One Spirit
Applied Interspirituality Program
Welcome to One Spirit Applied Interspirituality Program!
For more than two decades, One Spirit has prepared people to serve the world through interspiritual wisdom, compassion, and courageous care.
Today, the world is changing—and so are the ways spiritual leadership and care show up in our lives.
We are no longer only ministers.
We are companions and collaborators at life’s thresholds.
We are chaplains, caregivers, social workers, activists, artists, business folks, and community builders.
We are people called to serve the sacred in everyday life.
We have reset, reimagined, and realigned our flagship programs, Interfaith/Interspiritual Seminary and Interspiritual Companioning & Counseling (ISCC).
We now welcome you to the One Spirit Applied Interspirituality Program—a renewed pathway for those who feel called to live their spirituality in service to others.
All students start with an Interspiritual Foundations year, followed by a choice of vocational pathways:
Interspiritual Seminary
Spiritual Direction & Companioning
Sacred Transitions Doula Training
Applied Interspiritual Leadership.
Year One: Interspiritual Foundations
Every student in the Applied Interspirituality Program begins with Interspiritual Foundations, a cohort-based, nine-month experience designed to ground participants in the practices, wisdom, and ethical commitments that shape interspiritual service.
During this year, students explore the shared insights of the world’s spiritual traditions while reflecting on life’s profound interconnectedness and the role spirituality can play in fostering healing, belonging, and collective wellbeing. Foundations becomes the common ground for all program pathways and a space to begin discerning how one’s gifts and callings may take shape in service—whether through ministry, spiritual companioning, chaplaincy, community leadership, or care during life’s sacred transitions.
This year is about more than preparing to practice spiritual care. It is also a time of inner formation—growing in maturity, skill, compassion, and awareness. As students deepen their relationship with themselves, they also deepen their capacity for connection with others and with the wider web of life. From that connection arises a deeper sense of responsibility: to act with integrity, to accompany others with care, and to contribute to the wellbeing of the communities and world we share.
Here, spirituality is explored as a lived practice rather than an abstract theory, to shape how participants learn and discover, relate, make ethical choices, and care for the wider world.
Students who have prior training or significant experience in interspiritual study or practice may be eligible to place out of Foundations through our Applied Interspirituality Primer.
• 9 weekends over 9 months
• Starts: September, 2026
Choose Your Path
After completing Interspiritual Foundations, students select the pathway that best aligns with their calling and vocation.
Build-On Year: Vocational Pathway
Each pathway prepares students to bring interspiritual wisdom into a specific area of service with Ordination, CPE, and Certification opportunities.
Interspiritual Seminary Pathway
Our Interspiritual Seminary pathway is faithful to the legacy of the One Spirit Seminary, offering a formation process that invites students into deeper authenticity, spiritual maturity, and compassionate service in the world.
Outcome: Interspiritual Minister Ordination
Optional: Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) accreditation requires additional hours.
9 weekends over 9 months
Starts: September, 2027
Spiritual Direction & Companioning Pathway
Participants develop foundational skills necessary for spiritual direction, such as sacred listening, reflective dialogue, and ethical, compassionate spiritual care. This pathway builds on the sacred foundations of the program formerly called Interspiritual Counseling and Companioning (ISCC).
Outcome: Spiritual Direction & Companioning Certificate
9 weekends over 9 months
Starts: September, 2027
Sacred Transitions Doula Pathway
Life’s greatest transitions—birth, death, and profound transformation—are sacred moments that call for compassionate presence.
The Interspiritual Doula pathway prepares students to accompany individuals and families through these thresholds with reverence, care, and skill.
Outcome: Sacred Transitions Doula Certification
9 weekends over 9 months
Starts: September, 2027
Applied Interspiritual Leadership Pathway
The Applied Interspiritual Leadership pathway prepares participants to bring spiritual awareness, ethical responsibility, and compassionate presence into the many places leadership unfolds—organizations, movements, communities, and institutions.
Outcome: Applied Interspiritual Leadership Certification
6 weekends over 5 months
Starts: January, 2027
All build-on pathways require the completion of Interspiritual Foundations Year One, or previous completion of OSLA Seminary or ISCC. Students who have prior training or significant experience in interspiritual study or practice may be eligible to place out of Foundations through our Applied Interspirituality Primer.
Which pathway speaks to you?
Overview:
One Spirit Applied Interspirituality Program
One Spirit’s program structure encourages students to pursue pathways that develop skills aligned with their inner calling. After completing a year of Interspiritual Foundations or for qualified returning students, individuals can build one or multiple building blocks that support their journey of sacred service.
One Spirit is more than a training program. We’re a living learning community. Students learn alongside peers who are seekers of wisdom, caregivers and counselors, artists and activists, healers and chaplains, dreamers and builders of a more compassionate world. Together we practice what interspirituality teaches—that the sacred is revealed through relationship.
Kaleidoscope Teaching Model
At One Spirit, we believe ministry formation should be as dynamic and sacred as the life it prepares you to serve.
Guided by One Spirit’s Kaleidoscope Pedagogy, learning develops through leadership that draws from diverse lived experiences, hands-on practice, and the collective wisdom of the community.
Students don’t just study ministry—they engage in presence, listening, and discernment in real time, discovering how spiritual insight transforms into compassionate action.
Qualifications for Enrollment in One Spirit’s Programs
We are committed to diversity and welcome all qualified adults to apply. All applicants are given full consideration regardless of age, gender identity, race, religion, ethnic background, national origin, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Each applicant will be assessed individually, and acceptance into the program is based on alignment with the program’s interspiritual perspective and program objectives, as well as personal engagement with a deepening spiritual maturity.
Additional Requirements
English fluency: All course materials are in the English language. As a result, written and spoken English fluency is required.
Technology: A computer or laptop with a webcam, microphone and stable internet connection are needed to participate in online classes and meetings via Zoom. You will also need them to access the online student portal (ClanEd) for course communications and learning content.
A Community of Practice for a Changing World
At One Spirit, we believe that the wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions points toward a profound truth: life is interconnected and sacred.
Our programs cultivate this awareness and translate it into real-world service, care, and community leadership.
Through shared practice, dialogue, and skill-building, students learn how to:
Accompany people through life’s most meaningful transitions
Offer spiritual care across traditions and cultures
Build communities of belonging and compassion
Bring spiritual wisdom into activism, organizations, and everyday life
Integrate spiritual practice with justice, service, and collective wellbeing
This is where the sacred meets the work of everyday life.