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Jon Bartlett, M.Ed.
Coordinator for Spirituality and Wellbeing,
Division of Student Affairs
Spirituality @ UNT
IntroductionIt’s poll time!
Instructions: Use your cell phone to vote.Text the number that corresponds with your choice
to the number at the top of the slide.You can only respond once.
Getting Started
Religion: “Religiousness typically involves membership in some kind of community of fellow believers and practitioners, as well as participation in ceremonies or rituals” (Astin, 2011).
Spirituality: “…Spirituality has to do with the values that we hold most dear, our sense of who we are and where we come from, our beliefs about why we are here—the meaning and purpose that we see in our work and our life—and our sense of connectedness to one another and to the world around us. Spirituality can also bear on aspects of our experience that are not easy to define or talk about, such things as intuition, inspiration, the mysterious, and the mystical” (Astin, 2011).
Definitions
There’s room for everyone at the table, regardless of what you believe.
What it comes down to: How do you make meaning?
The Big Picture
Spirituality
Inner Developme
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The Heinz Dilemma:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJ07klMhr0 Pair up with a person sitting near you and
discuss what you would do if you were in Heinz’s situation.
Activity
Whether you are aware of it or not, you will
encounter subjects with religious and/or
spiritual implications throughout your time in
college…
Spirituality/Religion in College
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
-The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
In Literature Classes…
In History Classes…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”
In Political Science Classes…
In Science Classes
Galileo Galilei
But sometimes it’s more subtle than that.
Any time you are exploring your…PurposeValuesCareer/Vocational Goals
…you’re potentially drawing on your spiritual
beliefs.
Spirituality/Religion in College
…is critically important to who you are. It’s
part of your identity.
For many of you, college represents the first
chance you’ve had to critically reflect on what
you believe outside of the confines of your
family and home culture.
“Know thyself.”
What You Believe…
UNT wants to support you in your
spiritual/inner-development.
There are a number of campus resources that
could be beneficial to you as you explore your
beliefs.
Consider the following tips:
Recommendations
Spend time in quiet self-reflection.This could be in the form of prayer or
meditation, but it doesn’t have to be.
Reflect!
Goolsby Chapel
Counseling and Testing, Chestnut Hall
For the sake of your sanity, turn everything off once in a while. Experience quiet.
Go Unplugged!
Seek out interactions with people who are different from you.
Practice:ToleranceHospitalityUnderstandingRespectAcceptance“Holy Envy”
Diversify!
UNT-International, IELI OfficeSycamore Hall, 940-565-2003
Give back to your community through service and philanthropy.
Give Back!
The Center for Leadership and Service, Union 422
Activities include:• Make a
Difference Day• The Big Event• Alternative
Spring Break
If being connected to a house of worship is important to you, and something you did before you came to UNT, consider finding one in or near the Denton area that fits your needs.
Worship?
Find someone you respect who is older than you and learn from them.Could be an upperclassmen: Multicultural
Center, Buddy System (peer mentoring program)
Could be a faculty/staff member: Seriously, we’re normal people.
Could be a campus minister or someone from your place of worship.
Get Mentored!
Find a student organization that represents your beliefs and values.
Student Activities Center, Union 320, studentactivities.unt.edu
Get Involved!
Questions? Comments?Contact me:
Jon BartlettChestnut 155B
In Closing