The Wayne E. Oates Institute is a Connected Learning Community exploring spirituality and health as a way to advance integrative care for the whole person. The Oates Institute is a non-profit educational organization made up of caregivers from the medical, spiritual and counseling communities providing a forum for joining together as an interdisciplinary dialogue toward understanding the relationship between spirituality and the healing process.

Carl Aiken, D.Min.
(Integrating Spirituality and Health )

Larry Austin, D.Min., BCC
(Spiritual Assessment: It's a SNAP)

Mark Bigley, M.Div., BCC
(Care of Troublesome People) 

Mera Cossey Corlett, D.Min.
(Preaching and Pastoral Care)

David Dillard, D.Min.
(Anxiety in Christian Experience, Finding Hope When There Is No Cure)

Vern Farnum, D.Min., BCC
(Educating Families on Death and Dying, PlayBIG: Nurturing Creativity and the Soul)

Alan Filippi, M.Div., BCC
(Spirituality and Aging, Human Values and Health Care, In Search of the Holy Grail: A Soul Drama)

Mary Fraser, Ph.D.
(Pastoral Care Specialist Certificate, Coping with Emotional Trauma)

Susan Halvor, M.Div., BCC
(Hope and Wholeness)

Jeffrey Hamilton, Ph.D.
(Pastoral Care Specialist Certificate)

A. Christopher Hammon, D.Min.
(Ministry with the Digital Generation, Power to Bless, Leading into the Future as it Emerges, PlayBIG: Nurturing Creativity and the Soul, Faculty Workshop: Building Community through Learning Conversations, The Search to Belong)

Vicki Hollon, D.Min.
(The Care Giver's Mental Health, Activating Spiritual Resources in a Time of Cancer)

Jim Mahanes, M.S.S.W.
(Managing Conflict through Emotional Intelligence, Healing Power of Forgiveness, Leading into the Future as it Emerges)

Marie McCanless, M.Div.
(Ministry with the Digital Generation, Spirituality and Unemployment)

Daniel Meister, D.Min.
(Exploring Celtic Spirituality)

Cherry Moore, M.Div., MFA
(Art and Healing)

Anne Ogden
(Activating Spiritual Resources in a Time of Cancer)

Pat Pickett, D.Min.
(Ministry in the Face of Grief and Loss)

Karen Pickler, M.Div., BCC
(Hope as a Dynamic for Healing)

Bianca Rauch, M.Div., BCC
(Nurturing Silence and Sabbath)

Martha Rogers, M.Div.
(Ministry to an Aging Society )

Bill Sapp, D.Min.
(Pastoral Care Practicum)

Lynn Smith, M.Div.
(Holding the Boundaries: Professional Ethics in Practice)

Jane M. Thibault, Ph.D.
(Activating Spiritual Resources in a Time of Cancer)

Rick Underwood, D.Min.
(Preaching and Pastoral Care, The Search to Belong)

Jan Waples, M.Div., BCC
(Fiction as a Path to the Spirit, Spirituality of Ghost Stories)

Alan Williams, D.Min.
(Nurturing Silence and Sabbath)