Overview

Applications will open Friday, October 2, 2026. Please check back as more details become available.

By application; Wondering how your professional “second half” will be different? Feeling untethered now that tenure (or its equivalent) is behind you? Overwhelmed by organizational changes taking place in theological education and in need of a “recharge”? Then this experiential vocational retreat is for you!

Moving into your professional "second half" comes with questions about changes that theological education and your school are facing and the impacts you will have in these spaces. Having reached a halfway point in your career, you are in the position to review and perhaps reshape your vocation as a theological educator. In this vocational season, you might consider engaging broader publics as a theological educator. In this vocational season, you may also be asked to help lead the changes that need to come and to mentor the next generation of theological educators.

We will lean into experiential pedagogies with the understanding that activity, expression, and rest will coax new kinds of reflection and imagination in participants’ understanding of vocation.

In this time of significant changes within the world, the church, and theological education, how will you take on the responsibility of guiding important changes in your institution? How might your gifts best be used to serve the mission of your institution? How should your vocation develop within the context of the mission? Explore these questions and your next vocational chapter!