Join us for Part II of our webinar series, Running on Empty, on the need for faith leaders to prioritize their own mental health.

The pandemic has led to loss after loss for so many people. Faith leaders are looked to for comfort and guidance, all while walking through losses of their own.

For our next webinar in this series, Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. and Duke Divinity School are proud to bring together two experts to discuss grief’s impact on mental health and pastoral care. This webinar is designed to equip faith leaders with tools to process grief and encourage them to continue on the path of healing, so they can continue to care for their congregations and communities.

Part I of our webinar series covered the importance of our faith leaders prioritizing their own mental, physical and spiritual health. View the recording of the first session.

• Speakers

  Reverend Dr. Alfonso Wyatt provides vital leadership to youth, young adults, and professionals in both the sacred and secular communities in New York and around the country. He retired as VP of The Fund for the City of New York after serving over two decades. Dr. Wyatt is founder of Strategic Destiny: Designing Futures Through Faith and Facts. Strategic Destiny finds common language and opportunities for collaboration between socially engaged practitioners motivated by faith and secular practitioners motivated by evidence-based learning. He has mentored thousands ranging from young people in foster care and juvenile detention facilities, to adults in prison, as well as individuals in corporate America, youth serving organizations, the faith community, and mentees receiving their Ph.D. He serves as an adviser and consultant to government, colleges, civic groups, community organizations, public and charter schools, education intermediaries, foundations and the broader faith community.

   

  Dr. Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD is a psychiatrist whose work centers on the role of religious communities in caring for persons with mental health problems and on ways in which Christians engage practices of modern health care. Jointly appointed within Duke Divinity School and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Duke University Medical Center, he is co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative and is a staff psychiatrist at the Durham VA Medical Center. He has written on the moral and theological dimensions of combat trauma and moral injury, on the moral and political context of psychiatric diagnosis, and on the way that St. Thomas Aquinas’ image of the human as wayfarer might inform contemporary practices of ministry and mental health care.