1. Jon Bartlett, M.Ed.
Coordinator for Spirituality and Wellbeing,
Division of Student Affairs

2.  Introduction
 It’s poll time!
 Instructions:
 Use your cell phone to vote.
 Text the number that corresponds with your choice to the
number at the top of the slide.
 You can only respond once.

5.  Religion: “Religiousness typically involves membership in
some kind of community of fellow believers and
practitioners, as well as participation in ceremonies or
rituals” (Astin, 2011).
 Spirituality: “…Spirituality has to do with the values that we
hold most dear, our sense of who we are and where we
come from, our beliefs about why we are here—the
meaning and purpose that we see in our work and our
life—and our sense of connectedness to one another and to
the world around us. Spirituality can also bear on aspects of
our experience that are not easy to define or talk about,
such things as intuition, inspiration, the mysterious, and
the mystical” (Astin, 2011).

6.  There’s room for everyone at the table, regardless of
what you believe.
 What it comes down to: How do you make meaning?
Spirituality
Inner
Religion
Development

7.  The Heinz Dilemma:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJ07klMhr0
 Pair up with a person sitting near you and discuss what
you would do if you were in Heinz’s situation.

8.  Whether you are aware of it or not, you will encounter
subjects with religious and/or spiritual implications
throughout your time in college…

9. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
-The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

10. “We hold these truths to be self-
evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness…”

12. Galileo Galilei

13.  But sometimes it’s more subtle than that.
 Any time you are exploring your…
 Purpose
 Values
 Career/Vocational Goals
 …you’re potentially drawing on your spiritual beliefs.

14.  …is critically important to who you are. It’s part of your
identity.
 For many of you, college represents the first chance
you’ve had to critically reflect on what you believe
outside of the confines of your family and home
culture.
 “Know thyself.”

15.  UNT wants to support you in your spiritual/inner-
development.
 There are a number of campus resources that could be
beneficial to you as you explore your beliefs.
 Consider the following tips:

16.  Spend time in quiet self-reflection.
 This could be in the form of prayer or meditation, but it
doesn’t have to be.
Goolsby Chapel Counseling and Testing, Chestnut Hall

17.  For the sake of your sanity, turn everything off once in
a while. Experience quiet.

18.  Seek out interactions with people who are different
from you.
 Practice:
 Tolerance
 Hospitality
 Understanding
 Respect
 Acceptance
 “Holy Envy”
UNT-International, IELI Office
Sycamore Hall, 940-565-2003

19.  Give back to your community through service and
philanthropy.
The Center for
Leadership and
Service, Union 422
Activities include:
• Make a
Difference Day
• The Big Event
• Alternative
Spring Break

20.  If being connected to a house of worship is important
to you, and something you did before you came to
UNT, consider finding one in or near the Denton area
that fits your needs.

21.  Find someone you respect who is older than you and
learn from them.
 Could be an upperclassmen: Multicultural Center,
Buddy System (peer mentoring program)
 Could be a faculty/staff member: Seriously, we’re normal
people.
 Could be a campus minister or someone from your place
of worship.

22.  Find a student organization that represents your
beliefs and values.
 Student Activities Center, Union 320,
studentactivities.unt.edu

23.  Questions? Comments?
 Contact me:
Jon Bartlett
Chestnut 155B
jon.bartlett@unt.edu
940-565-3288