Course Syllabus
Instructor: Carrie Doehring, PhD
Teaching Assistants: Hannah Ingram hingram@iliff.edu; Shyama Creaven screaven@iliff.edu
E-mail: cdoehring@iliff.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
Course Synopsis
People who experience work as highly meaningful can easily become emotionally exhausted and morally stressed, leading to burnout and spiritual neglect or abuse. This online learning process begins with exploring and prioritizing personal values psychologically and theologically. Working in small groups, students share reflections on moral stress arising from conflicts between high priority values and life limiting childhood values that still shape how they cope with stress. They focus on changing a habit that will help them integrate an authentic spirituality into their daily experiences of coping with all kinds of stress: physical, emotional, relational, vocation, and financial. They share journals about implementing this habit, supporting each other in spiritually sensitive and compassionate ways. They reflect theologically on newly gained insights about self-care and managing power dynamics and relational dynamics in professional relationships.
Students who are scholar in the Spiritually Integrative Financial Resilience (SIFR) program will pay attention to the role of financial stress and its relationship to moral stress. This topic will be optional for students not in this program.
Books for the Course
Chapters and articles will be posted under weekly group discussion assignments
Book to purchase (we will also try to post these chapters on the course site):
Duhigg, Charles. (2012). Chapter 3 (pp. 60-93), Chapter 5 (pp. 127-153), Appendix (pp. 275-286)
The power of habits: Why we do what we do in life and business. New York, NY. Random House. 978-1-4000-6928-6.ISBN 10: 1847946240 ISBN 13: 9781847946249
Here is a scanned PDF of these pages
Duhigg 2012 Power of Habit selected pages.pdf
See Taylor Library's list of online book sellers for purchasing options.
Here is a link to some suggestions for spiritual practices you might use in this course to enhance the habits you are working on
http://spirituallife.iliff.edu
Professional Confidentiality and Mandatory Reporting
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