providing national and international leadership in the areas of research, education, service, and dissemination related to disability, religion, and inclusive supports.
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Emotional Intelligence for a Compassionate World (Charter for Compassion Education Institute)
This online course is from the Compassion Education Institute and was created in partnership with the Charter for Compassion International. This engaging, informative, online course is the beginning of your personal journey to a more compassionate world—an opportunity to understand and nurture your own emotions and develop your ability to empathize and act with compassion.
In this online course, you’re invited to explore opportunities to use that compassion for creating a better world—for making a difference where you live. Whether you’re a child of the sixties or a forward thinking member of the X, Y, or Z generations, if you have dreamed of making a difference in the world, this course is for you.
The course structure follows the five major aspects of Emotional Intelligence as defined by the Success Model of Emotional Intelligence. It includes a self-assessment of Emotional Intelligence skills and a final Action Plan for using those skills for a more compassionate world.
How Does This Course Work?
- The 7 lessons of Emotional Intelligence for a Compassionate World are completely online—with easily downloadable exercises and reflections
- You can access lessons from anywhere and at any time as long as you have an internet connection. Simple!
- You work through each lesson at you own pace during the week, adding comments and questions
- This is a self-paced course, so if you get behind, you can catch up at any time and review past lessons at your convenience.
This online course includes:
- Access to content, activities, and downloadable exercises in 7 online lessons
- 30-item self-assessment in Emotional Intelligence
- More than 50 practical, easy-to-implement techniques you can begin using today
- Action Plan guide and Plan for Compassionate Action guide
- Certificate of Completion from the Charter for Compassion International
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Presbyterian Churches and Solar Energy (Presbyterian Church )
In this on-demand webinar, five PC(USA) congregations share stories and photos of their solar panels at church, including how they made the decision to invest in solar, how they financed their project, what benefits they’ve experienced, and what other energy efficiency measures they completed.
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Disclaimer: Sacred Space Online Learning (SSOL) seeks to provide individuals with information about religious, spiritual, or faith-based online resources from a variety of sources. Sacred Space Online Learning does NOT claim ownership over this online course or online offering. Sacred Space Online Learning is also NOT responsible for the accuracy of the materials, the content, the way they are advertised or taught, or the costs associated with this online course or offering. The views and opinions expressed in this online course or offering are those of the creators and/or the persons appearing in the online class or offering. They do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of SSOL, the OFLD, or MCC. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the creator(s) of the given online course or online offering.
Post-Everything (Church of the Brethren)
There are many ‘posts’: post-industrial, postmodern, post-colonial, post-ideological, postsecular, post-structural, post-denominational, etc. This on-demand webinar offers an opportunity to reflect on some of these – what do they mean and what are the implications for discipleship, mission, and church?
This webinar is led by Stuart Murray Williams. Williams is the author of the books, Post-Christendom and Church after Christendom, and the editor of the After Christendom series. He is Director of the Centre for Anabaptist Studies, Bristol Baptist College. Stuart is a trainer/consultant with the Anabaptist Network and a Coordinator of Urban Expression, UK.
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Disclaimer: Sacred Space Online Learning (SSOL) seeks to provide individuals with information about religious, spiritual, or faith-based online resources from a variety of sources. Sacred Space Online Learning does NOT claim ownership over this online course or online offering. Sacred Space Online Learning is also NOT responsible for the accuracy of the materials, the content, the way they are advertised or taught, or the costs associated with this online course or offering. The views and opinions expressed in this online course or offering are those of the creators and/or the persons appearing in the online class or offering. They do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of SSOL, the OFLD, or MCC. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the creator(s) of the given online course or online offering.
Sanctuary: Frequently Asked Questions (Insurance Board)
Heather Kimmel, General Counsel for the United Church of Christ, addresses the current interest of faith communities in operating as sanctuary churches, the legal risks, and ways churches can minister to undocumented persons.
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Disclaimer: Sacred Space Online Learning (SSOL) seeks to provide individuals with information about religious, spiritual, or faith-based online resources from a variety of sources. Sacred Space Online Learning does NOT claim ownership over this online course or online offering. Sacred Space Online Learning is also NOT responsible for the accuracy of the materials, the content, the way they are advertised or taught, or the costs associated with this online course or offering. The views and opinions expressed in this online course or offering are those of the creators and/or the persons appearing in the online class or offering. They do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of SSOL, the OFLD, or MCC. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the creator(s) of the given online course or online offering.
Reclaim Confession as a Progressive Practice for Lent (Center for Progressive Renewal)
In this on-demand webinar you will learn how you can reclaim confession as a progressive Christian practice, talk about the ‘vulnerability revolution’ in secular culture and how our churches can benefit and grow from walking more authentically together, while going through a step-by-step practical approach for experimenting with testimony in your community this Lent, or at any time of year.
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Disclaimer: Sacred Space Online Learning (SSOL) seeks to provide individuals with information about religious, spiritual, or faith-based online resources from a variety of sources. Sacred Space Online Learning does NOT claim ownership over this online course or online offering. Sacred Space Online Learning is also NOT responsible for the accuracy of the materials, the content, the way they are advertised or taught, or the costs associated with this online course or offering. The views and opinions expressed in this online course or offering are those of the creators and/or the persons appearing in the online class or offering. They do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of SSOL, the OFLD, or MCC. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the creator(s) of the given online course or online offering.
The Moral Imperative of Climate Change (Metropolitan Community Church)
The study of climate change is developing very quickly. Significant new information is coming out—literally—every day. This on-demand webinar explains the basics, but it also mixes in some new information to help to provide viewers with an understanding of the world and our future.
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Presenter: Dr. Stephen Mitchell Wagener
Dr. Mitch Wagener teaches climate ecology, entomology, and related courses at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. His research interests include the impact of historical events—such as the Industrial Revolution—on the environment.
Mitch began life in the Midwest, growing up a barefoot boy in the Ozarks and attending high school in Branson, Missouri—before it became so famous. After graduating from the University of Missouri with a degree in Fisheries and Wildlife, he moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to attend graduate school. Mitch received a masters degree in Stream Ecology and a doctorate in Soil Ecology during his 13 years in Alaska. There, too, he met the lovely Rita Kabali, a native of Uganda, East Africa, to whom he has now been married 33 years. They have two lively daughters, Rohanna 27 (a history teacher in an inner-city middle school) and Danika 19 (a student at Ithaca College). Mitch enjoys—among other things—watching his daughter play lacrosse and explaining climate change to the public.
Ph.D. Soil Ecology. August 1995. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
M.S. Stream Ecology. December, 1984. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
B.S. cum laude. Fisheries and Wildlife. May, 1981. University of Missouri, Columbia.
Extreme Prejudice (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
Lack of education about religious diversity has left students—particularly Muslim and Sikh students—vulnerable to bias and bullying by classmates and teachers who don’t understand the full context of religious extremism. This hostility can make it difficult for students to learn and even puts their physical safety in jeopardy. Expanding your students’ knowledge of world religions—and the diversity that exists within them—is critical to combating these dangerous stereotypes and fostering empathy in the school community. This on-demand webinar is from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding and it explores strategies that can help you teach about extremism accurately and safely, such as discussing extremism across multiple religions, examining the economic and political contexts in which extremism arises, highlighting religious peacemakers and empowering your students to make their school more inclusive.
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Religious Freedom and LGBT Equality (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
This on-demand webinar demonstrated classroom activities that can engage students in understanding primary sources, recognizing patterns and trends across time, and evaluating how some religious freedom claims contribute to the backlash against the advancement of LGBT rights. Special guest speaker was David Dinielli, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s LGBT Rights Project.
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Disclaimer: Sacred Space Online Learning (SSOL) seeks to provide individuals with information about religious, spiritual, or faith-based online resources from a variety of sources. Sacred Space Online Learning does NOT claim ownership over this online course or online offering. Sacred Space Online Learning is also NOT responsible for the accuracy of the materials, the content, the way they are advertised or taught, or the costs associated with this online course or offering. The views and opinions expressed in this online course or offering are those of the creators and/or the persons appearing in the online class or offering. They do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of SSOL, the OFLD, or MCC. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the creator(s) of the given online course or online offering.
Science and Religion (Great Courses)
Professor Lawrence M. Principe unfolds a surprisingly cooperative dynamic in which theologians and natural scientists share methods, ideas, aspirations, and a tradition of disputational dialogue.
You will explore questions that are important to all religions, but the focus is on interactions in the “Latin West” where modern science largely took root. This includes formerly Latin-speaking Western European and Mediterranean regions, and the offspring of European culture, North America. The course spotlights the predominant religion of these lands: Christianity.
Our search is punctuated by Professor Principe’s wit and passion.
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Disclaimer: Sacred Space Online Learning (SSOL) seeks to provide individuals with information about religious, spiritual, or faith-based online resources from a variety of sources. Sacred Space Online Learning does NOT claim ownership over this online course or online offering. Sacred Space Online Learning is also NOT responsible for the accuracy of the materials, the content, the way they are advertised or taught, or the costs associated with this online course or offering. The views and opinions expressed in this online course or offering are those of the creators and/or the persons appearing in the online class or offering. They do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of SSOL, the OFLD, or MCC. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the creator(s) of the given online course or online offering.
