Spirituality and Student Development by Allie Wassmer https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob en-us 2022-07-26 13:32:10 UTC 2025-11-18 02:57:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Professors giving time for minds-on activities/grounding activities prior to lecture. https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250649583 2022-07-27 15:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250649583 Educators have their own opinions and biases. We need to realize that all students come with their own beliefs and practices. It is very harmful to impose your own ways of knowing as students are trying to discover their own identities. This may lead students having an identity crisis...Students should be given choice and be able to share their own spiritual experiences and come up with their own definitions of spirituality. We should discuss how it resonates with them specifically and give them time to experience it for themselves. awassmer1 https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250650200 2022-07-27 15:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250650200 Some professors do a check-in or gauge how students are feeling/managing. https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250650533 2022-07-27 15:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250650533 Listen to other world views and cultures around the world, discover how other cultures practice spirituality. Make sure you cover all cultures and world views in the classroom so they can resonate with practices on their own. awassmer1 https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250650711 2022-07-27 15:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250650711 Make sure to not put down students if their spirituality does not align with your own awassmer1 https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250651122 2022-07-27 15:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250651122 Some professors embody spiritual ways of being in how teach and how they interact with learners. They make space for spirituality to exist in the class sometimes. https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250651517 2022-07-27 15:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250651517 As educators, provide students with material and vocabulary for them to see different viewpoints. At a young age, they are still developing their understanding of spirituality. awassmer1 https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250651805 2022-07-27 15:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250651805 Inclusive and culturally responsive practices. https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250651844 2022-07-27 15:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250651844 When faculty embody a spiritual way of being, they normalize it. If you see it modelled, you feel more comfortable in exploring your own spirituality. https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250652383 2022-07-27 15:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250652383 Encounters with Otherness https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250654430 1. Having facilitated conversations within a classroom
- Potential issue: large class sizes/being placed in groups with people who are in agreement with your viewpoints
2. Allowing for authentic conversation outside of classroom (unstructured)
3. Allowing for authentic conversation outside of classroom (structured)

Who qualifies as facilitator?
- students can also be facilitators
- having training to guide courageous discussion
- being conscious of facilitator biases
- "natural born leaders"

Brave spaces need to be constructed/formed within a classroom --> some people may not feel comfortable conversing which can lead to censoring/inauthentic conversation; external conversation can be better for this]]> 2022-07-27 15:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250654430 The university should be cautious about imposing spirituality on students, however it should be integrated into the curriculum in a non-religious fashion awassmer1 https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250654474 2022-07-27 15:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250654474 Is encounter (informally) enough? In a white supremacist culture of looking away, many will avoid opportunities for transformative or radical change/openness. In the vein of facilitation we have questions .... who is facilitating? For whom? What would this space look like? How would/could it be set up to deal with harm and histories of harm? jamvhill https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250655104 2022-07-27 15:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250655104 I think for students who are not identify as religious, maybe offering some general philosophy courses would be a good option. Because philosophy is the study of the world, life and self. Philosophy can provide a broad perception about the world. https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250655117 2022-07-27 15:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250655117 Defining Terminology https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250656122 How do we define "facilitation"?

Who decides whether conversation has been effective/transformative?]]> 2022-07-27 15:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/awassmer1/q2bji56tl4t1ddob/wish/2250656122