Application Dates:

Opens: July 1, 2025
Deadline: September 24, 2025

Schedule of Sessions

• February 6, 2026, 3-5:00 pm ET
• March 6, 2026, 3-5:00 pm ET
• April 10, 2026, 3-5:00 pm ET
• June 8-12, 2026 in-person (held at Wabash Center, Crawfordsville, IN)
• August 21, 2026, 3-5:00 pm ET
• September 11, 2026, 3-5:00 pm ET
• October 9, 2026, 3-5:00 pm ET

Leadership Team

Participants

TBD

Description

“When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.” bell hooks

Participants will explore the paths that led us to our vocations as faculty. We will examine the ways that our diverse experiences inform our teaching so that we can fully claim our authentic selves. It is only by connecting to our authentic teaching identity that we can sustain ourselves as educators during these times. We will also explore how this work of “scrutiny” can lead to our personal thriving, which can then engender hope for our communities.

Participants can expect to:

• Investigate and reflect our own narratives as they relate to teaching
• Develop practices to deploy methods of integrating our journeys with our classrooms
• Experience collegial work in an environment that is relaxing and restorative
• Imagine ways of teaching and learning that evoke curiosity, joy, and hope

The hybrid workshop will gather for six online sessions and an in-person summer session at the Wabash Center in Crawfordsville, IN. Sessions will include small group and plenary discussions, structured and unstructured social time, and time for personal and communal growth, relaxation, restoration, and shared meals.

Goals

• To excavate and nurture your authentic identity as a teacher
• To transform your teaching with this authenticity
• To translate your vocational work into communal sustainability
• To connect our efforts for communal sustainability back to practices that lead to our own sustainability and flourishing for our teaching selves.

Eligibility

• Full time tenure track or continuing term relationship with one school
• 1-6 years of teaching experience at the institution of current employment
• Teach religion, religious studies, or theology in an accredited college, university, or seminary in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada. If working in related fields must be teaching primary courses focused on issues of religion or theology
• Doctoral degree awarded by January 2025
• Institutional support and personal commitment to participate fully in all workshop sessions
• Tenure decision (if applicable) no earlier than January of 2026
• Hold a job description or contract that includes at least 50% teaching responsibility

Application Materials

1. Application Contact Information form 
2. Cover letter: Write a cover letter that describes why a Wabash workshop, given the diverse makeup of its participants, would be helpful to you at this point in your career. What role do you see peer colleagues and collaborators playing in your growth as an early career teacher and scholar? (Up to 500 words) 
3. Brief essay: Describe a friendship that informs how you interface with colleagues/peers. How does this friendship inform how you create space for your students? (Up to 500 words) 
4. Academic CV (4-page limit) 
5. A letter of institutional support for your full participation in this workshop from your Department Chair, Academic Dean, Provost, Vice President, or President. Please have this recommendation uploaded directly to your application according to the online application instructions.