The Seattle School is an interdisciplinary graduate school and seminary offering immersive, holistic graduate degree programs in counseling psychology, divinity, theology, and culture. Discover your calling, and hone your craft with us.
We began as a gathering of a few passionate dreamers who imagined a new kind of theological and psychological training—embracing the human story, in its beauty and complexity.
Alumni leading in the field as pastors, counselors, artists, and leaders.
Our AlumniThe year our school began and matriculated our first cohort.
Our Story“The prophet is not an outsider throwing rocks, nor a comfortable insider who defends the status quo; but one who lives precariously with two perspectives held tightly together in a loving and creative tension: the faithful insider and the critical outsider. ”
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At The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, we train people to attune to the heartbeat of a hurting world, knowing that this can only happen when we are also attuned to our own heartbeats—the joy, pain, grief, and hope of what it means to be human. Our entire learning model is grounded in that conviction.
The Seattle School trains pastors, therapists, leaders, and artists who are attuned to both the beauty and the brokenness in their own stories and in the world around them. As we near the end of our 21st year, would you consider partnering with us to help build the bridge to our future? Learn how at theseattleschool.edu/give.
We are led by our alumni. When you give to The Seattle School, you join us in sending women and men into their communities with the capacity to change and be changed by their world.
We live in a complex world. Engaging the beauty, complexity, and brokenness in ourselves and in the people around us requires a new kind of education—one that is robustly Christian, deeply questioning, and profoundly human. If you are seeking to deepen your capacity to work as a therapist, pastor, artist, leader, or healer, we invite you to join us at the intersection of text, soul, and culture.
On May 7, Kate Rae Davis, Director of Resilient Leaders Project and Dr. J. Derek McNeil, President and Provost of The Seattle School, talked about the ways crisis can accelerate transformation and their hopes for positive change in our lives, city, and world. This was the second installment of the “Resilience in Crisis” webinar series, […]
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology has decided to move forward to deliver classes online through December 2020 amid the uncertainty of COVID-19. “In this season, we are all grieving our ability to be together, and we are anxious to return to campus. This is a season of much uncertainty, and even when we […]
Our sacred mission is one of building capacity to think, empathize, and mindfully engage amid pain, trauma, and injustice. Our immersive, interdisciplinary education model develops adaptive, embodied practitioners.
“My professors at The Seattle School are not only invested in my classroom learning, but in my becoming more fully who I am, and doing that with grace and patience. I feel called to work with people in such a way that it leads unto joy — and not cheap joy. My primary excitement is being alongside people during the impossible work of lament. ”
Carrie Cates, MDiv '17
Explore the use of the Bible in relation to contemporary social issues, including: racism; poverty; sexism; gender violence; and sexual orientation in light of a Christocentric Theological Anthropology.
Human Sexuality asks questions about the nature of biological sexuality, sexual preference, sexual identity, and desire, and seeks to explore multiple perspectives to attempt to understand such questions from scientific research, developmental theory, cultural influences, and relational experience.
Examine the literary legacy of one the twentieth century's foremost Christian authors, and explore his perspectives on God, humanity, nature, love, heaven, hell, prayer, pain and suffering, and ethics.
Prayerfully discern, with other people of faith, how faithful presence might look within the particularity of your unique context, and develop a practical spirituality for following Christ by loving God through loving your neighbor amidst COVID19.
