Jocelyn Skillman recently had the opportunity to connect with Seattle School alumni Christina Kemp MACP ‘17. Since graduating,Christina has worked as a realtor and an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University in their Department of Psychology. In 2019, she moved from Seattle to Bainbridge Island where she completed her first book. She is currently part of the […]
Counseling Through the Pandemic: Grief and Lament Became Hourly Companions by Cindy Brosh MACP ’05 It was a heartbreaking morning two years ago today as I sat with clients, knowing my dear friend was two miles away at Legacy hospital. He had been living with inclusion-body myositis for fifteen years, and recently had been terrified […]
Few students who complete a Master of Divinity graduate program at The Seattle School remain unchanged. A natural consequence of a program that integrates theology with psychology and culture, our students become uniquely equipped to enter communities with greater depth and understanding of who they are in the story of God, how to practice faithful […]
Few students who complete a Master of Divinity graduate program at The Seattle School remain unchanged. A natural consequence of a program that integrates theology with psychology and culture, our students become uniquely equipped to enter communities with greater depth and understanding of who they are in the story of God, how to practice faithful […]
Boundaries / Maintaining limits on availability and commitments. What does flourishing leadership look like in the real world? Resilient Leaders Project asked alumni of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology about how they’ve flourished while creating contextually-responsive ministry. In listening to these leaders, we found six common themes–practices and ways of being that other […]
Body / Practicing care for the body through movement and tending to pain. What does flourishing leadership look like in the real world? Resilient Leaders Project asked alumni of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology about how they’ve flourished while creating contextually-responsive ministry. In listening to these leaders, we found six common themes–practices and […]
Connection to God / Connecting to and depending on the divine. What does flourishing leadership look like in the real world? Resilient Leaders Project asked alumni of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology about how they’ve flourished while creating contextually-responsive ministry. In listening to these leaders, we found six common themes–practices and ways of […]
Self-Compassion / Tending to the self through vulnerability, especially around needs, shame, and pain. What does flourishing leadership look like in the real world? Resilient Leaders Project asked alumni of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology about how they’ve flourished while creating contextually-responsive ministry. In listening to these leaders, we found six common themes–practices […]
Community / Valuing and cultivating connection, belonging, and collaboration. What does flourishing leadership look like in the real world? Resilient Leaders Project asked alumni of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology about how they’ve flourished while creating contextually-responsive ministry. In listening to these leaders, we found six common themes–practices and ways of being that […]
Identity / Knowing and living into one’s God-given self. To flourish is to find meaning in the midst of struggle, to adapt and grow in response to challenge. In the midst of pandemic, increased awareness of injustice, and the realities of ministry in post-Christian contexts, we don’t lack for challenges! But we do lack a […]
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology has released its second research report to come from Resilient Leaders Project (RLP)—a report that describes what flourishing leadership and contextually-responsive ministry look like through a series of alumni profiles, all peer-identified as “exemplars in resilience.” “In the first Resilience Report, we looked at the big picture of […]
Hannah Martin (MACP ‘20) worked for Resilient Leaders Project during her tenure as a student of The Seattle School. Here, she reflects on the necessity of acknowledging pain and tending to our wounds in order to move forward into greater resilience. Laura Wade Shirley’s post on “Running as a Spiritual Practice” has been on my […]