A Grief Like No Other: Serving People Grieving the Violent Death of Someone They Love with Kathleen O’Hara
Saturday, January 28 - 9:30am-5pm
$99 (no up-charge)
1 Elective Credit - Distance Learning Available
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When someone loses a loved one to violence their grief is different. We want to serve them but don’t know what to do or say. We have difficulty processing our own response to the death and can be ineffective at a time when we are most needed. This workshop will help you serve people who have lost a loved one to a violent or sudden death: homicide, suicide, drug overdose, war, terrorism, vehicular manslaughter, natural disaster or any sudden event. You will learn about traumatic grief in the first five years and the involvement of the criminal justice system. We will explore your personal responses to these kinds of death and how to deal with your feelings. You will learn what survivors need and how to serve them—and what not to do. We will also explore how to create meaningful rituals and services for this kind of death so you can help people honor their loved ones.

Kathleen O’Hara, MA is a psychotherapist, international keynote speaker, workshop and retreat provider, policy and program developer and author of A Grief Like No Other, surviving the violent death of someone you love. She has worked extensively in the field of traumatic grief and victims’ rights advocacy in the US, Canada and the UK. She writes a daily blog for the bereaved called In the Name of the Fire at www.inthenameofthefire.wordpress.com.

Please visit her website www.kathleenohara.com for more information.

Annual Holiday Community Gathering and Open House
Friday, December 9, 2011
Open House from 5:00 - 9:00 pm
RSVP: http://2011osisholiday.eventbrite.com/



Time to socialize, munch on yummy snacks, fulfill some of your holiday gift giving needs at our silent auction or bookstore and time to pray together. Please bring your favorite Hors d’oeurve, Non-Alcoholic Beverage or Desserts to share with community.

Join us from 7:00-7:45pm to offer prayers for the world.

Support our Silent Auction - including a Peter Max signed lithograph to an autographed baseball signed by Boston Red Socks Pitcher Josh Beckett

Support a Cause - Once again, One Spirit has teamed up the Project Find as our holiday giving project. Our holiday project is to help provide clean clothing for homeless seniors. One Spirit is collecting new packaged underwear to be donated to Project Find. Men’s undergarments are especially needed.

Seva Opportunity - We need volunteers. If you have time to be of service on Dec 9th, please contact Lisa Mollusky at admissions@onespiritinterfaith.org or 212.931.6840 X51 to volunteer for one of the party committees: Set Up, Break Down, Decorating, Food Committees, Auction.

What is the Bible? Unearthing the Authentic Teachings for Spiritual Growth with Rev. Jane Galloway, PhD
November 10 & 17; December 1 & 8; 7-9PM
Registration $99 - Elective Credits: 1
Available via Audiobook Download
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The Bible is not one book. It is a collection of wisdom texts from may different eras. Because of the many ways in which this collection has been misunderstood and used as a battering ram and not a wisdom text, many have discarded any deeper understanding of the Book. This misunderstanding is deeply unfortunate, and for anyone preparing for ministry of any kind it represents an area in which the mythic sub text of much of the world is not understood. This class will look at what the book is and what it is not, give you tools to delve into the deeper secrets contained within the wisdom text, and help you to understand the public and religious health codes, letters of many seekers and apocryphal books.

Rev. Dr. Jane Galloway, Spiritual Director, Sacred Center New York, is passionate about healing the communities around her. Her vision for Sacred Center, indeed the world at large, is one of collaboration and connection. She believes that by cultivating an atmosphere of open and authentic conversation we move toward oneness.

UZAZU: Mind-Body Breakthrough Series

Mondays: Jan 9 & 23, Feb 13 & 27, Mar 12 & 26, Apr 9 & 23, May 14 & 28, Jun 11 & 25; 7:30-9:30PM
$15 suggested donation (Free for OSLA Students)


UZAZU's unique Change Facilitation Process gives you simple, powerful process that allows you to access the eight essential modes, or aspects, of facilitating deep, integrated, sustainable change with yourself and others. By tapping into the full synergy between mind and body, you'll experience which of these modes, or relational patterns, you are already using well and which you may be only scratching the surface of, or perhaps avoiding altogether!

This key sequence of eight distinct 'energy patterns' allows you to to gently and deeply sense into inner conflict and tensions and quickly transform them into powerful insights, deep resolution, and positive energy. This powerful, simple process is something that you can easily take away with you and apply to any tensions or conflicts you have! UZAZU is a transformational modality that gives you the tools you need to unlock the enormous potential of your body-mind connection. It is a language that ‘speaks’ without words. UZAZU has been born of embodied experience and extensive collaborative discovery. It integrates many spiritual, psychological, philosophical and movement disciplines, both ancient and modern, into a truly 21st Century transformational practice.

Please wear comfortable clothing and come a few minutes early. For more information on UZAZU, see www.uzazu.org. For videos teaching you the basics of UZAZU for free, go to: www.online.uzazu.org.