Spirituality in Health: Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Practice

Bringing together academics and practitioner-scholars from across disciplines, this symposium critically explores how ‘spirituality’ is encountered, understood, researched, and lived, particularly where it resists conventional disciplinary language. Through cross-disciplinary dialogue and embodied experiential workshops led by scholar-practitioners and invited external practitioners, participants will engage with both theoretical and practice-based perspectives.

The symposium aims to foster a shared, critically informed understanding of spirituality in health contexts that is meaningful across disciplines and religious traditions, as well as to explore possibilities for future research collaboration.

Please see below for a full agenda and list of speakers and talk titles.

Please note that the opening and closing lectures will be online and in-person. The rest of the sessions are in-person only.

Hybrid keynotes

Opening Lecture: Professor Chris Cook, 'Patient Centred Spirituality in Psychiatry'

Closing Lecture: Professor Paul Bowman, 'From Health to Conspirituality: The Wim Hof Method and the Question of Ideology'

The Teams links will be circulated closer to the event. If you have any access requirements, please get in touch with us at imh.events@durham.ac.uk.

Please note that this event is free to attend.

This event is funded by Flourish@Durham and hosted by the Spirituality, Health and Wellbeing research theme of the Institute for Medical Humanities, led by Sitna Quiroz, Fran Cettl, Loretta Lou, Adam Powell, and Arya Thampuran.