Cross-Training Fellows host a panel discussion at the IAPT Conference in Saskatoon, Canada!

June 13, 2025 | Saskatoon, Canada

The Cross-Training Fellowship Program members held a panel discussion at the International Academy of Practical Theology 2025 Conference in Saskatoon, Canada. The theme for this year’s conference is “(Be)Coming Home and (Re)Building Community in the Face of Displacement,” and our fellows’ panel is titled: “Intergenerational Discourses and Practices.” The panelists and their respective presentations for the event were:

• Dr. Kevin Muriithi Ndereba:
  • Presentation Title: Leading Youth Homeward: Mental Health Resilience through an African Theology of Hospitality

• Dr. Ann Gillian Chu:
  • Presentation Title: Left-Behind Elderly Parents: Psychology-informed Theology and the Recent Hong Kong Migration Wave (2020 onwards)

• Dr. Aizaiah Yong:
  • Presentation Title: Exploring the Impacts of Self-Compassion on Self-Efficacy in BIPOC Parents

• Dr. Carlton Turner:
  • Presentation Title: Necessary Interdisciplinary Reflections? Psychological Research and the Church of England's Theology around Racism