One Spirit Workshops in Essential Spirituality

08-821 Eco-Spirituality and Action:
A Cosmology and Program for the 21st Century
With Angela Manno

Friday, April 24th, 6:30pm to 9pm,
Saturday and Sunday, April 25 & 26, 10am to 5pm
$180 Public, $165 OSLA Students and Alumni
OSIS Credit Value: 2
Distance Learning Not Available

In this era of climate change, resource depletion and increasing violence towards nature, what is the new understanding of humanity’s place and role in the unfolding of creation that can help us help us engage creatively in this unprecedented period of crisis and opportunity? What are the principles and practices of this new awareness? As people committed to a spiritual life in the modern world, what are our special strengths and unique opportunities to fully participate in this crucial turning point in history?

This workshop explores the emerging global spirituality -- an eco-spirituality -- that has exciting implications for those who wish to merge their spirituality and activism and ministers of all faiths. Through reading, guided meditation, worship sharing (a Quaker tradition) and other didactic and experiential methods we will gain a new sense of our identity within the cosmos and the Earth Community, and our opportunity to make a unique and lasting impact in the healing of the Earth.

Angela Manno is an educator, writer, visual artist and attender at the 15th St. Friends (Quaker) Meeting in New York City. She has been actively exploring the “pattern that connects” personal and planetary healing for over 20 years. Her art and teaching is dedicated to the vision of humanity and the Earth living as one and “the Earth restored to her pristine Beauty and full regenerative capacities.”