Atla Annual 2024

This workshop will cover essential skills in crafting compelling grant proposals. Learn to decode grant lingo, develop realistic budgets, write persuasive narratives, and overcome common application pitfalls. Practical examples from successful applications will be shared, and interactive exercises will foster a collaborative learning environment. Whether you're new to grant writing or seeking to enhance your skills, this workshop equips you with the knowledge to confidently navigate the grant writing process and secure funding for your projects.

Attendees will gain practical tips for completing a grant application including developing realistic budgets, writing persuasive narratives, and overcoming common application pitfalls.

This workshop serves as an introduction to restorative justice theory and practice, including the values that undergird and support restorative initiatives. The workshop will include experiential components, small group conversations, as well as presentation/lecture.

The emergence of artificial intelligence presents an unprecedented disruption to both the present and future of learning. In theological education in particular it presents a unique opportunity to embrace tendencies and capacities that have long been essential to our work but have been limited by the power of our tools and time.

In this presentation we will take a deep dive into what is described as "ensemble" tools. These are artificial intelligence tools that leverage both the generative and computational capacities of AI to transform the way that we access, understand, leverage, and innovate from the nearly immeasurable ocean of learning and expertise that is already with us.

Understanding how these tools can and should be strategically incorporated into our research and learning, particularly as we learn to expand into non-adjacent areas of inquiry (e.g., religion and medicine, religion and law, religion and political science, etc.), is essential to the future of theological education and theological libraries.

This workshop presents a framework for this kind of engagement, initial recommendations about policy for institutions, and an introduction to "stacking," a methodology by which user's can cultivate the compounding power of AI tools in their work. This workshop will also build upon the insights and presentations that are shared during the regular portion of the conference.

There is but a brief window for theological education not only to reach its full potential as a transformative force in higher education and the world, but also for shaping the future of human learning and expertise far beyond our disciplinary boundaries.

The philosopher Eric Hoffer captures this beautifully: "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

This is our moment.

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