Interspiritual

Seminary

Welcome to the Interspiritual Seminary Pathway

After Interspiritual Foundations, students can choose a year of the Interspiritual Seminary pathway. This 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. Now, One Spirit is offering an add-on to Seminary studies that qualifies students for Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) accreditation.

Program Length: 9 months, starts Sept 2027

9 weekends online via Zoom + 4-day Intensive

Application Opens:
January, 2027

Interspiritual Ministry Ordination

Adding CPE credits is an option

Interspiritual Seminary Pathway

At One Spirit, becoming a minister is about more than what you learn—it is about who you become and how your life is shaped in service to others.

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. Through study, practice, and reflection, participants develop the capacity to hold sacred space, and lead ceremonies and rituals that honor the depth and dignity of human experience.

This pathway prepares ministers to serve in many contexts—leading ceremonies, offering spiritual care, building communities of belonging, and supporting individuals and families through moments of transition, grief, celebration, and renewal. Students may also pursue additional preparation for chaplaincy through Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE).

Whether your roots are grounded in a particular tradition or your spiritual life moves across traditions, One Spirit offers a place to deepen your calling. We honor the distinct voices of the world’s sacred paths while recognizing the values that unite them—compassion, service, humility, and love.

In a world longing for meaning and connection, interspiritual ministers help create spaces where people can encounter the sacred, one another, and the deeper possibilities of their own lives.

Interspiritual Seminary Curriculum

In your second year, you’ll learn to support the human family throughout all the cycles of life through ritual and ceremony. You’ll learn how to be truly present, listen deeply, trust your intuition, and guide others on their spiritual journey.

As you gain a deeper understanding of others and explore the connection between healthy self-care and caring for others, you’ll become more capable of helping others—regardless of their circumstances or experiences.

Serving with deeply human skill is incredibly valuable in our ever-changing world. When you graduate, you’ll have clarity and readiness for what is yours to do.

The next cohort for the Interspiritual Seminary pathway (year two) starts in September 2027.

The program runs through May 2028, meeting a full weekend per month, totaling 18 educational days.

The program year ends with a required in-person 4-day intensive in May/June in the NY area.

Elective requirements: 3 workshop credits per year, plus volunteer hours of choice.

Ordained Minister

As an ordained minister and graduate of One Spirit Seminary, you can add the title Reverend (Rev.) to your name.

CPE Credits

One Spirit is offering our Interspiritual Seminary students the opportunity to earn Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) credits.

As one of the longest-running interspiritual seminaries, One Spirit is widely recognized as the organization of choice for Interfaith and Interspiritual Ministry Ordination.

Seminary Year Two Curriculum:

  • The Practice of Interfaith and Interspiritual Ministry

    • Creating and facilitating liturgy and worship

    • Creating rituals and ceremonies

    • Prayer Support

    • Spiritual Counseling

  • The Path of Skillful Service

    • The heart of serving

    • Ministering within diverse communities

    • Authentic leadership

  • Creating Collective Inspiration

    • Creating meaning in community

    • Facilitating connections and community

Investment, including intensive: $5,400

Payment plans and limited scholarships are available.

Application starts:
January 15, 2027

Application deadline:
June 30, 2027

Add Your Name to the Spiritual Direction & Companioning Interest List

Interspiritual Seminary is one of several pathways in the One Spirit Applied Interspirituality Program

After the Interspiritual Foundations year, students choose a pathway that resonates with their inner calling and vocational focus.

Students choosing the Seminary pathway earn an Ordination of Ministry at graduation. In addition, students can choose to earn CPE credits.

Students at One Spirit build their own educational path.

For example, after completing the second year of the Seminary pathway, a student might choose to add Spiritual Direction & Companioning.

Former graduates of OSLA Seminary or ISCC are welcome to add pathways to their Seminary ordination or ISCC certificate!

The Interspiritual Seminary ordination pathway is the former One Spirit Interfaith/Interspiritual Seminary, now offering the option to earn Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) credits.

The Spiritual Direction & Companioning pathway is the former One Spirit Interspiritual Counseling & Companioning (ISCC) program.

One Spirit also offers Sacred Transitions Doula Training as a professional pathway, earning students a Doula Certification.

The pathway Applied Interspiritual Leadership readies students for spiritual leadership in any industry, earning students a Certification in Applied Interspiritual Leadership.

The “Deeper Curriculum”

The most meaningful learning and growth happen in safe environments that also challenge us to ask important questions, reflect honestly, and go beyond our current ways.

At One Spirit, we invite you to bring your unique experiences and challenges. We will support and nurture you as we encourage your spiritual growth.

Your deep transformation, supported by your peers and our experienced faculty, allows you to serve others with love and spirituality.

The One Spirit “Deeper Curriculum” has helped many students like you reach their highest and most meaningful goals.

Interspiritual Foundations
Add Your Interest

The One Spirit Learning Experience

Classes

Interspiritual Seminary classes are taught one weekend per month by facilitating deans and expert teachers who shepherd growth and learning, deliver lectures, pose transformative questions, and lead group work.

Online Education

We value our global community and offer live video conference training to our diverse students from around the world via our online class portal.

Student Study Groups

Our Interspiritual Foundations students take part in student-led study groups.

These groups promote community, facilitate discussions among diverse group members, provide an opportunity to explore spiritual practice, and engage in ritual and ceremony.

Facilitating Deans

Each year, you'll be assigned a Facilitating Dean who is responsible for supporting your educational progress and spiritual formation through your seminary experience.

Your Dean is available to assist you with educational, personal, and spiritual concerns, and to help explore and resolve issues that may arise during your studies. In our Kaleidoscope teaching model, most deans also participate in facilitating your Seminary classes to support your sacred journey safely.

Sacred Homework

Homework assignments include essential texts, inspiring questions, personal reflection, life reviews, and the design of ceremony and ritual.

They are designed to deepen your understanding, improve your thinking, and expand your sacred experience.

Teachers & Presenters

Our faculty members are among the most experienced educational staff in Interspiritual Education. Teachers will follow your journey throughout the Seminary year, and Presenters share their profound expertise.

Year-End Intensives

Each year culminates in a four-day intensive in the NYC area. We bring our students together from around the world, which always leads to profound personal and collective transformation.

The intensives leave sacred space for certification and ordination ceremonies.

Sacred Service

Our seminary students give at least 20 hours of volunteer service each year of training, although many give much more.

Spiritual Care Team

At One Spirit, we support each other. Students may choose a graduate mentor who will be available to serve as a sounding board and spiritual friend, and a spiritual care team is available throughout the school year.

  • “One Spirit was a positively life-changing experience. My teachers and classmates there transformed me from a lifelong 'wannabe' spiritual leader to an empowered, skilled minister, opening what has been the best part of my life.”

    - Rev. Rosemary Hyde

  • “The most balanced, loving, open, transformative educational experiences of my life have happened in and with One Spirit and its faculty, fellow students and volunteers. My capacity for compassion—for the world and even for myself—increases with every class, every experience. I will never stop learning from One Spirit.”

    — Rev. Melinda W.

  • “My graduation from One Spirit in 2012, was the second most meaningful event in my life (the birth of my son was the first). My experience was rich with diversity, love, learning, growth, compassion and love. Wish I could do it all over again!!”

    — Rev Elaine Richane

  • One Spirit is an exceptional place to study Seminary, Spiritual Counseling and any of their class offerings in spirituality and healing. Their faculty are top notch in their respective fields. Their staff are the most professional, attentive and caring to be found anywhere. I am very happy with my training as an interfaith minister. One Spirit was more than what I expected. They are true to being interfaith, being of service and of providing the best education in this arena.”

    — Mignon Grayson

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.