All-School Conference - Nourish: Body, Mind and Spirit

Event time: 
Monday, February 26, 2018 - 12:00am
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 12:00am
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 - 12:00am
Thursday, March 1, 2018 - 12:00am
Event description: 

Monday/February 26

12:30-1:20 pm Panel Discussion: Science and the nourishment of body, mind, and spirit
Old Refectory - Free Lunch

  • Dr. Bandy X Lee ‘95 M.Div., M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale School of Medicine
  • Dr. Benjamin Doolittle ‘94 M.Div., M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Pediatrics, Director, Int Med-Pediatrics Residency Program, Yale School of Medicine
  • Dr. Stephen Mark Heim, Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School

Co-Sponsor: CLC, Andover Newton Seminary

Wellness Practice

  • 12:30-1:30 pm Kundalini Yoga - Room N-54

Yale Adventist campus Fellowship

  • 3:00-4:00pm New Start Project – Room S104/RSV. Guest: Pastor Warren Ruf

FERNS, YBS, Women Center, PAJ, Interfaith Club

  • 8:00-9:30pm – Film Screening, Yemanja Documentary - Niebuhr

Tuesday/February 27

Yale Chaplain’s Office

  • 11:00-11:30am Cookies and Coloring – Common Room

12:30-1:20 pm Panel Discussion: Religion and the nourishment of body, mind, and spirit
Old Refectory - Free Lunch

  • Dr. Harry Riggs, Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Connecticut
  • Rabbi Herbert N. Brockman, Congregation Mishkan Israel
  • Kent Richards, Pastor at the First UMC of Mystic, CEO of Strategy Points
  • Dr. Asha Shipman, Director of Hindu Life and Hindu Chaplain for Yale
  • Omar Bajwa, Director of Muslim Life in the Chaplain’s Office at Yale

Co-Sponsors: CLC, Berkeley, Yale Chaplain’s Office

Wellness Practice

  • 5:10-5:40 pm Meditation and Movement - Room N-54

Lutheran Students Organization

  • 5:30-6:00pm Evening Prayer Service – Nouwen Chapel

Wednesday/February 28

12:30-1:20 pm Panel Discussion: Arts and the nourishment of body, mind, and spirit
Old Refectory - Free Lunch

  • Michael Yaffe, Associate Dean at Yale’s School of Music
  • Dr. Anthony Kelley, Associate Professor of the Practice of Music, Duke University
  • Amie Reilly, Short Story Teller, Adjunct Professor at Sacred Heart University

Co-Sponsors: CLC, ISM

Wellness Practice

  • 12:30-1:20 pm Wellness Wednesday - Room N-54
    • Anne Dutton from the Yale Stress Center leading Mediation Based Stress Relief (MBSR)

Thursday/March 1

Wellness Practice

  • 12:30-1:20 pm  Tai Chi - Room N-54

Conversations on Community

  • 12:30 pm-1:20 pm – Room JE Dining

FERNS

  • 4:00pm-5:00pm NEATure Walk and Bonfire – Around YDS and Fire Pit

5-6 pm Evening of Music – Old Common room with wine & cheese reception
Performers

  • Dr. Anthony Kelley, Associate Professor of the Practice of Music, Duke University
  • Nicholas Lewis ‘13 M.Div.: Associate Dean of Students, Yale Divinity School

6-8 pm Community Dinner – Old Refectory
Co-Sponsors: CLC, Dean’s Office


Friday/March 2

YDS Evangelical Fellowship and Korean Evangelical Student Group

  • 12:00-1:00pm Prayer Retreat and Luncheon – Room S104

Wellness Practice

  • 12:30-1:20 pm  Yoga - Room N-54

YDS Interfaith Club

  • 5:30-7:30pm Shabbat Community Dinner Service – Rooms Slifka Center and Common Room

Marquand Chapel services will take place as usual at 10:30am throughout the week, and as part of the All School Conference the Chapel offers some prayer stations around the theme “Nourish.”