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At Ezzree Institute, we explore questions like these and give you the tools to respond with compassion and courage.

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Justice is love for our community. It means no one can thrive until everyone has safety, dignity, and opportunity.

At Ezzree Institute, we prepare leaders for a world full of challenges and inequities. Here, you’ll create a learning path that reflects your spiritual gifts, your mission, and your calling. Study with us, deepen your understanding, and turn your care into action.

Faith is not a destination or a set of rigid answers; it is a lifelong journey of discovery, curiosity, and service.

At Ezzree Institute, we hold space for seekers, doubters, and those who believe that Truth is far bigger than our certainties, and that Justice should always be pursued.

Join us, and become part of a community where your questions, your curiosity, and your drive to make a difference are welcomed and celebrated.

The world is calling for leaders who listen, care, and act with clarity.
True leadership starts within, connecting to oneself, leading with compassion, and making choices rooted in heart and awareness.

At Ezzree Institute, we guide those ready to strengthen their inner skills and step into the spiritually grounded leadership the future truly needs.

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Empathetic leadership is the skill the future needs most. In a fast-moving world, it’s becoming rare to truly listen—not just to respond, but to understand.
At Ezzree Institute, we believe leadership begins with intentional attention to people, to communities, and to the moment we’re living in.

What leadership quality do you think the world needs next?
Share your thoughts below. 🙂

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Ezzree Institute invites you to join us for two upcoming spiritual care seminars on January 23, 2025, designed to support the continued development of current and emerging spiritual care providers.

🟣 Boundaries, Transference, and Countertransference in Leadership and
Spiritual Care
9:00–10:15 AM PST
with Karen Lee Erlichman, D.Min, LCSW
This session will address the importance of maintaining healthy, ethical, and appropriate boundaries in spiritual leadership and care settings.

🔵 The Neuroscience of Spiritual Care
10:30 AM–12:00 PM PST
with Chaplain Blake Arnall
Participants will explore current research on the mind–body–spirit connection and the role of spiritual care practices in supporting coping and wellbeing, particularly for individuals facing serious illness or end of life.

To RSVP, please email [email protected].
We look forward to your participation.

All are welcome!
Sunday November 16, @ 4PM pst.

Inaugural Salon Ezzree: Poetry Café Ezzree Institute warmly invites you to an event of rhythm, spirit, and connection at our inaugural Ezzree Poetry Café with Rabbi Anita Josefa Barzman, MD.

If you’re someone who feels a lot—who notices pain in the world and wants to help—this is for you.

Maybe you’ve always been the one people turn to.
Maybe you’ve wondered if there's a way to use your empathy for something bigger, something lasting.
Maybe you’ve felt alone in how much you care.

Ezzree Institute is building a community for people like you. People who want to help, to heal, to lead—but not in the loudest way. In a grounded, thoughtful, human way.

Our Master’s program gives you tools to connect your natural care with real leadership skills.
And just as importantly, it gives you people to walk with.

If this speaks to you, come see what we’re about.
🔗 www.EzzreeInstitute.org

📖 Must-Read: The Changing Face of Chaplaincy
RNS recently highlighted the growing demand for non-religious and interreligious chaplains—a shift that is transforming how we understand spiritual care in the 21st century.
As Professor Vanessa Gomez Brake, Ed.D., M.Div., notes in the article:

“I think people are just as spiritual and religious as they’ve ever been,” she said, “but we’re finding new terminology for it because we don’t trust the institutions. … We don’t want to be affiliated with them, but folks still have needs for their spiritual well-being and health.”

This conversation resonates deeply with the work we are doing at Ezzree Institute.

We are proud to announce that Professor Gomez Brake will bring her expertise to our classrooms this Fall in the course:
Spiritual Care at the Intersections: Skills for Postreligious, Multireligious, and Interreligious Contexts.
📅 The course begins the first week of September.
🔗 Read the full article here: https://religionnews.com/2025/08/08/there-is-a-growing-need-for-non-religious-chaplains-as-they-step-into-this-work-theyre-changing-how-we-think-about-chaplaincy/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMZzvdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkJ9A_wiLe2yS4NymfbDOV6VD_KTSaoTmHOTYQYuVSLNPMVPjLCehosTOr0C_aem_SPG1QYxfSiGup8LWx9uyuw

Non-religious chaplains are changing how we understand spiritual care (RNS) — As religious demographics shift overall, so, too, do the religious identities represented among chaplains.

Not everyone fits into a one-size-fits-all model of education.
At Ezzree Institute, we don’t expect you to.

That’s why our Master’s program allows you to build your own curriculum, shaped by your passions, guided by your purpose, and supported by faculty who truly get it.

Whether you’re focused on healing, systems change, storytelling, or community leadership, you’ll have the freedom to design a learning path that honors your experience and pushes you forward.

If you’re ready to lead on your own terms, Ezzree offers the structure and support to make it real.
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📿 New Community Class: Elul
Join us for a new 4-part community class led by Rabbi Rachel Adler, Ph.D.,a pioneering feminist theologian, ethicist, and award winning author.

🗓 Thursdays: August 28, September 4, 11, and 18
🕛 12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET
🌐 Online | All are welcome
📧 Inquire at: [email protected]
❤️ Suggested Donation: $36 https://ezzreeinstitute.donorsupport.co/page/EZZREEDONATION1000

Rabbi Adler is the author of Engendering Judaism and Tales of the Holy Mysticat, and has published over 60 scholarly articles on ethics, spirituality, and community. Her work invites all of us—regardless of background—to reflect deeply on our lives and values.

🌟 Take time to slow down, center yourself, and move into the new year with clarity and purpose.
📲 Tag a friend and join us!