# The development of an online intellectual humility intervention for religious or spiritual conflict

## TL;DR

This paper introduces an online program to help people manage conflicts related to religion or spirituality by fostering intellectual humility, which may reduce psychological distress.

## Contribution

The paper presents a novel online intervention called Grounded to Grow, designed to address religious/spiritual conflicts through intellectual humility.

## Key findings

- Grounded to Grow is a secular, spiritually-sensitive online intervention for managing R/S conflicts.
- Preliminary feedback from participants indicates a positive response to the intervention.
- The intervention aims to reduce psychological distress associated with R/S conflicts.

## Abstract

Interpersonal religious/spiritual (R/S) conflicts are relatively common and have serious mental health implications. Recent theories suggest that intellectual humility might mitigate R/S conflict and ameliorate negative outcomes. This paper delineates the development and implementation of Grounded to Grow, an asynchronous online intervention designed to help individuals navigate R/S conflicts and to minimize associated psychological distress. This paper outlines the theoretical framework used to create the intervention, describes the intervention, and highlights the planned methods for examining the effectiveness of the intervention. Grounded to Grow is appropriate for religious, spiritual, non-religious, and non-spiritual individuals. This secular, yet spiritually-sensitive approach to addressing R/S conflicts offers inclusive and personalized support, with the potential to enhance well-being across psychological, social, and spiritual domains.

•Interpersonal conflicts about religion/spirituality have known mental health implications.•Intellectual humility may mitigate such conflicts and their outcomes.•We describe an online intellectual humility intervention for religious/spiritual conflict.•Preliminary participant feedback is positive.

Interpersonal conflicts about religion/spirituality have known mental health implications.

Intellectual humility may mitigate such conflicts and their outcomes.

We describe an online intellectual humility intervention for religious/spiritual conflict.

Preliminary participant feedback is positive.