Blueprint 1543 will plan and facilitate a two-day workshop designed to enable sharing of and learning from TWCF’s Science of Religious and Spiritual Exercises (SoRSE). The project, led by Blueprint 1543 co-founders Rebecca Dorsey and Justin Barrett, aims to help develop strong end results for the SoRSE program.

The workshop will convene SoRSE grantees (primarily psychologists); expert practitioners of religious and spiritual practices from religious communities and other applied contexts (e.g., chaplaincy); researchers and scholars who study religious and spiritual practices from other disciplinary backgrounds; and researchers with experience of engaging with innovation and industry. The aim is to support the development of scholars and practitioners working with scientifically-vetted, effective religious and spiritual exercises and practices.

The project team will identify the principles and how-to steps for scholars and practitioners to work together in the science and innovation of religious and spiritual exercises. A guidebook resource, based on learnings from the workshop that can be used to facilitate real-time partnerships with researchers and practitioners, is planned. 

The insights, lessons learned, and principles shared during the workshop are anticipated to be relevant to and informative for current grantees, future SoRSE applicants and grantees, and to researchers who are interested in doing cross-disciplinary (e.g. psychology and religious studies) and cross-sector (e.g., psychological science and tool development) work.