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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Image by Henryk Niestrój , Pixabay | INSS connects you to a growing community of researchers, educators, scholars and practitioners involved in the study of spirituality in its myriad aspects. While our conferences are powerful events to meet, learn, develop ideas and plan collaborations, our Special Interest Groups provide a means for you to engage more deeply with others on a specific aspect of spirituality over a longer period of time in a safe and supportive environment. |
Spirituality and Consciousness
he SaCS SIG explores different ideas of the relationship between spirituality and consciousness, in ways which encourage a mutually informing relationship between experience and theorizing. It is currently a small, closed group while it experiments with Bohm dialogue as a way of working. It plans to expand in due course. | The SASIG meets to discuss the intersection of the arts and spirituality in a variety of forms and mediums such as visual art, music, film, dance, digital, interactive, poetry, time-based and performative art forms. This includes the personal, social and cultural, encompassing both the religious and the spiritual-but-not-religious context. |
This SIG focuses on spirituality, mental health and wellbeing predominantly in the contexts of research, scholarship, healthcare and therapeutic practice. It provides a co-created diverse space to enable reflection and discussion of pertinent themes and issues connected within this topic, as well as to skill-share and inspire ideas and learning. |
A new SIG on Spirituality and Education was launched online on
24 April 2024.
We welcome participation from those interested in the interplay of spirituality and education in all of its diversity - from early childhood education to adult and higher education, as well as in professional contexts, voluntary organization, and community settings. We aim to enable participants to explore how spirituality relates to varied but complementary interests in practices, theories, and policies associated with education, teaching, and learning throughout the life course. In these early stages of its development, a period when we are developing relationships and allowing the group’s interests to form, we welcome expressions of interest to present on a range of topics to support the evolution of the SIG—for example, a newly forming idea, a theoretical development, or a critical exploration of policy.
Previous SIGs have included Higher Education and Spirituality in End-of-Life Care |
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