Community
Events
One Spirit is a vibrant and growing spiritual community comprised of students and graduates of our seminary, spiritual counseling certification, and other programs.
Members of the general public are also welcome and invited. We offer a rich variety of community events and programs free or on a donation basis to provide opportunities to come together for spiritual conversation, practice, learning, exploration, and service.
These include our weekly Gatherings, One Spirit in Action events focused on social justice issues and sacred activism, daily and weekly meditation groups, monthly ecstatic dance gatherings, daily sacred readings, and more.
Learn about our affinity groups, or see our upcoming events below.
Begin and close your day with Spiritual Nourishment
One Spirit offers 2 FREE Live Meditations!
One Spirit Ministers of Color Sacred Circle
One Spirit Ministers of Color Sacred Circle meets every 4th Friday of the month, and is open to graduates and current students that identify as melanated people.
The ARC of Love
Please join One Spirit in Action in a deeper conversation about Women & Mass Incarceration and the challenges they face when re-entering and integrating back into community.
Facilitated by: Rev. Laurene Williams.
One Spirit Seminary Intro Session
Get to know One Spirit Seminary while getting a taste of what it's like to study with us!
This is a free event!
Experience Ecstatic Dance
Meeting every 3rd Friday, join us for an evening of play through dance. Let yourself be moved by the music.
Interspiritual Companioning & Counseling Intro Session
Please join us for what is sure to be an engaging, thoughtful, spirit-filled evening in community. We'll engage in sharing and practice while learning more about ISCC and its facilitators!
One Spirit in Recovery
Meeting every 3rd Tuesday of the Month
Open to current One Spirit students and alumni in recovery
OSLA Alt Faith Collective
Facilitated by Rev. Dr. Deb Berman
This private monthly online forum provides a warm and affirming spiritual safe haven for OSLA's Altfolk to be together, engage in sacred connection, and receive support in nourishing our unique and divinely created Alt souls.
Antiracist Spirituality Circle
Continuing the work we began in Been in the Struggle. Join us for a monthly Antiracism Spirituality Circle meeting the first Thursday of the month.
Art of Dying Thanatology INFO SESSION RECAP
The Art of Dying Institute is now open for registration until February 25th! Learn more about this 5-Month Certificate Program and register today.
One Spirit’s Holiday Gathering
One Spirit’s Holiday Gathering & Interfaith Worship Service
led by members of One Spirit in Action
Join us for a warm, welcoming evening where we worship and enjoy time together.
One Spirit In Action Turns 10! We Were Made for These Times, Part 2
Please join One Spirit in Action in celebrating 10 years of sacred service and activism as we take a deeper dive into cultivating peace and compassion within ourselves and our world.
Facilitated by: Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim, and Rev. Laurene Williams.
We Were Made for These Times, Part 1: Joining in Consciousness for Compassion and Peace
Please join with us in community and spiritual practice to ground ourselves in our shared humanity and offer the power of our consciousness in service to compassion and peace.
Facilitated by: Rev. Diane Berke, Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim, and Rev. Laurene Williams.
Soulful Conversations: Honoring, Remembering, Re-Collecting
Facilitated by Rev. Rachel Hollander
In honor of All Saints Day and Dia De Los Muertos, we will take some time together to Honor and Remember those we’ve known who have gone on to their next adventure.
Thanatology INFO SESSION
The Art of Dying Institute is now open for registration! Join us for an INFO SESSION to learn more about this 5-Month Certificate Program.
Soulful Conversations
Facilitated by Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee
Our intention this evening will be to begin finding our own pathways into this space of the clear bead, so we may return to it often, and allow it to point our feet toward our next steps in life.
Soulful Conversations: "Taking Care of Our Own”
Facilitated by Rev. Ali’a B. Edwards
In this conversation, we will explore the Buddhist Humanist approach to caring for each other as neighbors in society. With gentle consideration, we will examine simple approaches to our way of life based on the standard of “inherent belonging.”
Soulful Conversations: “Dreamwork: A Window to the Soul”
Facilitated by Rabbi Haviva Ner-David and Rev. Tammy Theis Satterlee
Have you wondered what your dream images are trying to tell you? Join dreamworkers Tammy and Haviva to listen to the messages your soul is sending you while you sleep.
Soulful Conversations: "Opening the Compassionate Heart with the 5 Spirits of our Body"
Facilitated by Rev. Dr. Diane Rooney
Ancient Chinese philosophy teaches us that we have 5 guardians or spirits within our body. An awareness of this can help us stoke our heartfelt compassion towards others and ourselves. Let us experience and discuss these spirits and feel the compassion they bring to us. This soulful conversation will help us understand their messages and how to turn it outward as an act of compassion to all beings.
One Spirit in Action Presents: “Re-Membering our Forgotten Community" PART IV
Join One Spirit in Action for Part IV with The Compassion Prison Project to view and discuss their two powerful documentaries called Step Into The Circle and The Honor Yard.
Soulful Conversation: “Chakra Intuition”
Facilitated by Dr. Susan Corso
Everyone is intuitive. Everyone. Without exception. chakra expert Dr. Susan Corso will lead today’s soulful conversation based on the sixth chakra, the intuitive one. Begin to honor the depth of your own intuitive knowing …
Soulful Conversations: “Honoring Animal Spirituality:How can we more deeply support the more-than-human world”
Facilitated by Rev. Sarah Bowen and Rev. Diane Berke
Drawing from the work of Jane Goodall and neuroscientists, ethologists, and animal theologians, we’ll explore the probability that animals experience spirituality.
One Spirit Dream Circle: 3rd Sunday of Month
Meeting every 3rd Sunday of the month, this brave space will enable you to delve into the stories being revealed to us from our Dreammaker.
Soulful Conversations: “Being Called by the Christ – An Invitation to a Morning Meal”
Facilitated by Rev. Martha Doran
Experience how humility can be a gateway to hearing what Divine Love is giving us. Spend an hour listening, with humble ears, to how you are being called by the eternal Christ.
Soulful Conversation: “Rest as a Portal to Healing and Liberation”
Facilitated by Cat Greenstreet, M.Ed
In our Soul Conversation, we will explore passages from the book Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey,, reflect in solitude, share in small groups and then in the larger group about how we rest and how we might find our way to slow down, rest more, dream more, imagine, and resist grind culture even (or especially) when it feels impossible.
Soulful Conversations: “Wisdom of Fire”
Facilitated by: Rev. Julie Brooks and Rev. Claudia Kohn
Welcome to our Soulful Conversation, “Wisdom of Fire.” As one of Earth’s four elements, fire has long fascinated humans. Join us for an evening of contemplation and consideration of how fire shows up for you!
Soulful Conversations: “Here Be Dragons: What medieval maps may teach us about our limited god-image”
Facilitated by: Rev. Darby Christopher and Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee
In this sacred conversation, we will create a safe container where we can lean into images that, for us, feel as "not god." Our hope is to offer tools for what might become a lifelong practice of intentionally developing a more expansive and nuanced map of what is holy ground, so we are able to take up our rightful space in the world.
Soulful Conversations: “Thankful Thursdays”
Join Rev. Theresa Circi for a Soulful Conversation themed around “Thankful Thursdays”, an opportunity to feel and express gratitude allowing participants to bask in the high vibration of gratitude and realize we can always find something, if not many things, to be grateful for.
Soulful Conversations: “The Long and Lazy River to Your Soul; A winter night’s reverie in the company of friends”
While the winter nights call our attention to the deeper parts of spiritual practice, please join Rev. Karyn O’Beirne in an evening of music, reflection and sharing what most wants to be heard within you.
Soulful Conversations: “The Shortest Shortcut to Happiness: Welcome 2023 with Gratitude Practice”
Therapist Barry Neil Kaufman, in his book Happiness Is a Choice, describes gratitude as "the shortest shortcut to happiness." Please join Rev. Diane Berke for an evening of poetry, music, reflection, and sharing as we welcome 2023 through practicing gratitude together.
The Gathering: “Divine Metaphors”
Facilitated by Rev. Dr. Rob Spencer
Come gather to explore eye-opening (and “I” opening) metaphors of the Divine. What words can we use to describe the indescribable? Take a leap of faith and fancy as we soar off the cliff together to discern and share our own Metaphors—before landing safely by the end of the hour.
Peace Corps: InternationalVolunteer Day
Join our panelist as they share how Peace Corps service continued their commitment to community organizing and volunteering. Ask questions and gain tips to guide you through the application process.
The Gathering: “Spirit & Song”
With Rev. Simon Ruth de Voil
Join Rev. Simon Ruth de Voil on the first Thursday of each month for an evening of music and prayer in the spirit. Chant and sing prayers, or simply listen deeply into these musical prayers for peace and healing. The evening will also include time for personal reflection and shared prayer for healing and wholeness.
The Gathering: “When the Wild God Arrives”
Facilitated by Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, and Rev. Darby Christopher
Join us for an exploration of the Wild God. Participants are invited to lean into their own edge of tolerance for the chaotic. As we allow our boundaries to be pushed in just the right amount, we create space for more instinctual energy in our lives.
“Parole Injustice: The Interview Screening & Live Discussion” presented by One Spirit in Action and Transforming Lives
Transforming Lives is partnering with One Spirit in Action for a film screening and discussion of The Interview. For mature viewers only, this film offers shocking insights into the injustices of the New York Parole System. Please join us!
The Gathering “Come What May: Staying Human in Inhuman Times”
Join Rev. Diane Berke, Founder and Spiritual Director of One Spirit, for a time of music, poetry, and sharing as we explore what it means to preserve and maintain our humanity in these challenging and troubling times.