OCTOBER 26 - 28, 2026

A CALL TO HEALING, RESILIENCE, AND FAITHFUL IMAGINATION
How can theological education become a force for healing, resilience, and transformation in a traumatized world?

Disrupting Trauma invites participants into a shared exploration of how theological formation can respond faithfully to the realities of trauma while cultivating resilience, communal care, and transformative leadership. Through scholarship, spiritual reflection, practical application, and communal engagement, the conference seeks to help institutions and leaders move beyond awareness toward meaningful action.

Join educators, practitioners, students, scholars, and faith leaders from across North America for a collaborative exploration of trauma-responsive formation, pedagogy, leadership, and community care.

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WHY THIS WORK MATTERS NOW

The realities shaping theological education today are increasingly complex. Across institutions, congregations, and communities, leaders are navigating collective grief, burnout, polarization, institutional strain, and growing questions about vocation, leadership, and communal care.

These challenges are not simply operational concerns. They are deeply formative questions. They influence how we teach, how we lead, how we care for one another, and how we prepare leaders for ministry and service in a rapidly changing world.

At the same time, trauma is no longer a peripheral conversation. Its effects are visible in classrooms, congregations, communities, institutions, and within the lives of those called to serve. The need for practices that cultivate resilience, compassion, wisdom, and hope has never been more urgent.