Helping students and staff

What are we about?

The Chaplaincy at RMIT helps students and staff connect their educational experience with the wisdom of the major religions and spiritual traditions. These sacred sources are found in word and image, lives and rituals across the planet's history. In this we are a University resource not unlike the fitness centre, art gallery, counselling centre or library; offering a variety of resources to broaden and deepen your present educational experience and your future endeavours.

Who are we?

With a team of trained chaplains, plus visiting spiritual servants and leaders from a variety of traditions, we provide pastoral resources and personal counselling. This might mean offering suggestions for a local worship community or a spiritual home, but it can also mean a cool glass of water or a hot cuppa during a difficult day, simply sitting alongside or standing nearby to encourage people through the trying moments when life closes an old doorway or opens a new challenge.

What else do we do?

The Chaplaincy also offers lectures, conversations, performances, gatherings (usually held at the Spiritual Centre) that challenge, comfort and enrich the depth and texture of your University experience. These aim to connect the themes of personal and corporate faith with issues of heart and soul, justice and mercy, conviction and community. We welcome you to all our gatherings.

Contacting us

Tuesday to Fridays, 10am – 4pm.
Our office is on Level 1, Building 11 (Old Melbourne Gaol)
Phone us at 9925 2043 or email the Senior Chaplain, robert.whalley@rmit.edu.au.