Godly Play Online Clinical CORE Training

This Online Clinical CORE Training will take place over 3 Saturdays, September 12, September 19, and September 26. 10:00am-2pm Eastern

What happens when a child in a hospital bed needs more than medicine to heal? What does spiritual care look like at the bedside, in a behavioral health unit, or in hospice?

Clinical Core Training equips chaplains, social workers, and other care providers with the tools to bring the Montessorian Godly Play Method into hospitals, hospice settings, and other non-traditional environments. This modified Godly Play Core Training expands on foundational content with added curriculum and learning outcomes designed to address the real, practical concerns of practitioners doing spiritual care work in clinical contexts.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore the Godly Play Method as both a form of assessment and a therapeutic intervention in clinical chaplaincy, grounded in foundational concepts in child development and spirituality. The training includes reading and discussion of current research, hands-on skill practice for bedside storytelling, and exploration of clinical adaptations that support spiritual expression across diverse traditions, including Torah Play (Judaism), Spirit Play (Unitarian Universalist), Faith and Play (Quaker), and others.

This training is designed for all those who provide care across clinical settings: hospital chaplains working with patients of all ages, behavioral health and hospice chaplains, workforce chaplains, social workers, and interdisciplinary clinicians.

18 hours of Continuing Education credits are provided, including 3 research hours.

Please note: a Clinical CORE Training Starter Kit is included as part of your registration fee. You'll receive instructions for ordering your kit a few weeks before the first session.