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.

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.

Join us for our Houston IANDS August meeting featuring Pat Johnson, who will share with us the messages he received from his Near Death Experience about life’s purpose and how to overcome the roadblocks that get in the way.

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.

Join us for our Houston IANDS June meeting featuring guest speaker Jan Holden, president of the International Association of Near-Death Studies and NDE researcher of over 30 years.

Hear from three physicians with diverse experiences about how their involvement in various faith-based medical missions has impacted the way they practice and view medicine in the United States. How are medical missionaries developing cultural competence from a practice once conflated with colonialism? Why are physicians motivated to offer their services overseas when underprivileged populations are often nearby and more readily accessible? What do medical missionaries personally stand to gain beyond improving the health outcomes of their target communities? These questions invite those interested in or involved with medical missions to reflect on how faith-based medical missions could be personally valuable in professional and spiritual aspects, and challenges attendees to envision healthcare in America from a missional perspective.

Jon Allen’s recent interest in what enables us to feel connected in personal relationships evolved from writing his book, Trusting in Psychotherapy (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2022). Ideally, trust is reciprocal: Each individual is trusting of the other and trustworthy to the other. Trusting entails hope that the other will be trustworthy. Trust and hope imply doubt: without doubt, concern about trust would not enter our mind; without doubt, we would have no need for hope. With hope that we can trust, we count on others for care, concern, and help; concomitantly, knowing and caring that we are counting on them motivates others to be trustworthy. Trusting in others and their responsiveness to trust requires an intuitive feeling of connection. The feeling of connection implies a connector: Where is the connection? Recent psychoanalytic literature introduces the concept of “the Third” as a link between the two individuals. This link is a joint creation that influences and shapes the individuals who are creating it. In short, the creation creates the creators. Think of an enlivened conversation that leads to unforeseen territory. Jon experiences the Third in playing jazz piano in a trio. Sharing an interest in this elusive experience of the Third, Jon and Cyrus Wirls agree that we are in the realm of spirituality, which they will discuss in this book spotlight.

Join us for our Houston IANDS April meeting featuring guest speaker Father Nathan Castle, author of And Toto, Too: The Wizard of Oz as a Spiritual Adventure.

The Wim Hof Method is a way to tap into the hidden power of breath and cold exposure; two natural resources that used to be part of our everyday lives throughout most of our evolutionary history, but that have been almost completely lost to the comforts of modern society.

Join us for our Houston IANDS February meeting featuring guest speaker Roger Chan.

Grief is a deeply personal process, but what happens when pain, frustration, and loss are felt everywhere at the same time?  Collective grief can manifest in the wake of major events such as: war, natural disasters, or others that result in mass casualties or widespread tragedy. We are still grieving collectively from COVID -19, and recent school and mass shootings.  At the same time, we are reckoning with a long history of racial trauma and pain. The challenges have brought anxiety, anger, and an erosion of trust in one another and our institutions. How do we grieve collectively? Does widespread loss simply compound personal loss, or can comfort be found in a collective grief process? This 2 hour virtual workshop will consider the concept of collective grief: what it means, how the many current forms of grief diverge or intersect, and how collective grief shapes the personal grief journey.

According to the I-Ching (aka the Book of Change) when things reach an extreme, they often shift to their opposite. Though out history, change is often necessitated only out of the most extreme conditions and challenges. An earthquake will produce new land. A forest can burn to the ground and the ground becomes fertile soil for the growth fo a new forest. An animal can die and fertilize the grass for many more animals to live. Like the winter solstice, when days reach their darkest, the light is closest to its homecoming. The most profound change is occurring as the caterpillar liquifies before it becomes a butterfly. What can you become?

Join us for our Houston IANDS December meeting featuring guest speaker Brother Ed Salisbury, retired Hospice Minister, Funeral Director, and Yoga Coach, and former leader of the Central Texas IANDS chapter.

Brother Ed will present insights gained from three near-death experiences (NDEs) - one from a car accident, another from drowning, and another on the operating table. He will also share stories of death bed and after death communications. He lost his first wife to a drowning, a father to cancer, and an adult child to suicide. From these stories and experiences, we will explore the unifying effects of death.

The holidays are always a time to come together, and also a time when grief and loss are felt most deeply. The pandemic has brought new grief, both individual and collective, and has also complicated the process of mourning and bereavement. Now in its 9th 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 and others who each have a unique experience to share.

The Institute is partnering with The Windsor Village Church Family, Hope Clinic, and the Houston Health Department to bring COVID-19 and Flu vaccines, free of charge, as part of our FaithHealth Vaccine Initiative.