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, activism, and ministries. 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, and internationally-exhibited artist who has been exploring the pattern that connects personal and planetary healing for over 20 years. A graduate of the School of the Spirit Quaker Ministry on Being a Spiritual Nurturer, she is the founder and director of the School of Living Arts for Creativity and Ecological Culture in Northern Columbia County, New York. Angela studied Earth Literacy at Genesis Farm and brings her many years of teaching the creative process as applied to daily life to the crucial work of Earth restoration. 

Angela's art and teaching are dedicated to the vision of humanity and the Earth living as one, and "the Earth restored to her pristine Beauty and full regenerative capacities." Eco-theologian Thomas Berry has said of her, "Angela Manno has contributed to the Great Work in an astonishing variety of ways: her art, her Quaker faith, her activism against nuclear power, her teaching. All resonate with the message of human-Earth relations so transformed that Earth community is again a realizable goal."

Angela is currently working on a book, Planetary Perspectives, containing interviews and essays by founders of the sustainability movement such as Thomas Berry, practical ecologist Ann Edey, and the late Leon Shenandoah, Firekeeper of the Iroquois Nation. Her art work can be seen at www.angelamanno.com.