ONE SPIRIT AFFINITY GROUP

One Spirit Learning Alliance

Spiritual Care Team

The Spiritual Care and Support team at One Spirit Learning Alliance

Free Spiritual Care and Support from Volunteer Graduates of
One Spirit Learning Alliance Interfaith / Interpsiritual Seminary

Vision

Our vision is to support the sangha known as One Spirit as we hold all members, the students, educators, board members, alumni, and the community-at-large in sacred consciousness.

Mission:

In support of OSLA’s Vision and Mission, our mission is to incite and facilitate the evolution of sacred consciousness; to offer experiential interfaith/interspiritual professional training; to support personal transformation in service to individuals, communities, and the Earth.

Intention

Our intention, guided by OSLA’s ethics and values, is to facilitate access to spiritual care and support, through prayer, meditation, listening, and sharing to every member of the One Spirit community that seeks or has need of spiritual care and support.

Do You Have Questions or Need Spiritual Care?

Please reach out to the SCT at care@1spirit.org

Reach Out

Answer the Call

It may sound or feel like that still small voice, a gentle urging that led you into service, to One Spirit Learning Alliance. Or perhaps it feels stronger than that, more like a quiet maelstrom, pulling and pushing you forward — to do something, to help.

We invite you to answer that call to serve. One Spirit Learning Alliance is seeking volunteers to join a small dedicated team of One Spirit Ministers to serve as members of The Spiritual Care and Support Team for the school year 2026-2027, beginning August 2027.

Guided by our vision, we act to assist in the creation and holding of sacred consciousness and space for the students, educators, board members, alumni, and the sangha that is One Spirit Learning Alliance.

The mission of the Spiritual Care and Support Team is to support OSLA’s Vision and Mission to inspire and advance the evolution of sacred consciousness and to offer experiential interfaith and interspiritual professional training to support personal transformation in service to individuals, communities, and the Earth.

The work of the Spiritual Care Team is grounded in OSLA’s Foundations of Ministry and guided by its ethical code and values. Our intention is to nurture a culture of spiritual care throughout the One Spirit community. Through a kaleidoscope model of shared leadership, we facilitate access to and offer prayer, meditation, deep listening, spiritual companionship, and other forms of compassionate support to all who seek care. We affirm that spiritual care is a ministry of presence that strengthens individual vocations, collective resilience, and the unfolding work of love in the world.

If this opportunity for service intrigues or speaks to you, kindly submit a letter of interest and CV by email to Care@1spirit.org. In your letter, briefly introduce yourself — tell us a little about you, your spiritual path, and your journey since ordination. We look forward to connecting with you.

Peace always,

Rev. Larry Jett Wilson
Spiritual Care and Support Team

Spiritual Care Team (SCT)

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  • Reverend Larry Wilson or Reverend Jett as he prefers to be called, retired from the New York City Department of Education in 2015. There he served as teacher, staff developer, High School Principal and Assistant Superintendent over a 30 year span.  Rev. Jett  graduated from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in 2013 where he took his Vows of Ministry as an ordained Interfaith, Inter-Spiritual Minister. He is Elegun in the Yoruba/Ifa tradition and is an ENELDA-certified End-of-Life Doula.  Rev. Wilson  has served as a Dean of Students for first year students at OSIS (2020-2022) and most recently as Chaplain’s Assistant under Chaplain Rev. Martha Dewing.  He is now a member of the Spiritual Care and Support Team.

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  • 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.

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  • 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...

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  • Rev Meredith is a One Spirit Interfaith Seminary Graduate, Class of 2025. Meredith is a daughter, sister, aunt, friend, interfaith/inter-spiritual minister, practicing psychic medium, and a public health consultant. Growing up she practiced Judaism and still feels strongly connected to those roots, though she no longer practices Judaism as an adult. Her main spiritual path has always been personal and experiential, and she does not regularly participate in any specific organized religious or spiritual system, though she respects and welcomes those practices for others. She believes that Love is the strongest force within human existence, that all life is connected, and that we are all part of the same thing; so lovingkindness, compassion, and service are the foundation of her approach to life and her spiritual practices. She lives in Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

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  • Rev. Simone A. S. Gellizeau, Class of 2025, is an interfaith minister, writer, and cultural curator whose work bridges spirituality, the arts, and social transformation. Drawing from Quaker practice, African diaspora traditions, New Thought, and global mysticism, her ministry explores how beauty, culture, and sacred practice support healing and liberation.

  • This is Rev Marcy Perlman Tardio, class of 2026!

    I've been a spiritual seeker for most of my adult life. I live in the questions more than the answers. I grew up in a secular/ politically-left Jewish family and in my spiritual journey have leaned into Islam and Zen Buddhism as well.

    I'm a retired homebirth midwife and RN (oncology, trauma ICU, and maternity); thus, I've sat with people in many capacities during the life cycle. During my time at One Spirit, I was a hospice and American Red Cross (disaster care)volunteer. I also attended Union Theological Seminary: Buddhist Inter-Religious Engagement path, with one CPE unit in chaplaincy and a Master of Divinity degree.

    Since graduating from One Spirit, I have been quietly introspective. As an 'elder' (74 yrs), I am considering what's next for me in my path of meaning and purpose. I'm preparing to travel from Aug 8 through 31 Oct 2026, based in Paris.

    These 5 yrs in two seminaries have taught me to listen deeply and lean into a compassionate heart. I've been told a strength of mine is allowing people to feel heard. I am working on becoming more conversant in Spanish and French, interested in learning ASL, and I knit, do Pilates, gyrotonics, gym, occasionally yoga, swimming, and cycling. I'm a mother of two adult men and grandmother to 3 young men. I've delivered approximately 1000 babies. I grew up in the Bronx and now live in Orange, NJ by way of West Virginia, San Francisco, Boston and Brooklyn.

    On my return from Paris, I'm considering becoming part of the spiritual care team at my local hospice and/or joining a local rabbi to visit prisoners.

    Someone recently said to me: "spiritual care is who you are, not what you do." I appreciate that sentiment and feel that perhaps it's true.