LIVE via Zoom
Saturday, March 28th, 10:30 AM- 12:00 PM ET
Spiritual Leadership in Real Time: An Interspiritual Dialogue on Polycrises
— An OSLA Info Session for the Applied Spirituality Training Program
(formerly Seminary / ISCC / Thanatology)
With Rev. Ali’a Edwards, Rev. Dawn Reddick-Umoja, and Rev. Amanda Lohman Yeu
Is Spiritual Leadership Calling You?
Many people feel a quiet but persistent call to serve others spiritually. In a world marked by isolation, uncertainty, and rapid change, the need for thoughtful, compassionate spiritual leaders is growing.
Across cultures and communities, people are searching for meaning, connection, and care.
Interspiritual ministry responds to this moment by preparing leaders who can provide care, guidance, and community, accompanying others through grief, celebration, transformation, and spiritual inquiry — beyond the boundaries of any single tradition.
This interactive online session will introduce you to a growing movement of interspiritual ministers and practitioners working for personal healing and collective wellbeing.
This online session offers an opportunity to:
Explore what interfaith spiritual care looks like in today’s world
Reflect on your own sense of calling or purpose to meet this moment
Meet members of the One Spirit learning community
Learn about the path toward interspiritual training
Take the next steps for applying to the 2027 training program year
Through conversation and dialogue, we’ll explore how spiritual leadership is evolving — and how people from diverse backgrounds are stepping forward to serve.
If you feel drawn toward deeper purpose, service, or community leadership, this conversation is designed for you — Join us March 28 at 10:30 AM EDT.
About the Co-Facilitator,
Rev. Ali’a Edwards
Facilitating Dean, Interspiritual Foundations & One Spirit Interspiritual Seminary
Reverend Ali’a B. Edwards is a grateful and proud 2012 graduate of the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. She is overjoyed to be a ‘newbie’ Dean with the honor of holding sacred space for the incoming Class of 2024. She is the mother of one young adult son who is the brightest light and greatest teacher in her life.
Ali’a is a hospice chaplain in Northeast Louisiana and an airport chaplain in Atlanta. She is a humanist, an interspiritual minister, and a student and practitioner of Buddhism, cherishing her spiritual practices. Ali’a is curious, playful, and adventurous. She adores her family and friends.
Ali’a is an artist in love with life, determined to relish Life as it unfolds. In the powerful and multigenerational tradition of her matrilineal lineage, she is a praying woman. Ali’a is the writer and designer of several self-guided spiritual tools and journals. She is the spiritual leader of Rosewood Monastery, the contemplative respite and discernment enclave she founded in the Deep South.
About the Co-Facilitator,
Rev. Dawn Reddick-Umoja
Class of 2024
Who is Dawn/Ahan?
(Ahan is the male variation of Dawn in Sanskrit/Hindi)
We are just beginning to understand who we are as individuals, having
started our lives over after releasing our 26 year marriage.
We are newly ordained inter-faith/inter-spiritual ministers.
We are a collective, continually living into our name:
Dawn- illumination preceded by a time of darkness.
We are an ecosystem, consciously co-creating our unfolding.
We create, therefore we are!
We are day and night time dreamers, intuitively weaving visions of
sensations, aspirations, contemplations.
We reside in a state of resonance with all facets of our inner
universe, expressing outwardly.
We are seekers and consider ourselves eternal students,
now being called to walk in our teacher shoes.
We are ministers, coach/companions, energy healers, artisans.
About the Co-Facilitator,
Rev. Amanda Lohman Yeu
Class of 2025
As a person walking a spiritual path that honors the wisdom of many traditions, Amanda strives to live in a way that reflects the sacredness of all life, and the interconnectedness of all beings. She answers the call to serve with love, compassion, integrity, and presence.
Amanda emphasizes spiritual autonomy, and the unfolding of innate inner wisdom and personal truth.
Honoring the richness of spiritual diversity and the many ways in which the Divine is known, named and experienced, Amanda does not seek to convert, but to understand, accompany and celebrate the spiritual journeys of others with reverence and curiosity.
Rev. Amanda is a One Spirit Interfaith Seminary graduate of the class of 2025. She has the honor to sit as an End of Life Doula with those in life transition. Amanda is an E-RYT 500 Yoga Guide and Somatic Practitioner, specializing in grief support, recovery and trauma.
Amanda lives in Northern New Jersey, land and ancestral home of the Lenape People.