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Are Today’s Seminarians Tomorrow’s Corporate Leaders?

February 11, 2022
“The skills that ministers bring to their work are the skills that business schools desire to give to their students, and that CEOs want. They want empathy, connectivity with others, active listening,” said Karim Hutson, MDiv '08.
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The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

February 10, 2022
"The Spiritual Lives of Leaders," co-taught by HBS Professors Derek van Bever, MDiv '11, and John Brown, HDS Practitioner in Residence in Religion, Business Ethics, and the Economic Order, aimed to ignite conversations and an investigation into the deeper motivations of business leaders—the development of their values and sense of purpose, and the role of spirituality and faith in forming their leadership style.
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Are You Living the Life You Are Meant To?

February 9, 2022
"The Spiritual Lives of Leaders" is a masterpiece of a course brought by a collective effort between Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Chance of Sun in Michael Pollan’s Climate Forecast

November 3, 2021
“Nothing is inevitable; everything’s evitable; and that’s really important. That’s one of the reasons we study history, and we see that very specific decisions resulted in specific outcomes. It didn’t just happen. We’re very fatalistic. People assume things are the way they have to be and they’re not,” Harvard Professor Michael Pollan told Terry Tempest Williams, writer-in-residence at HDS, during an online conversation Monday, “The Climate of Consciousness.”
The Program for the Evolution of Spirituality supports the scholarly study of emerging spiritual movements, marginalized spiritualities, and the innovative edges of established religious traditions.

Video: Rebuilding Community and Accountability in L’Arche: Lessons Learned from a Founder’s Abuse of Power

October 20, 2021
On October 13, 2021, the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality hosted the next iteration in its series on power dynamics in emerging and alternative spiritual organizations. This event featured Tina Bovermann and Timothy Moore from L’Arche, a non-profit international movement of people with and without intellectual disabilities living, working, praying, and playing together in community.... Read more about Video: Rebuilding Community and Accountability in L’Arche: Lessons Learned from a Founder’s Abuse of Power
The Program for the Evolution of Spirituality supports the scholarly study of emerging spiritual movements, marginalized spiritualities, and the innovative edges of established religious traditions.

Video: Virtual Colloquium on Gender Dynamics in Intentional Communities

August 16, 2021
On July 27, 2021, the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality hosted the next colloquium in its series on power dynamics and accountability in alternative and emerging spiritual and cultural organizations. For this event, the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality featured Dr. Maria Burschel and Crystal Byrd Farmer to discuss gender dynamics in intentional communities.... Read more about Video: Virtual Colloquium on Gender Dynamics in Intentional Communities

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