Workshops
Our workshops, available live online or via streamed recordings, are crafted to support seekers of all paths in exploring their inner wisdom, expanding their consciousness, and building a compassionate community. Whether you're looking to enhance your personal practice, develop new skills, or connect with a like-minded community, our offerings provide a welcoming and inclusive space for growth and discovery. Explore our upcoming workshops below and take the next step on your journey with One Spirit.
Upcoming Workshops
The Fire Next Time: Unveiling Baldwin’s Humanism Through Buddhist Concepts
Facilitated by: Rev. Ali’a Edwards
Humanism is the practice wherein we can learn, be, and do care for each other, without which we cannot individually thrive. This workshop bridges the philosophies of Black liberation, Mahayana Buddhism, and humanism, so we can explore how these interconnected belief systems can be applied to create a more just and equitable world.
Mythic Memories: Discovering Your Personal Myths
Facilitated by: Lydia Griffiths
If you want to explore your inner life and understand why you react the way you do, or why you are drawn to certain stories or themes, this workshop will help you learn how to identify connections and themes in your personal myths.
Learn how using characters, mythology, and stories helps you to better understand yourself and the world, and discover how you can trace your path and growth by exploring the stories, characters, and archetypal energy that have resonated with you at different times.
Sacred States of Being: Sleeping, Dreaming and Waking
Facilitated by: Rev. Dr. Ed O’Malley
In one of the oldest forms of Buddhism, Bon Buddhism, formerly "secret" teachings are being offered to Westerners, for several reasons. Bon Buddhist teachers who have come to the West have tried to reach us with teachings more relevant to our lifestyles while retaining the core spiritual essence.
This workshop will explore a specific set of teachings, Dream & Sleep Yoga, that require sustained awareness and spiritual practices, during each of a human's states of being—sleeping, dreaming and waking—to raise your level of awareness and connection to the Divine
Towards a Loving God: Open and Relational Theology
Facilitated by: Rev. Nathan Demay
Instead of learning about how God is all powerful, judgmental, and emotionally broken, this workshop will explore the idea that God is the Most Loving; that all of the Universe, including God and humanity, are in profound interconnected relationship; and how these ideas informs our living in positive ways.
This workshop is a radical re-understanding of our relationship to the Divine. It helps us to move from a place of passivity to activity. We become active partners with the Divine in healing, helping, fighting oppression, caring for the Natural world, etc. It moves us away from “serfs” under an Imperial God, to co-collaborators.
Love, Death, Desire & Madness: Writing into the Sacredness of our Humanity
Facilitated by: Rosemerry Wahtolla Trommer
One of the greatest gifts of poetry is it allows us to explore our humanness with compassion and playfulness, even when the subjects challenge us. Psychologist Michael Brant DeMaria identifies four topics we often shy from meeting openly—love, death, desire and madness—and this four-week workshop series, we’ll circle each of them through reading and writing poetry.
Curiosity will be our guide. How might exploring raw, vulnerable states open us to depth, startle us with wonder, and invite a more profound relationship with the sacred? In each session, we’ll read poems, write poems of our own, discuss process, and have a chance to share the writing we do together—or not. All levels of writing are welcome.
Earth Hospice: Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change with Beauty, Courage, Spirit, and Community
Facilitated by: Trebbe Johnson
The greatest challenge in the world is climate change. We are all in it together. If we don’t have ways of dealing with it in creative, spiritual ways, we will fall into despair. This workshop will encourage participants to create safe, inclusive ways of meeting this immense force and hopefully inspiring countless others in the near and distant future.
Continuing the Sacred Work of Undoing Racism: An Interspiritual Approach
Facilitated by: Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim
This workshop is designed for all who are interested in deepening their understanding of racism and increasing their capacities to heal its inner and outer harms. Together, we will create a container of respect, openness, and compassion to engage in undoing racism as sacred work.
The Art of Conscious Uncoupling: Soul Endings Matter
Facilitated by: Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW
Everything can be used for deeper awakening and conscious uncoupling offers fertile soil for growth and transformation. In this workshop, will explore how to embrace endings as an invitation to the expansion of consciousness.
Spiritual Activism: An Interspiritual Counseling and Companioning Concentration
Facilitated by: Rev. Dr. Khadijah Matin
Very often Spiritual activism is perceived as something we do for others or external to our own identity. In actuality it is how we are living in relationship with our self, family or identify group(s) and community - it is a sustainable path to social transformation. Together, we will use historical texts and group discussion to deepen our appreciation for how each of us can grow spiritually, while considering ways to serve the greater/global community.
Becoming Creatures of Boundless Love
Facilitated by: Rev. Diane Berke
Grow into your spiritual fullness by exploring ways to honor our interconnectedness, cultivate inner transformation, and express your spirituality in service to the world. Together, let us become creatures of boundless love.
The Seasons as a Soul Map
Facilitated by: Lyena Strelkoff
If the Earth is to survive, humans must be compelled to save it. That compulsion arises less from moral or ethical underpinnings than it does from having a genuine, vital, and reciprocal relationship with the Earth. We must shift out of an extractive mindset and toward a consciousness of interdependence, which is a natural result of deepening relationship. This workshop is designed to foster that relationship. When the Earth becomes our teacher, our guide, when our daily lives are interwoven with our natural environment, our care and commitment to the Earth rises profoundly. The workshop promotes that bond for the benefit of us and the Earth.
Attending to the Whole in this Time of Fragmentation
Facilitated by: Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee and David Wallace
Wholeness is not a striving for perfection; it is learning to hold complexity with radical hospitality. We are living in a time of fragmentation. Overwhelm is a natural response to fear and uncertainty. Rather than resist what is arising in us, in this workshop, we will be invited to a radical hospitality towards it all.
Workplace Spirituality: An Interspiritual Counseling and Companioning Concentration
Facilitated by: Rev. Nathan Brisby
We spend the vast majority of our waking lives in the workplace, and yet this is the key space where spirituality is lacking. This workshop examines the variety of ways that are emerging within the workplace to engage with the fullness of the spiritual lives of workers and invites all participants to implement a workplace intervention needed to transform consciousness on the planet.
Esoteric Healing Techniques: Self-Healing with Mental Color Therapy & The Chakras
Facilitated by: Rev. Dr. Diane Rooney
Our bodies are hardwired to heal themselves, so why don’t they? In this workshop we will discover how to heal the self through the application of mental color therapy and other esoteric techniques to the various aspects of the body and its corresponding chakras.
The Soul’s Journey: Death and Afterlife in Kabbalah and Tibetan Buddhism
Facilitated by: Reb Simcha Raphael, Ph.D.
Between this world and the world beyond is a window not a wall. Explore the the ever-changing journey of the soul from birth to death, into the world beyond and reincarnation through the ancient writings of both the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead) and Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism).
Mother Earth Spirituality: An Interspiritual Counseling and Companioning Concentration
Facilitated by: Rev. Dr. Ed O’Malley
How do we create a more personal relationship in an interdependent world? Join us for 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. Meeting Soul in Nature connects you directly to Spirit, forever.
What Is Mine To Do? An Interspiritual Approach to Political Engagement
Facilitated by: Rev. Laurene Williams, Rev. Dr. Melissa Stewart. Rev. Nathan Brisby, and Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee
As spiritual people, we should not avoid the political realities that harm us and those we love. We can no longer use our spirituality to numb ourselves from feeling the real pain of oppression, nor can we use our spirituality to justify turning away from our responsibility to one another. Each of us is valuable and necessary to co-create the world we want, and each of us may have a different role to play. The question then becomes: what is mine to do?
Deep Calls Unto Deep: A Fresh, Poetic, and Embodied Experience of the Psalms
Facilitated by: Rev. Simon Ruth de Voil and David Wallace
The Book of Psalms is a revered sacred text across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The psalms (sacred poems or songs) are cherished for their deep wisdom, beautiful poetry, and their broad exploration of the joys, sorrows, despairs, and longings at the heart of the human condition.
In this experiential workshop with guides Simon de Voil and David Wallace, you will discover and engage fresh translations of the Book of Psalms through music, song, teaching, reflective writing, and contemplative listening, with opportunities for sharing and for spiritual companionship.
Workshop FAQs
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Workshops cost 1 - 2 workshop credits which can be purchased in a discount package, or between $100-$250 à la carte. Explore our workshop packages here.
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All One Spirit workshops are hosted on Hylo - our online community platform. Workshop access will be provided via email after registration is complete. Please check your spam and/or promotions folders for your confirmation email from One Spirit. You will be guided to create a Hylo account, if you don’t already have one.
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Yes! All workshops at One Spirit are recorded, and available for viewing within 72 hours of the live class - no matter how you register.
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You will have access to the workshop recordings and materials on the Hylo community board until June 15th.
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We also welcome proposals for new workshops, from highly-skilled, experienced presenters eager to facilitate transformative events with our community. Explore the possibility of teaching with One Spirit by visiting our Request for Proposals page.
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Seminary · Interspiritual Counseling & Companioning · Thanatology