• Two year, part-time professional training program.
• Classes meet once a month (for either a Saturday or a full weekend), September – June, plus electives and end-of-year residential intensives
• Attending and distance learning programs available.
• Peer and professional staff support through study groups, mentoring program, and Deans.
• Our students are of various ages, nationalities, and vocations, as well as from a wide variety of educational, religious and spiritual backgrounds.

OSIS offers students:

• An understanding of the world’s major wisdom traditions, practices, and rituals
• An opportunity to deepen your own spiritual practice, and learn to help others develop theirs
• Clarity on fundamental psychological principles as they apply to everyday life
• Skills to serve others, formally and informally, as an ordained Interfaith minister in roles such as pastor, spiritual counsellor, or officiant of life-cycle celebrations.
• Enhanced spiritual growth through the exploration of other wisdom traditions
• Renewed commitment to spiritual practice as the foundation for service
• Firsthand experience of spiritual practices from different traditions
• Improved listening skills
• Greater self-acceptance and inner peace
• Understanding of the individual and cultural differences that make each of us unique