Companioning the Inner Spiritual Activist:
Put your heart into action.
Applied Interspiritual Companioning
Companioning the Inner Spiritual Activist
Spiritual Activism provides the sustainable opportunity for anyone to align their beliefs with their abilities to help create a more equitable and transformative society and environment.
It is a way to fulfill the spiritual teachings of being stewards of the earth and all of its inhabitants. As a spiritual activist one is putting their heart into action.
In this concentration, participants will explore the history, diverse concepts, and practical applications of Spiritual Activism. In this journey, we will see differences in form. We will examine the origins of spiritual activism, the relationship with varied forms of faith and spirituality, and how it has evolved since the late 19th century to the present. Exploration will include opportunities to practice or explore varied spiritual practices; theories of womanist and spiritual and social justice activism. The goal will be to have more clarity about both personal and social transformation, as well as the connections to spirit.
In exploring more of self, participants will explore the art of interspiritual companioning/ counseling and consider how spiritual activism will contribute to social transformation models—whether through a personal context, 1:1 companioning/ counseling, or working in group settings. As an end product, each participant will develop their purpose statement as a means to create clarity and charge their scope of spiritual activism.
Through live sessions and eLearning
modules, students will:
Explore through a multicultural lens the history, diverse concepts, definitions, and practical application of Spiritual Activism
Examine the relationship with standard forms of faith and spirituality, and how spiritual activism has evolved from the late 19th century through to the present.
Delve into the art of Interspiritual companioning/counseling through this lens and consider how spiritual activism will contribute to societal transformation, whether through a personal context, 1:1 companion/counseling, or working in group settings.
This Intensive will explore the following topics:
Seeing Spirit in Social Transformation
Foundations: Grounding Ourselves: History and Our-Story
Spiritual Activism: Common Understanding;
Sacred Readings; Definitions
Obligation of Social Justice and Sacred Activism
Pre-requisites for the SA – Self- care; Ethics
Spiritual Activism: Wading through difference
Entering in Coalitions; Companioning; Alliances
Spiritual Activism: Examples of Form
Womanist Theories; Sacred Activism; Social Justice
Spiritual Activism: Companioning the Emotions
Finding Purpose; Self-care
Spiritual Activism: Perception and Balance of Real-life Issues
Isolation: Staying connected to Spirit; Clarifying the “why” of the work
Spiritual Activism: Purpose Statement: Now you can begin!
Remembering the Self and Companion
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling. ”
— bell hooks
Facilitator
Rev. Dr. Khadijah Matin
Rev. Dr. Khadijah Matin has established a solid record of commitment to education and faith-based organizations, serving in multiple leadership roles. Building upon her interests in her family history and social justice work, Khadijah’s work looks at the role family and faith history plays as identity and transformation models. Along with her experience in nonprofit governance, and in recognition of her works in intercultural dialogue and civic engagement she was appointed as an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow. Khadijah has an MS from Fordham University; certificates from One Spirit Seminary (2006); ISC Program (2010). She earned her D.Min. In 2012, from New York Theological Seminary, in Multi-faith ministry. Always inspired by her children, Khadijah is called by some as a “woman who walks through walls” and calling as a continuation of her family’s traditions, fulfilling the social justice dreams of her ancestors.