This schedule will be updated regularly as details become available.

(Updated 1.30.23)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26

3:00-6:00 Check In (Hotel Lobby)

4:00p New Member Reception

6:00p Open Plenary with meal:  Joy as Resistance

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27

10:00a Morning Plenary: Karen Walrond

Lessons from The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: 

A New Joyful, Kind, Self- Compassionate Way to Change the World

12:00p Lunch provided

1:30-2:30 Workshop Session 1

• Exploring Interfaith Through the Arts (Harmeet Kaur Kamboj)

• Fellowship v. Community:  The importance of play in building communities of faith (Alexandra Miller-Knaack)

• Nurturing, Supporting, Honoring:  Insights from Military Chaplaincy for Spiritual Leaders in Higher Education (Barry R. Baron)

• Making Mindfulness a Sought After Practice (Rev. Dr. Gail Cantor)

• Stories that Heal not Stories that Harm:  How Storytellers Shape New Futures (Abdul-Rehman Malik)

2:30-3:00 Break

3:00-4:00 Workshop Session 2

• Developing Buy-In from Part-Time Chaplains (Director Yasin Ahmed)

• Finding Joy and Wonder in Religiously-Unaffiliated Students (Brittany Longsdorf and Raymond Clothier)

• Holding Breathing Space (Linda Morgan-Clement and Asher McMullen)

• Humanist Art of Living:  Possibilities in a Changing World (Anthony Cruz Pantojas)

• Working with Off-Campus Religious Organizations - A Collaborative Discussion (The Rev. Dr. Colleen Hallagan Preuninger, Rev. Maeba Jonas, Rev. Elyse Nelson Winger)

4:15 Affinity Groups 

Evening on your own (no evening meal provided): See Excursions List below for ideas

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28

9:30a ACSLHE Business Meeting

10:45a Workshop Session 3

• Contemplative Practices and the Question of Self-Care (Rev. Dr. Gail Stearns, Shaykh Jibreel Speight, and Dr. Andrea Seigel)

• The Role of the University Chaplain and Retention (Rev. Herbert A. Brisbon, III)

• Using Circle Process & Restorative Practices in Spiritual Life (Kate Smanik)

• W{holy} Queer:  Fostering Integration, Community & Joy with LGBTQ Students (Rev. Jenny Peek)

• Who Gets Approved?  (Dr. Nisa Muhammad and Nathan Albert)

12:00p Plenary with Keynote and Lunch:  Miriam Udel

Yiddish Children’s Literature as a Site of Joyful Resistance

2:00p  Explorations of Joy

Afternoon to explore Atlanta: View Full List of Recommendations

• High Museum of Art (a curated experience especially for ACSLHE members) - 3p Tuesday

• National Center for Civil and Human Rights

• The King Center

• Atlanta University Center:  Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, Morehouse School of Medicine

• The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum

• Atlanta History Center

6:30p:  Closing Celebration with Dinner:  Joy as Resistance