(510) 843-1422INTERFAITH SPIRITUAL CARE
Honoring The Sacred
Connection Of All
If you seek to make a difference in your lifetime, The Chaplaincy Institute can provide the education you need. For hospitals, hospice, disasters, prisons, corporations, miliary and educational, activist and environmental contexts, we teach the innovative and interfaith spiritual care needed for our times.
If you seek to make a difference in your lifetime, The Chaplaincy Institute can provide the education you need. For hospitals, hospice, disasters, prisons, corporations, miliary and educational, activist and environmental contexts, we teach the innovative and interfaith spiritual care needed for our times.
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About Our Online Programs
About Our Online Programs
You can receive our world-class education from any location, with most coursework offered online through Moodle and
weekend Zoom intensives. In addition to online work, students are required to attend one or two residential learning retreats
on the coast of California.
Interfaith Chaplaincy
Certificate Program
Through study, reflection, writing and engaging with others, students gain a broad understanding of the world’s faiths, while simultaneously deepening their relationship to their own spiritual traditions.
Interfaith Spiritual Direction
Certificate Program
Master the art of companioning people on their spiritual journey. This program is designed for those who feel called to a private practice in personal, one-on-one spiritual direction, and who anticipate working with clients from a variety of faith traditions.
Open Courses For
Continuing Education
Students, alumni, and professionals can select
from open courses to continue deepening their interfaith understanding and practice.
“After 45 years working in technology, The Chaplaincy Institute is where I chose to
begin the work for my next career as a chaplain. It has been a totally life-altering
experience. This is work I can do the rest of my life.”
“After 45 years working in technology, The Chaplaincy Institute is where I chose to
begin the work for my next career as a chaplain. It has been a totally life-altering
experience. This is work I can do the rest of my life.”
Russ Button
10/09/2021
What do interfaith chaplains do?
Who Are We?
What do interfaith chaplains do? Who Are We?
“The work of this school – the lives and the personal growth experienced by each and every student it touches – multiplies. I hold much hope for the wonderful unfolding and continual evolution of The Chaplaincy Institute – all for the greater good that CHI provides to the world.”
Rev. Gina Rose Halpern
Founder of The Chaplaincy Institute
Why hundreds of students have trusted
The Chaplaincy Institute for their interfaith education
Why hundreds of students have trusted The Chaplaincy Institute for their interfaith education
Many individuals enroll in this program to satisfy their longing and curiosity to live meaningful, engaged lives. Others
arrive feeling called to a specific area of spiritual leadership or service. Whether in traditional or emerging contexts,
this program prepares you to handle the individuals and issues in today’s increasingly intricate and diverse world.
Innovative program & nurturing community
Besides spiritual and vocational preparation, you deepen your personal theological perspectives in a community of inspiration and belonging.
Well-rounded experience
After completing the Interfaith Chaplaincy & Ministry Certificate Program, you may choose to follow the path to ordination as an Interfaith Minister with The Chaplaincy Institute’s (ChI).
Online classes with flexible schedules
It’s easy to fit this program in your schedule as courses are held remotely and mostly asynchronously. Live attendance includes 13 virtual weekend intensives plus two on-site learning retreats.
Small class sizes
Tuition Assistance
Comprehensive Curriculum & Certificate
Innovative program & nurturing community
Besides spiritual and vocational preparation, you deepen your personal theological perspectives in a community of inspiration and belonging.
Well-rounded experience
After completing the Interfaith Chaplaincy & Ministry Certificate Program, you may choose to follow the path to ordination as an Interfaith Minister with The Chaplaincy Institute’s (ChI).
Online classes with flexible schedules
It’s easy to fit this program in your schedule as courses are held remotely and mostly asynchronously. Live attendance includes 13 virtual weekend intensives plus two on-site learning retreats.
Small class sizes
Tuition Assistance
Comprehensive Curriculum & Certificate
Innovative program & nurturing community
Besides spiritual and vocational preparation, you deepen your personal theological perspectives in a community of inspiration and belonging.
Well-rounded experience
After completing the Interfaith Chaplaincy & Ministry Certificate Program, you may choose to follow the path to ordination as an Interfaith Minister with The Chaplaincy Institute’s (ChI).
Online classes with flexible schedules
It’s easy to fit this program in your schedule as courses are held remotely and mostly asynchronously. Live attendance includes 13 virtual weekend intensives plus two on-site learning retreats.
Small class sizes
Tuition Assistance
Comprehensive Curriculum & Certificate
Join hundreds of our students who successfully
lead and serve in an interfaith capacity
Join hundreds of our students who successfully lead and serve in an interfaith capacity
Terri D.
Professional with expertise in this field 10/08/2021
Chi is truly for everyone!
The Chaplaincy Institute is where my heart found a space to listen and to discover ways to live out the truth of my heart’s calling to serve in justice and healing. There truly is room for everyone- without judgment- only welcome and invitation to be formed as interspiritual healers in a wounded, life-giving world. I give thanks everyday for the teachers, classmates with whom I am in membership- and the ongoing mission of compassionate presence we support in one another.
Debra Jansen
Client Served 10/07/2021
Chi confirmed my multi-faith spirituality!
The Chaplaincy Institute prepared me well to serve as a hospital chaplain and interfaith spiritual director. ChI affirmed my multi-faith spirituality, encouraged my creative self-expression, and ordained and blessed my work in the world. Their approach to experiential learning grows the whole person, not just the intellect. I'm delighted to see ChI continuing to grow in so many ways, negotiating several tough transitions. It's not an easy time for seminaries. As one of a small number of Interfaith schools, it has an increasingly important role to play in our world in transition.
JurgenS
Professional with expertise in this field 10/08/2021
The perfect place for chaplaincy education!
I love the Chaplaincy Institute for educating and ordaining awesome chaplains who are able to serve persons from diverse cultures and spiritual paths!
MRG143
Client Served 10/01/2021
Exceptional experience!
I attend this school and have only great things to say about my experience. The teachers are amazing, the curriculum is second to none and each student is treated with care. Leaders are passionate about seeing their students succeed. The administration is open minded and think outside the box to make ChI a successful educational experience for all. ChI is committed to the whole human. They teach value lessons, communication and leadership skills. My experience at ChI has been exceptional.
walden66
Client Served 10/07/2021
Really grateful for this place.
I attended this seminary, deep-diving in multiple world faith traditions and learning how to provide skilled spiritual care to people of all faiths - and to people of no particular faith. I believe strongly in the mission of "ChI" and am grateful that a place like this exists.
Tom K.2
Professional with expertise in this field 10/01/2021
Looking forward to continue this education!
I always look forward to the continuing education and new programs offered by the Chaplaincy Institute. Grateful for the surprises to be uncovered in working with Chaplains. The Interfaith dimension is a great resource in my work in Hospice settings among people who have a chance to reflect on the meaning in their lives.
Become a professional chaplain or
spiritual director through online
interfaith education on your schedule
Become a professional chaplain or
community Minister through online
interfaith education on your schedule
This program combines the study of the world’s religions with an exploration of mystical paths and teachings, as well as on developing
skills for ministry and providing spiritual care.
Online curriculum and flexible schedule
Payment plans and financial aid available
No risk – attend up to three courses without applying to the program
Blog Reel
Blog Reel
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB): A Student’s Perspective
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Deep Culture Webpage is Live!
The Deep Culture Webpage is up and the Hive is excited to share this labor of love full of the history, current events, past newsletter articles and a comprehensive resource list with topics to deepen our sacred justice ministry thanks to Rika Casseres and Rivka Gevurtz! How do you get there,
The Chaplaincy Institute’s Stance on Roe vs. Wade
6/27/22 As you likely know, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling that overturned the 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling protecting the privacy of all Americans and making abortion health care legal in all 50 states. While this issue is one of the most polarizing,