Join us for an exploration of socially engaged spiritual practice. We need social engagement informed by the sacredness and interconnectedness of all life now more than ever, as we face the destruction of our ecosystems and ongoing injustice.

 

Whether your practices include meditation, ceremony, mindful movement, prayer, poetry or other forms, they all contribute a wisdom foundation to wise activism.

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We can learn from spiritually informed movements such as the Kingian/spiritual nonviolence of the Civil Rights movement, Gandhi's nonviolent satyagraha movement to end British Colonialism in India, the Water Protectors defending the sacred with prayer and nonviolence at Standing Rock, and the emerging movement within Buddhism of the engaged Bodhisattva or Ecosattva. 

 

Whatever your spiritual path or practice, and even if you don’t have one, you are welcome. We’ll spend some time practicing together, build our capacity for moral courage and nonviolent action without certainty of the fruits of our actions, and with humility and compassion for those we may not understand or even know. Let me know if you'd like to share a practice from your path.