Join fellow nurses to refresh your body, spirit, and mind at the Institute’s Day of Self-Care for Nurses, hosted by the Karff Center for Healthcare Professionals. This event offers healing techniques, mind-body practice sessions, and nutritious meals and drinks.
The ISCC is an alliance of faith communities and nonprofits that serve individuals lacking formalized spiritual care resources, including those who are homebound or in healthcare facilities. Through recruitment, certified training, and collaboration with healthcare agencies, this program trains and empowers spiritual care volunteers to serve the healthcare community.
The annual Conference on Medicine and Religion is a leading forum for discourse and scholarship at the intersection of medicine and religion.
Co-presented by the Institute for Spirituality and Health and Rothko Chapel, this annual event provides a safe space to share stories of grief and find comfort in community.
Join us for a day of self-care, introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work within your organizations and for those you serve.
The ISCC is an alliance of faith communities and nonprofits that serve individuals lacking formalized spiritual care resources, including those who are homebound or in healthcare facilities. Through recruitment, certified training, and collaboration with healthcare agencies, this program trains and empowers spiritual care volunteers to serve the healthcare community.
Join the Institute and Cities for Better Health-Houston for a workshop to raise awareness for Diabetes Awareness Month. The Urban Harvest Mobile Farmer's Market will also be on-site, offering fresh, nutritious, and affordable products, with SNAP access and Double Up Houston.
The 33rd Annual Psychotherapy & Faith Conference will discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time, including strategies for moving through widespread feelings of tumult, suffering, and polarization.
Join us for our Houston IANDS October meeting featuring author John Burke. Burke will discuss the ten points of evidence that convinced him, as an agnostic and skeptical engineer, that NDEs confirm the reality of an afterlife overseen by a loving God of all nations.
Join this invaluable 7-week program aimed at empowering participants to start and manage diabetes self-care and prevention programs in their communities. Learn from experts and collaborative sessions to address important issues in diabetes care and management, and to create innovative health and wellness strategies for the future.
Join us for a day of self-care, introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work within your organizations and for those you serve.
Experience our "Pathways to Healing: A Journey of Mind-Body Wellness" program presented by the Greater Houston Healing Collaborative (GHHC). Over six weeks, expert practitioners will guide you through meditation, breath work, sound healing, essential oils, herbs, and EFT/Tapping to promote inner peace and overall well-being.
The ISCC is an alliance of faith communities and nonprofits that serve individuals lacking formalized spiritual care resources, including those who are homebound or in healthcare facilities. Through recruitment, certified training, and collaboration with healthcare agencies, this program trains and empowers spiritual care volunteers to serve the healthcare community.
The ISCC is an alliance of faith communities and nonprofits that serve individuals lacking formalized spiritual care resources, including those who are homebound or in healthcare facilities. Through recruitment, certified training, and collaboration with healthcare agencies, this program trains and empowers spiritual care volunteers to serve the healthcare community.
In the wake of Hurricane Beryl, the Institute and partnering organizations in the Greater Houston Healing Collaborative (GHHC) are answering the call to action. Join us on July 24 for a community gathering.
Join us for our Houston IANDS July meeting featuring author Jeff Janssen, who will share insights into the profound impact of your life through a life-changing presentation on what Near-Death Experiencers call the Life Review. Discover how your choices, words, and actions affect others by understanding the experiences of thousands who faced death and saw their lives flash before their eyes.
Join us for a day of self-care, introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work within your organizations and for those you serve.
The Diabetes Self-Management Series addresses diabetes and cardiovascular health awareness, prevention, and management with special attention to the mind and body. The Institute uses evidence-based self-management principles to engage people with diabetes to take ownership of this chronic disease. Promote better communication with your healthcare team and use weekly action plans to motivate long-term behavioral changes. Registration is required.
The Institute is holding its first DSMES class to provide diabetes self-management and prevention education to vulnerable individuals. Our evidence-based curriculum developed by Gateway Laredo FQHC aims to teach participants about diabetes, improve glucose control, facilitate better communication with healthcare teams, and connect them with a medical home.
Houston Diabetes Peer Support Program seeks peer support facilitators who are passionate and caring about helping people with diabetes.
The annual Conference on Medicine and Religion is a leading forum for discourse and scholarship at the intersection of medicine and religion.
Join us for a screening and panel discussion of the award-winning documentary "A Still Small Voice." The video follows a chaplain completing a year-long residency and explores themes such as the power of presence and sources of professional burnout and resilience. The film aired in select U.S. theaters but not in Houston, making this a unique opportunity for local audiences to view and discuss it.
Join us for a day of self-care, introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work within your organizations and for those you serve.
Spirituality and religiosity are recognized as factors that contribute to quality of life and coping strategies in many persons facing life-threatening illnesses. These life-threatening events can also give rise to spiritual distress. The purpose of this symposium is to provide a better understanding of the Palliative Care Team’s role in enhancing the Human spirit and relieving patient’s bio-psychosocial and spiritual suffering.
The ISCC is an emergent alliance among faith communities and nonprofits to serve individuals whose spiritual resources are inadequate. This may include homebound individuals and those in healthcare facilities that do not have formalized spiritual care resources.
Join us, along with our speaker Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye, as we embark on a spiritual journey of deepened self-awareness through guided meditation, imagery, and writing. Our time together will include heart-centered practices such as prayer (intentionality), movement, and song, all with the intention of tapping into a power greater than ourselves, and bring forth the wisdom within.
The holidays are always a time to come together, and also a time when grief and loss are felt most deeply. Now in it’s 10th year, this annual program offers a safe space to hear and share stories of grief and know that you are not alone. We will hear from members of ISH’s bereavement group, engage in a guided journaling meditation experience, and listen to the healing sounds of crystal bowls.
Institute will host an evening meditation accompanied by a sound bath to guide attendees to go inward and deepen in their self compassion within a nurturing community.
Join us for our Houston IANDS November meeting featuring Dr. Raymond Moody, who will share with us his insights from decades of meticulous research and firsthand accounts of NDEs that have profoundly impacted countless lives
Enjoy breakfast at the Junior League of Houston as the American Diabetes Association and Cities Changing Diabetes present the latest trends in diabetes prevention, care, and management from both national and regional perspectives.
The 32nd Annual Psychotherapy and Faith Conference will draw upon the insight of mental health professionals and spiritual leaders alike to offer strategies for promoting wisdom among psychotherapists and patients that will contribute to growth and healing.
Join us for a day of self-care introducing you to Mind-Body Skills to help manage stress, heal trauma, improve relationships, and cultivate mental and physical well-being. Experience growth and renewal for yourself and learn valuable skills to integrate into your life and work, within your organizations and for those you serve.
For 31 years, the Institute for Spirituality and Health has joined a host of collaborating organizations at the forefront of the exploration of the intersection of the nursing professions, spirituality, health, and healing. This year's conference focuses on the end of life, a time when the relationship between spirituality and health is often most apparent.
