4 Sessions beginning Thursday, April 1st
Dates: Thursday and Friday, April 1 - 2, 2021, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm EST
Saturday and Sunday, April 3 - 4, 2021, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm
Available by: Join by Videoconference or Watch Online Recordings (learn more about videoconference)
Price: General Public: $ 225.00 | One Spirit Graduates: $ 180.00
One Spirit Elective Credit: 2.0
Never before has the need for sacred activism – active engagement to support world transformation for justice, equity, and peace, from a consciousness of unity and interconnection rather than separation and division – been greater. At the heart of sacred activism lies a profound commitment to remain, in Rumi’s words, a “true human being,” even in inhuman times. In this weekend with Andrew Harvey and Diane Berke, we will explore what it means to be a true human being as well as learn and engage in the essential practices we need to nourish and sustain our humanity through times of challenge and uncertainty.
The practices we will explore in this weekend include
Foundational practices to ground in our essential humanity and connect to the deepest levels of support
Peace practices to cultivate clarity and calm
Heart practices to deepen and extend loving-kindness and compassion to others and ourselves
Prayer practices to open to divine guidance and grace
Body practices to anchor the archetypal process of transformation into our physical being
FACULTY:
Rev. Diane Berke
Rev. Diane Berke is the Founder and Spiritual Director of One Spirit. Ordained as an interfaith minister in 1988, she is a widely respected pioneer in developing interfaith/interspiritual ministry education. Diane is on the faculty of Andrew Harvey’s Institute for Sacred Activism, a founding member of The Contemplative Alliance of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, a founding member of Transformation365, and a certified facilitator for the Circle of Trust® work of the Center for Courage and Renewal. She is the author of numerous books and educational manuals, including Love Always Answers, The Gentle Smile, Developing and Deepening Your Spiritual Practice, and Interfaith Ministers’ Service and Reference Manual. A psychotherapist and spiritual counselor for over thirty years, Diane is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of New York. Most important, Diane is widely known and respected for the impact she has on those who study with her. With boundless care, clear intelligence, and deep safety, she creates an extraordinarily rich learning environment. Diane’s students, as well as her clients in private sessions and participants in her workshops and retreats, report experiencing profound acceptance and a deep invitation to the truth that facilitates genuine transformation and healing.
Andrew Harvey
Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer and teacher, and the author of more than 40 books, including the critically acclaimed The Hope; Son of Man, and Savage Grace with Carolyn Baker. Born in south India in 1952, Harvey has devoted much of his life to studying the worlds mystical traditions, including intensive study of Hinduism, Buddhism and Sufi mysticism.