The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions
The Cal Turner Program seeks to develop the ethical identities and leadership capacities of those serving in the professions.
07/22/2024
We will be hosting Father Greg Boyle and two of his Homies in a few weeks here in person at Vanderbilt Divinity School the first Saturday that people begin to be on campus for the semester, August 17th. Join us!
03/01/2024
Long time program partners and friends Nashville Conflict Resolution Center came and taught our student fellows about conflict styles today.
12/06/2023
Come join us as we talk about how to respond to moral suffering and distress in professional practice.
07/28/2023
As we prepare for the school year, we came across this opportunity for the public: https://betterarguments.org/ambassador-program/
05/05/2023
04/14/2023
Proud of you Mark! Thank you for the good press!
Class of 2023: Crisis leads Mark Miller from business leadership to bedside care and advocacy Class of 2023: It’s every child’s nightmare: Both parents are rushed to the hospital with life-threatening emergencies. But that terrifying personal experience—and his parents’ recovery—inspired Mark Miller to put aside a 20-year management career and earn a master’s in nursing at Vander...
04/14/2023
So proud of Justin Brooks and excited to keep tabs on what he does next!
Class of 2023: Justin Brooks dedicates legal career to expanding justice for all Class of 2023: See how Justin Brooks is on a mission of compassion, using his growing legal expertise to aid and empower victims of domestic violence and the economically disadvantaged.
02/21/2023
Looking forward to learning from this courageous and wonderful human being in a few weeks. Register to join us for a free meal and lots of tools for your own community at https://traumafeministmidwife.eventbrite.com
01/30/2023
Conflict Animals Workshop - Learn your Conflict Style and How to Use it Well
led by the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center
Friday, February 3, 2023
Noon-2:00 pm
Vanderbilt Divinity School
G-29, "The Space"
Come learn about personal conflict styles, how they can be categorized to resemble certain "animals," and identify your own. This beginning conflict awareness skill opens the door to seeing conflict through different lenses and perspectives.
This 90-minute workshop will be led by conflict mediators of the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center, long-time community partners of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions at Vanderbilt University.
Please register so that we can plan for food.
01/30/2023
The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions will be hosting Wendland-Cook Fellow Priscila Alves as she presents on the problem of violence in favelas. The discussion will shift to the role of theology in the context of daily violence experienced by residents of favelas, including an examination of the most common images of God held by people in favelas and how they may or may not help them cope. Finally, Priscila will present research results on the topic and engage the audience in a discussion on the unique theological perspectives and productions of Favela Christians in the face of violence.
She will be joined by Graham Reside, Executive Director of Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions as a respondent.
There will be time for the audience to interact with Priscila following her presentation.
When: Monday, Feb 6, 2023 from 11:30am-1:00pm
Where: VDS Rm 127 + via livestream
Lunch provided
01/10/2023
TRAUMA-INFORMED DE-ESCALATION TRAINING
January 31st, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Hosted by Open Table Nashville
Location: West End United Methodist Church (2200 West End Ave.)
Training Description:
Many of us know that it doesn't take much for situations to escalate, especially if we work in an environment where people who experience stressful circumstances congregate. OTN's de-escalation training is interactive, steeped in evidence-based practices like trauma-informed care, and operates in an anti-oppression framework.
Topics Covered:
• What is happening in the body and brain during escalated situations
• Prevention, intervention, and after care strategies
• Centering techniques
• Verbal and non-verbal de-escalation skills
• Special considerations for people experiencing severe mental health and/or substance use disorders
RSVP:
Space for this training is limited. If Vanderbilt affiliated, please sign up by contacting [email protected].
10/12/2022
Looking forward to hearing end-of-life doula Jill Schock speak next week to our chaplaincy students on Thursday ahead of our Pathways to Moral Leadership Conference, when she will also give a workshop!
10/10/2022
Looking forward to our conference on Hope, Integrity, and Imagination: Pathways to Moral Leadership on October 21st. Register at https://PathwaysmoralLeadership.eventbrite.com.
10/27/2021
Hello everyone, a program partner of ours, Vanderbilt’s Turner Family Center for Social Ventures at the Owen School of Management will be hosting Café Momentum next Friday!
Café Momentum is an award-winning nonprofit restaurant and culinary training facility whose mission is to help our community’s justice-involved youth achieve their full potential by equipping them with life skills, education and employment opportunities. Coming to Nashville in 2022!
Join us in welcoming Guest Speaker, Rokeisha Bryant, Café Momentum Nashville’s Founding Executive Director with a Documentary Screening: Building Momentum (trailer here)
Friday, November 5, 10:30am-12:30pm
Peabody Campus, Mayborn Building Room 117 (Coffee provided for all who register)
Rokeisha Bryant, Founding Executive Director of Café Momentum Nashville, is a Peabody alumna (Human Development & Counseling ‘07) and youth development professional focused on evidence-based practices that enable young people to thrive. Prior to joining Café Momentum, Rokeisha served in several capacities at Oasis Center, designed to amplify youth voices. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College and the Program Manager for the Reaching Excellence As Leaders (REAL) Program, in addition to volunteering her time on multiple boards across the city. The Turner Family Center for Social Ventures is thrilled to host this conversation about employing an innovative social enterprise business model for community change.
Please RSVP Anchor Link: https://anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/event/7554736
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07/09/2021
We are co-sponsoring this all-day racial justice and education conference on Wednesday, July 28th put on by the Race, Research, and Justice program based at Peabody College. If you'd like to attend, we have plenty of free tickets--email us at [email protected].
06/02/2021
We are a little more than a week away from having Sojourner's Courtney Ariel, who also happens to be a Vanderbilt Divinity Student, lead us in a conversation about normalizing discomfort for the sake of progress in anti-racism. Please plan to join us. To register https://ctpmldiscomfort.eventbrite.com
We had an excellent conversation yesterday with members of the Nashville Community Bail Fund's court watch group about what they see as needed in terms of oversight and surveillance of the judicial system to increase the fairness and accessibility of courts as they relate to policing and prisons.
Technical problems are preventing us from directly broadcasting our live Community Conversation on Policing and Prisons: How the Judicial System Impacts. We are recording and hope to post after the fact.
05/13/2021
Join us next Sunday as we hear from court watch members of the Nashville Community Bail Fund discuss how the judicial system impacts policing and prisons.
05/13/2021
Congratulations to our Moral Leadership Student Fellowship fellows for Class of 2021:
Law School: Miles Malbrough, Jaehee Kim, and Natalie Graves
Divinity School: Lena Sclove, Quentin Cox, and Erica Joy Johnson
Medicine: Daniel Pereira, Petria Thompson, Mollie Limb
Owen: Brian Dab, Neha Rastogi, Travis Welwood
Nursing: Eve Rodenmeyer, Elisabeth Stewart, Malin Adams
Education: Oscar Guzman, Kimberly Ellis, Ian Anderson
05/12/2021
Our 2020-2021 Moral Leadership Student Fellowship, which draws nominated students from across six of Vanderbilt's professional schools, wrapped up last week. Here is how our fellows described moral professional leadership.
Join us today as we are joined by our partner, the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center, as we have our discussion on: Society in Conflict Lunch and Learn on Preserving Human Dignity through Mediation!
Join Black Christian social ethicist Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Jewish Studies and Midrash scholar Dr. W. David Nelson, and Executive Director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership Dr. Graham Reside for a monthly Wednesday night series of conversations about the role that forgiveness plays in the sociopolitical realms of religion and rhetoric through the sacred performance of race and responsibility. Tonight they are joined by a guest panelist, Dawn Harrington, who is the Executive Director of Free Hearts is also the Director of Special Projects for the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls.
Having access to a home, a place to call your own, is vital to our wellbeing as humans, and yet far too many lack that access or are poised to lose it with the slightest stroke of bad luck. Too many of our neighbors remain unhoused, in unsafe housing, on the edge of eviction, or scrambling and sacrificing other necessities to make rent payments.
Affordable housing stock is perpetually in high demand, with the need outstripping the supply at every turn - especially in a town bustling with newcomers and flashy new developments. The housing crisis in our society - and, more specifically, in Nashville - has long been devastating for too many. And as we’ve seen, its impacts were only exacerbated by the COVID pandemic.
Join us as we explore the intersection of housing and human dignity with three experts who will guide us through a conversation about the conflicts we face as a society in 2021 and beyond.
Featuring speakers Marshall Crawford Jr., President and CEO of The Housing Fund, Lindsey Krinks, Co-Founder, Open Table Nashville, Saul Solomon, Interim Director, MDHA
Panel moderated by Peabody PhD Candidate Kelley Frances Fenelon and prefaced by MaryBeth Shinn, Professor of Human and Organizational Development and homelessness researcher
Join Black Christian social ethicist Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Jewish Studies and Midrash scholar Dr. W. David Nelson, and Executive Director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership Dr. Graham Reside for a monthly Wednesday night series of conversations about the role that forgiveness plays in the sociopolitical realms of religion and rhetoric through the sacred performance of race and responsibility.
“With a heart for serving others and an interest in the intersection of theology and social justice, Erica Johnson was drawn to pursue a master’s degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School while working at a social services center for victims and survivors of domestic violence.”
Read this exciting news and wonderful article about one of our current fellows, Erica Johnson!
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/04/19/class-of-2021-divinity-student-pursues-masters-work-at-the-junction-of-theology-and-social-justice/?utm_source=myvupreview&utm_medium=myvu_email&utm_campaign=myvupreview-2021-04-19
04/19/2021
This Wednesday, join us for a conversation about what's to forgive concerning religious violence, from 6-7:15 Central.
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