Nurturing mental health with spirituality

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SHELAC Video LaunchThe Spiritual Health Lived Experience Advisory Committee of Spiritual Health Australia has launched a 12-minute video aims to inspire, raise awareness, reduce stigma, and demonstrate the transformative impact of integrating spirituality and spiritual care into mental health services. Despite evidence that supports the positive correlation between health, wellbeing and spirituality, this continues to be neglected in mental health care. To raise awareness by those who know first-hand what supports recovery, the committee decided that their voices and experiences in relation to spirituality needed to be heard.

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Dario Girolami – A Zen Teacher Engaged in Interfaith Work

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Dario GirolamiDario Girolami, Abbot of Centro Zen L’Arco Roma, has been immersing himself in interfaith study, teaching, and social engagement since his college years in Rome. A former San Francisco Zen Center resident who was ordained by Zenkei Blanche Hartman and received Dharma Transmission from Eijun Linda Cutts, he currently is a leader in the international interfaith group Religions for Peace. He is co-president of Religions for Peace Italy and is on the Board of Directors of Religions for Peace Europe.

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Social Development: International Prison Chaplains Association

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A Human Dignity and Faith Perspective on the Eradication of Poverty as one of the main Root Causes of Incarceration in the World.From 5-14 February 2024, delegates from UN Member States, civil society, and other stakeholders will convene at the United Nations headquarters in New York for the 62nd session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD62). The International Prison Chaplains Association will conduct a side-event at the 62nd session of the Commission for Social Development. Their side-event is titled, “A Human Dignity and Faith Perspective on the Eradication of Poverty as one of the main Root Causes of Incarceration in the World.”

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Moral Injury Certificate Program

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Moral Injury Certificate Program


This course is designed to increase participants’ knowledge of trauma, moral distress, and moral injury, drawing from research and work in various disciplines. These disciplines include the fields of social work, psychology, spiritual care, mental health counseling, religion, and arts and healing.

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Hindu Approaches to Spiritual Care

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Hindu Approaches to Spiritual CareHindu Approaches to Spiritual Care is a pioneering volume that sheds light on the foundations, practicalities and growing of Hindu spiritual care in diverse environments. today. There is much-needed wisdom here for the wider Hindu community, but also insights for Chaplains and carers in other faiths. This raises opportunities to rethink and renew ways of spiritual care and practice.

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NSW: Launch of Hindu Chaplaincy

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Hindu Council of Australia is proud to inform the community that we have launched Hindu Chaplaincy officially at Prince of Wales Hospital on Vijayadashami.

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How Do Nonreligious Chaplains Offer Spiritual Care?

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How Do Nonreligious Chaplains Offer Spiritual Care?In times of loss, change, or other challenges, chaplains can listen, provide comfort, and discuss spiritual needs. These spiritual caregivers can be found working in hospitals, universities, prisons, and many other secular settings, serving people of all faiths and those with no faith tradition at all. Yet a common assumption is that chaplains themselves must be grounded in a religious tradition. After all, how can you be a religious leader without religion?

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Understanding Spiritual Abuse

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Te Kupenga Catholic Theological CollegeThe University of Otago – Centre for Theology and Public Issues and Te Kupenga Catholic Theological College are co-hosting an online public lecture, “Understanding Spiritual Abuse” by Professor Lisa Oakley on Tuesday, 8 August 2023

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