The Waterford Institute of Technology, Department of Applied Arts hosted the 2019 Annual European SPES Conference in May 16–18, 2019 in Waterford, Ireland. Collaborative partner was the Spirituality Institute for Research and Education in Dublin.
The topic of the conference was “Spirituality in Society and the Professions” which was related to the “Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions” edited by Laszlo Zsolnai and Bernadette Flanagan.
Plenary presentations in the conference included the following:
Ralph W. Hood, Jr. (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga): Mysticism and the Relationship between Religion and Spirituality
Luk Bouckaert (Catholic University of Leuven): From Professional Ethics to a Professional Search for Meaning
David Coghlan (Trinity College Dublin): Developing a Spirituality of Scholarship: A First Person Methodological Approach
Stuart Walker (Lancaster University): Spirituality and Design
Kevin Jackson (Fordham University, New York): Music as a Profession of Contemplative Journey: Castles, Bridges, and Butterflies
Celeste Snowber (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver): Body, Spirituality and Passion: Embodied Ways of Inquiry in Vocation
Michael O’Sullivan (Spirituality Institute for Research and Education, Dublin): Spiritual Capital: Spirituality for Social and Planetary Wellbeing
Jose Luis Fernandez-Fernandez and Diana Loyola (Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid): Spirituality as the Foundation of the Ethics of Professions
Erik C. Carter (Loma Linda University, USA): Pilgrimage as a Curricular Organizing Concept for Teaching Spirituality to Occupational Therapists-in-Training