State-of-the-Art Videoconference Learning 2020-2021 WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES 1spirit.org Welcome to the 2020 - 2021 year of education at One Spirit Learning Alliance. As a leader in interspiritual education, One Spirit has an organization-wide commitment to personal, professional, spiritual, and educational development. Workshops and classes are broadcast live via a well-developed distance-learning experience. For those who cannot attend at the time classes take place, we offer recordings of most of our classes. Attendance options are noted along with the schedule for each class throughout this catalog. Many Paths, One Spirit. 1 Special Offer: 3-Credit Package To encourage you to take a deep dive into classes, we are offering a reduced rate of $265 ($235 for One Spirit graduates) if you choose a 3-credit package. We believe that this option will give you the opportunity to broaden your experience by exploring a variety of classes. To register for a package or for individual classes, visit our website at www.1spirit.org and click “Workshops & Events” at the top of the page. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Animals, the Planet, and Us: Creating Spiritual Connections for Thriving ....................... 4 Sacred Activism: A Path of Radical Transformation .......................................................6 Receiving the Blessings of Grace ................................................................................... 8 Contemporary Wicca: Ancestral Wisdom for Modern Times ..........................................10 Dreams as Portals to the Sacred ................................................................................. 12 Walking on the Path of Mary Magdalene .................................................................... 14 Conscious Communication: Intentional Connection With Self, Spirit, and Other .... ....... 16 Internal Alchemy: Self-Healing Through Taoist Principles .......................................... 18 The Shaman’s Mind: Huna Wisdom to Change Your Life ... ........................................... 20 Connection Matters: Creating Experiential Workshops .............. .................................. 22 Soul Nourishment: Our Presence and Purpose ............................................................ 24 Living Love: The Transformational Power of Heart-Centered Practice ......................... 26 Self-Care for Leaders Rooted in Social Justice: A Political Endeavor .......................... 28 Spiritual Growth and the Enneagram: Nine Deep Soul Meditations .............................30 Staying Human in Inhuman Times: Essential Practices for Sacred Activists ................. 32 Mindful Matters: Cultivating Presence in a Chaotic World ........................................... 34 Start Spreading the News: Joyfully Publicizing and Marketing Your Ministry ............... 36 Sikhism: Demystifying the World’s Fifth-Largest Religion ............................................ 38 Five Stages of Spiritual Evolution: A Bhagavad-Gita Exploration ................................ 40 Creating Portable Altars ............................................................................................. 42 Monthly One Spirit Shamanic Circle ........................................................................... 44 2020 - 2021 Workshop Calendar ................................................................................ 46 3 ANIMALS, THE PLANET, AND US: Creating Spiritual Connections for Thriving with Sarah Bowen Saturday, October 3, 2020 9:30 am - 5:00 pm ET Videoconference | Recording General Public: $100 | One Spirit Graduates: $90 | One Spirit Elective Credit: 1 Most of us do not journey alone. Approximately 57% of households in the world include at least one animal family member, and in the United States, that number is approximately 68%. Our actions affect our pets, and they affect us. How can we strengthen the bond? How do we prepare for the joy of a new animal companion, the confusion of messy health decisions, and the devastation of death or loss? Beyond home, how do we extend compassion to the 8.7 million other species we share this interdependent planet with? As animal lovers, what does our sacred activism look like on behalf of those without a human voice? In this workshop, animal chaplain Sarah Bowen will give you the opportunity to • Dig into what spiritual traditions teach about animals • Explore your relationship with nonhuman beings • Understand how theoethics impacts all beings and our planet • Try interspecies spiritual practices that can strengthen the human/animal bond and bring healing benefits to both • Learn about the field of animal chaplaincy • Receive resources for working with animal adoption, illness, loss, grief, and advocacy • Discover how to extend your professional practice/volunteer work/sacred activism/ministry beyond the two-leggeds Rev. Sarah Bowen has a special interest in the intersection of spiritual values with animal welfare and is a fierce advocate for all creatures. As an animal chaplain, she teaches interspecies mindfulness practices, works with humans around grief/loss of companion animals, loves up animals in shelters, and provides wildlife struck by cars a “sacred sendoff.” Her writing on animal/human relationships has been featured in Spirituality & Health magazine, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and Elephant Journal, and on a wide range of podcasts from The Doggy Diva Show to Vegan Spirituality. She is a member of the Association for Pet Loss & Bereavement, is an interfaith/interspiritual minister, and is author of two books on modern spirituality. 4 5 SACRED ACTIVISM: A Path of Radical Transformation with Chelsea MacMillan Tuesdays, October 20, 27 and November 10, 17, 2020 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET Videoconference | Recording General Public: $100 | One Spirit Graduates: $90 | One Spirit Elective Credit: 1 The world is at a tipping point, with climate breakdown, political and economic turmoil, and stubborn narratives of dominance and separation. It seems nearly impossible for humanity to keep living as it has. What the world needs now are people who are fully awake to the crisis we face on this planet and are following their unique callings to live in service to a hurting world. It needs people who are done with false hope and are willing and ready to bring themselves wholly to a path of radical personal and collective transformation. The world needs sacred activists. Discover and deepen your vocation and gain concrete tools for greater impact in the world through contemplative practice, self-inquiry, analysis of social movements, community building, and more. Together, we will learn • How to cultivate resilience in order to navigate this tremendous shift in human consciousness • A framework of sacred activism that is integrative and holistic • How to listen to our individual and collective callings and move into transformative action Rev. Chelsea MacMillan is a spiritual director, writer, facilitator, and climate organizer with Extinction Rebellion NYC. She’s cofounder of Brooklyn Center for Sacred Activism, cohost of The Rising: Spirituality for Revolution podcast, and her writing has appeared in Anchor magazine, the book Anatomy of Silence, and Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action, a compilation of essays by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Listug. 6 7 8 RECEIVING THE BLESSINGS OF GRACE with Miranda Macpherson Monday, November 9, Wednesday, November 11, Thursday, November 12, and Friday, November 13, 2020 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET Videoconference | Recording General Public: $225 | One Spirit Graduates: $180 | One Spirit Elective Credits: 2 In these challenging times there is great need to open to the subtle but substantial forces that are always available to help you stay calm amidst the chaos, regenerate deeply and let your noble qualities shine forth to help, heal and serve. Wherever you are on the path, whatever your life situation, there is Grace to support you, fill you from within, transform your suffering into wisdom and guide you into compassionate right action. Join Miranda Macpherson for this potent yet nourishing retreat where she will usher you into the receptive state of Grace through the practice of Ego Relaxation. Enjoy rich teachings, meditations and inquiry practices to cultivate deep Trust, Humility, Patience and Joy to powerfully elevate your consciousness and radiate this Grace to support your loved ones and community Together we will: • Recognize and receive the loving goodness that is always accompanying you through life • Enter the celestial state of Grace through befriending the unknown • Receive the gifts that arrive from beyond your ego’s effort • Access Joy independent of external conditions • Open to new depths of awareness and possibility • Radiate your love, trust and peace to support others Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher, feminine mystic, and author of The Way of Grace: The Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation, Boundless Love, and Meditations on Boundless Love. In her twenties, Miranda founded the OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation in London, where over a decade as spiritual director she trained and ordained over 600 ministers. Today she leads the Living Grace sangha in Northern California and holds retreats internationally. Miranda’s teachings and transmission offers a holistic approach to spiritual surrender and nondual realization based on a practice she calls Ego Relaxation. She draws from extensive study of the world wisdom traditions and over 30 years