If you are interested in serving as spiritual, emotional and healing support to people before, during or after protests, this training is for you. Geared toward clergy, lay leaders and faith/spiritually based organizers or activists who want to serve movements for justice with accompaniment, care, listening, healing spaces and more.

Faith Matters Network is working to equip and support those serving in the emerging vocational role of movement chaplain— those who offer accompaniment — spiritual, emotional, relational and practical care — to those in social change events, organizations, and movements.

We recommended that participants:

Have education/training and a consistent practice in a religious/spiritual tradition

Have some experience engaging social movements

Are connected to local movements or a faith/spiritual community with a justice focus or ministry

This training is open to people of all spiritual, religious traditions, genders, sexualities, races and ethnicities and this openness to all is our baseline expectation for all participants. You can learn more about your facilitators Micky, Hilary and Margaret at FaithMattersNetwork.org.

Event Details

Tuesday, June 23rd

6:00-7:30pm Eastern Standard Time

Registration will close at 6:00 pm EST on Monday, June 22nd.

Registrants will receive Zoom login information by 9am on Tuesday, June 23rd.

Webinar will be recorded and shared with all registered participants.

*Spanish translation available upon request. If needed, please e-mail Ristina Gooden at ristina@faithmattersnetwork.org.

Things to Note

Seats are limited. A waitlist will be available once capacity is reached.

This is not a full movement chaplaincy training. This is a rapid response offering in this moment for how to offer healing and resilience in the midst of continuous trauma and heightened awareness of that.

We are limiting registration to those who are already embedded in faith or organizing communities in some way. In other words, this training is not for those who are new to movement care, protest, and / or activism. If you are newer to this work, please consider registering for the full movement chaplaincy training course in October. Please find more details here.

Monthly trainings will be offered based on interest. If your community or organization would like to host a training, email ristina@faithmattersnetwork.org for more information.

Daring Compassion for the Moment: Principles of Movement Chaplaincy