Workshops 2025/26
Workshops for seminary students, affiliates, and community members!
The 2025/26 workshop series at One Spirit is rooted in applied spirituality—where inner transformation meets outer action. This year, we focus on how spiritual practices, values, and presence can be actively engaged in the work of justice, healing, and collective liberation.
Sign-ups are live now until June 15th!
One Spirit Affinity Group Monthly Meeting: One Spirit in Recovery
One Spirit in Recovery Monthly Meeting
Meets every 3rd Tuesday of the Month at 7:00 pm EST.
Open to current One Spirit students and alumni in recovery.
One Spirit Affinity Group: The Interspiritual Prayer Circle
One Spirit Interspiritual Prayer Circle Monthly Meeting
Meets every 4th Sunday of the month at 9:30 am ET.
A nurturing space created for the One Spirit community ministers and everyone seeking solace, connection, and upliftment through interspiritual prayer.
OSLA Community + Board Meeting
Hosted by the One Spirit Board of Trustees and CEO, join the OSLA community for an hour of connection, spiritual practice, organizational updates, strategic listening and visioning for the future on Tuesday, November 3rd from 6:00pm - 7:00pm ET.
Ritual, Belonging, and Sacred Difference
Creating Meaningful Practice that Honors Spiritual Diversity
Develop the art of creating sacred experiences that truly welcome all while honoring diverse beliefs, traditions, and identities.
Sacred Text Series: A Course in Miracles
Can changing our perspective change our experience? A Course in Miracles teaches us how to meet life's challenges with greater peace and a deeper connection to the All of the Divine Beloved.
Marketing and More for Ministers
Spiritual Discernment for Sharing Your Ministry
Discover how to market your ministry, reach the people who need your gifts, and grow your practice without compromising your values.
Sacred Healing: The MESH Approach
When Reconciliation Isn’t Possible, Healing Is
Explore emotional, spiritual, creative, and embodied practices that support healing without requiring restoring a relationship.
Sacred Text Series: The Dhammapada
What if our most difficult experiences could become a source of profound transformation? These Buddhist Texts invite us into a peace possible even in the midst of grief and uncertainty.
Writing with the Mystics: a Poetry Immersion
What if poetry could be a form of prayer?
Explore how allowing your writing to guide you can lead you towards deeper discovery, curiosity, self-compassion, contemplation, and wonderment.
The Working Officiant
Building Your Ceremony Practice
Learn how to find your voice, create ceremonies that honor each couple's story, and build a sustainable wedding officiant practice grounded in your values.
Sacred Text Series: The Christian Bible
What can Christian Bible stories teach us about finding hope, courage, and new possibilities in times of uncertainty? People in crisis wrote these texts. Their stories can help us in ours.
Dreaming Ourselves Awake
Envisioning Liberated Futures and Writing Them Into Being
What if imagining a different future is where change begins? Explore storytelling, spirituality, and the possibilities of worlds not yet written.
Sacred Text Series: The I Ching
What if the ancient practice of Divination could help us recognize life's patterns, rediscover our purpose, and turn personal growth into meaningful change? The I Ching teaches: When we rise, all rise.
Animal Spirituality & Sacred Human-Animal Connections
Jane Goodall, Animal Theology, and the Animals We Each Know
Can animals experience the sacred? Explore what science, spirituality, and our relationships with animals might reveal.
Making Good Trouble, Leading with Love
An interspiritual approach to fighting for social justice
When should we build bridges, and when must we break them? Discover how spiritual practice can guide courageous action for social change.
Sacred Text Series: The Qur’an
What happens to crisis when we respond by softening our hearts? The Holy Qur’an and Islamic spiritual wisdom can guide us to rediscover the wisdom, strength, and power of our compassion.
Sacred Text Series: The Hebrew Scriptures
What can the stories of Hebrew Scripture teach us about finding hope and meaning through grief, loss, and life's greatest transitions? Healing, resilience, and new beginnings are always possible.
One Spirit Admissions Fair
One Spirit Admissions Fair
One Day Only: On-the-Spot Admissions
Considering seminary? Ready for your next pathway of study? Come prepared to move from discernment to decision.
For one day only, One Spirit is opening an Admissions Fair with an on-the-spot admissions process for prospective students and One Spirit graduates seeking early admission into an additional pathway of study.
Whether you are discerning your first step into One Spirit or returning to deepen and expand your formation, this is an opportunity to explore what comes next and, for qualified applicants, complete the admissions process that same day.
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Interspiritual Dialogue: A Two-Part Public Lecture Series | How Do We Discern a Call?
Interspiritual Dialogue: A Two-Part Public Lecture Series
August 15 — How Do We Discern a Call?
August 29 — The Dark Night of the Soul: Torture, Transformation or Something Else?
These gatherings are both public lectures and opportunities to learn about One Spirit’s seminary experience. Alongside each teaching, recent graduates will share how their formation has shaped their ministries, relationships, spiritual practices, and ways of meeting the world.
Come with your questions. Come curious about the subject matter, the seminary, or both.
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One Spirit Affinity Group: Minister of Color Sacred Circle
One Spirit Ministers of Color Sacred Circle
Meets every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm EST.
Open to graduates and current students who identify as melanated people.
One Spirit LIVE
One Spirit Live
Every Wednesday at 3:00 pm ET, join us LIVE on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube. Featuring faculty, alumni, students, and special guests, One Spirit Live offers thoughtful dialogue, practical insight, and an opportunity to learn more about the One Spirit community and educational programs. All are welcome.
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(North Carolina) Spiritual Leadership in Real Time: An OSLA Info Session for the Applied Spirituality Program
Join OSLA Graduates for an in-person in North Carolina conversation and dialogue exploring how spiritual leadership is evolving, how people from diverse backgrounds are stepping forward to serve, and applying for interspiritual training at One Spirit.
Recording: Book Talk with Dr Kurt Johnson on Interspirituality, Volumes I & II
Don’t miss this opportunity to watch the recording of the discussion with Dr. Kurt Johnson and Rev. Diane Berke about the historic publishing of the volumes Interspirituality: The Heritage and Interspirituality: The Future. These volumes, published in the fall of 2025, follow the 25-year anniversary of Wayne Teasdale’s The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions and Kurt Johnson’s The Coming Interspiritual Age (2013).
Recording: WORTH: Money, Meaning, and What Matters—an interspiritual perspective
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in deep discussion with wealth management experts Jeff Gitterman and Adam Cummings about “What makes life worth living?” and the tensions between internal coherence and external success.
Sacred Rebels —The Visionary Spirituality of the American Transcendentalists
Before “interspirituality” had a name, the Transcendentalists were living it. Explore the philosophy and practices that wove together Buddhist, Hindu, and Indigenous insights with a fierce devotion to intuition, nature, and social transformation, and how they can inform the change we seek today.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Relighting the Cauldron —Embracing Nature Spirituality for the Modern World
Discover the commonalities among Nature-based practitioners across cultures and explore embodiment of the five elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit through meditation, chants, and experiential connection to Nature.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Telling Our Stories — Storytelling to Heal & Revere Ancestral Lineage
Experience personal storytelling as a vehicle to heal and revere your ancestral lineage and acquire tools to utilize storytelling as a sacred spiritual practice.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Spiritual Citizenship
Explore the profound impact that religious and spiritual beliefs have on citizenship, and the interconnection between politics, religion, and society.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Mother Earth Spirituality —Meeting the Soul in Nature
Develop or deepen your relationship with Mother Earth in an experiential journey into Nature as Spirit manifest in the world using methods that bring an intimacy heretofore unknown in the Western world’s approach.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Animal Funerals and Habitat Memorials
Learn creative methods for honoring the more-than-just-human world and open doorways to conversations and practices to help us cope with the emotions of living in a messy, interconnected world.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Spiritual Activism —Seeing Spirit in Social Transformation
Discover the meaning of Spiritual Activism — how we are living in relationship with ourselves, close relationships, and community — and how it is a sustainable path to larger social transformation.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Know Justice Know Peace —Healing Humanity & The Enneagram
The Enneagram is not a box—it is a sacred map guiding us back to our true essence. In this workshop, we will explore how its wisdom helps us recognize our patterns, heal our wounds, and nurture compassion for ourselves and others.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Soul Nourishment —Replenishing our Presence and Purpose
Reconnect, nourish, and encourage the soulful Presence that is at the core of your being through a powerful guided practice of ritual, poetry, and prayer.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Deep Listening and Personal Reactivity
One of the most profound gifts we can offer each other in spiritual care is to create spaces where people feel fully heard. Discover the sacred act of deep listening and tools for how to address the barriers of our own personal activation.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
Loss and Longing —Grief as a Spiritual Path
Delve into the sacred space of the broken-open heart, guided by the wisdom of mystics across the spiritual traditions, as an opportunity to participate in the transformational power of the dark night of the world's soul.
An OSLA Recorded Offering Available Now!
One Spirit Class of 2026 Commencement
One Spirit Class of 2026 Commencement
Celebrate the next class of interspiritual leaders via Recording
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RELEASE BAG DRIVE WITH OSIA & IPP
Join One Spirit in Action (OSIA) in supporting a drive, together with Interfaith Prison Partnership, to collect enough items for 30-50 Release Bags by May 31, 2026.
When the World Feels Heavy: A Dedication to the Alleviation of Suffering
Join us for an evening of ministry, sacred practice, and a shared purpose of responding to the crisis of now with an interspiritual community.
OSLA Group Supervision for Affiliated Graduates
Open to affiliated graduates to support the ongoing development of your interspiritual practice as an Interspiritual Minister, Counselor and Companion, and/or Spiritual Director.
An Evening of Breath: Revolutionary Love for Ourselves
Join One Spirit in Action for a space to move through the revolutionary love compass from the work of Valeria Kaur, in this final installment of the Breath Series.
On Conflict Avoidance—The Perils of Peace Keeping
Live out your authentic truth, in trust, and explore means of navigating conflict in ways that affirm our authentic selves to promote more holistic ways of being.
One full-day workshop, April 19, 2026, from 9:30AM-5:00PM ET.
From Hopelessness to Hope
Hosted by One Spirit in Action, join the One Spirit community for an evening of exploring "fight" and its role in ministry and sacred service.
Leaning Into Joy
Embrace the invitation of Joy— explore the pillars of joy and how to cultivate and integrate the practices that open and orient us toward joyful living.
One full-day workshop, March 14, 2026, from 9:30AM-5:00PM ET.
The Sacred Space of You and Me— An Introduction to Intimate Relationship as Spiritual Crucible
An introductory-level workshop to begin exploring a grounded approach to consciously integrating spirituality into your relationship through our shadow selves.
Three workshop evenings, Tuesdays, March 10, 17, and 24, 2026, from 6:00-8:00PM ET.
Coming Back to Earth—Soil Regeneration as Spiritual Practice
Heed your calling to be a caretaker of the Earth by exploring composting as a central spiritual practice that brings us back into the flow of life and nourishes biodiversity, thereby healing both our souls and the soil.
Four workshop evenings, March 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2026, from 6:30-8:30PM ET.
20th Century Mystics at the Margin
A literary workshop that brings the ancient idea of mystic into current times, making it accessible to all and applicable to ministry and social justice work.
Three workshop evenings, March 4, 11, and 18, 2026, from 6:00-9:00PM ET.
A Course in Miracles: Community Circles
Explore the living teachings of A Course in Miracles not as theory, but as a path that moves through your relationships, your choices, your fears, your longing, your everyday life.