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Stronger together: Looking out for one another – acting together (Take Care – together!)

Project Overview

The project is run by Diakonie Deutschland. The aim is to establish a caring corporate culture that sustainably enhances job satisfaction, health and team cohesion, and provides better support for staff working in nursing and care.

The focus is on interprofessional training courses on Spiritual/Existential Care (SpECi), which promote staff resilience and self-care and thereby also improve teamwork.

The implementation of these measures is being examined through an accompanying scientific study conducted by the Professorship of Life Quality, Spirituality and Coping at Witten/Herdecke University. Key aspects such as well-being, job satisfaction, perceived stress, resilience and spiritual care competence will be assessed and supplemented with structural indicators from human resources management. In addition, conditions for part-time work and potential increases in working hours will be analysed. The study aims to evaluate the impact of the interventions on a sound basis, identify potential for transfer and derive recommendations for action to ensure the sustainable establishment of a caring corporate culture.

Six diaconal organisations and their institutions are involved in implementing the project.

Further information

Documents to download

Project leaflet: Take care together

Format: pdf
Size: 239 KB

Series of events: Digital Diaconal Fireside Chats

As part of the project, a series of events is taking place: Digital Diaconal Fireside Chats.

The content of these evenings can be viewed again on Diakonie Deutschland’s YouTube channel:

 

  1. A Diaconal Corporate Culture – Where Do We Stand?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZqV8-LBYA
  2. A diaconal corporate culture – experiences, insights and inspiration from good diaconal practice
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WITTGYMsHY
  3. Does spiritual care make the difference?! SpECi – a key building block in the development of a caring corporate culture
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgOhynqLD8c&list=PLcxmmMEN5Ja2F0ZLgdzDAQ74ABqG-XOeg&index=1

Further sessions:

SESSION 4: Monday, 22 June 2026:

Working title: Spiritual Care – A mission and an opportunity for the care sector!


SESSION 5: Monday, 14 September 2026:

Working title: Implementation of SC


SESSION 6: Monday, 30 November 2026:

Working title: A Caring Corporate Culture in the Social Services Sector

Project Management

Overall project management:

Dr Astrid Giebel

dr.astrid.giebel@diakonie.de

T +49 30 652 11-1771

 

Project team:

  • Daniela Kiefer-Fischer (EWDE Programme Officer)
  • Dr Marianne Kloke (Senior Advisor)

 

Co-project lead, responsible for the accompanying research study at the UW/H: