In January 2024, The Seattle School held the second annual Day of Scholarship on campus during Winter Residency. This year’s theme of “What If There’s More?” aimed to connect Seattle School community members to wider disciplinary and interdisciplinary conversations across our institution. Current students, alumni, staff, and faculty presented Research Posters and facilitated Breakout Sessions, discussing aspects of their research, work, and publications. The Day of Scholarship fostered a spirit of collaboration as presenters engaged community members in exploring key questions. The tables below represent the work shared at Day of Scholarship 2024 through Research Posters and Breakout Sessions. In its second year, this event once again brought together participants and presenters from across The Seattle School community, including the Allender Center, The Other Journal, and Christ & Cascadia as well as staff, faculty, alumni, and current students.
Day of Scholarship 2024 Breakout Session Presenters
| Session Presenter(s) | Affiliation | Session Title | Notes |
| Maggie Hemphill, MACP candidate,
Addie Murney, MA |
Allender Center Facilitator, Student (Hemphill) | “Engaging Whiteness with StoryWork: Applying Narrative Focused Trauma Care to White Cultural Identity Development” | Maggie Hemphill’s website. |
| Paul Hoard, PhD, LMHC, Paul Steinke, MACS ’05, MACP ’23, LMHCA |
Faculty (Hoard), Alumni, Staff (Steinke) | “The Thin Space of Play” | Writings by the authors include: Board Games as Liturgy (Hoard, Steinke), Lacanian Virtue Ethics Cultivating Virtue through Failure (Hoard, Suttle), Paul Hoard’s Substack
Check out upcoming issues of Christ & Cascadia (April) and The Other Journal (spring 2024) for additional writings. |
| Angela Parker, PhD | Faculty (also Grenz Lecturer) | “Continuing the Conversation with Dr. Parker” | Grenz Lecture 2024 |
| Ann Plana, MACP Candidate,
Lisa Watkins, MACP Candidate |
Student | “Educational Application of Fowler’s Faith Development Theory (Theory to Practice)” | MACP Candidates (Plana, Watkins), Concentration in Psychoanalytic Psychology: British Object Relations (Plana) |
| Scott Ross, MACP ’11, LMHC Erin Wright, MACP ’11 LMHC |
Alumni | “What Lies Beyond: A Journey into Psychedelic Therapies with Ketamine and MDMA” | Telos Collective and Salish Sea Counseling (Ross) |
| Lauren St. Martin, MAT
Zac Settle, PhD |
Staff | “Christ & Cascadia and The Other Journal on the Publishing Process” | Presentation Slides Managing Editor, Christ & Cascadia (St. Martin) Christ & Cascadia website Settle–Editor-in-Chief, The Other Journal (Settle) Submissions page for The Other Journal |
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Doug Shirley, MDiv ’06, EdD Eric Strom, JD, PhD Shaquille Sinclair, MACP ’23 Marlene Chamonica Hernandez, BS, MACP Candidate |
Faculty (Shirley) Alumni (Shirley, Sinclair), Student (Hernandez) | “Are We OK? Potential Impacts of Telehealth Structural Changes on Clinician Wellness” | Presented at AMHCA Conference 2023 |
| Luke Winslow, MATC ’18 | Alumni | “Where Ancestors Still Walk: Practical Theologies for Decolonial Solidarity and Bioregional Discipleship in Seattle and Beyond” | Slides |
| Lauren D. Sawyer MATC ’14, PhD,
Danielle Zurinsky, MSc, PhD |
Allender Center, Alumni (Sawyer) | “NFTC Methodology Project: A Case Study for Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Research” | Curriculum Coordinator for the Allender Center(Sawyer)
Manager of Research & Facilitator Development(Zurinsky) |
Day of Scholarship 2024 Poster Presenters
| Poster Presenter(s) | Affiliation | Poster Title | Notes |
| Tessa Behr, BA in Visual Design, MACP Candidate | Student | “Beyond Black & White Binary Thinking: Color as a Map for New Possibilities “ | Founder and Brand Director for Anatomy Branding Co |
| Belinda J. Bauman, M Ed. | Student | “When My Soul Sings: How New Americans Construct Meaning from Their Migration Experiences” | |
| Phillip Hanson, MACP Candidate | Student | “A Psychology with Willie James Jennings” | Related Essay |
| Maggie Hemphill, MACP Candidate, Ann Plana, MACP Candidate, Kate Roberts, MACP Candidate, |
Student | “Experiences in Infant Observation” | MACP Candidates – Concentration in Psychoanalytic Psychology: British Object Relations (Hemphill, Plana, Roberts) |
| Kristen Houston, MA
Kelsey Wallace, MDiv, PhD |
Staff, Former Staff | “Evolving Trends in Accessing Graduate School Education“ | Former Registrar (Houston) and Registrar (Wallace), The Seattle School |
| Victoria Hudson, MA MACP ’22, LMHC (WA), LPC (SC), Certified Sex Therapist | Alumni | “The Intersections of Attachment Style & Sexual Behaviors, a Non-Stigmatizing Perspective on Compatibility and Sexual Engagement” | Resource: Sex therapy education |
| Danielle Zurinsky, MSc, PhD | Allender Center Staff | “Assessing Learning & Skills from the Narrative Focused Trauma Care Training Program” | Manager of Research & Facilitator Development, Allender Center |