Sacred Earth Forum: How Can Spirituality Empower the Environmental Movement? A Conversation with: Rabbi Michael Lerner & Chief Rueben George, facilitated by Anjali Appadurai. With invited respondents from leading environmental and spiritual organizations: Sukhvinder Vinning, Ben West, Christine Boyle and Louise Mangan. Join Rabbi Michael Lerner and Chief Rueben George for a thought-provoking and action […]
Living out Reconciliation
Next week the Truth and Reconciliation Commission comes to Vancouver, for four days of truth-telling about this histories of abuse, colonization, struggle and resilience on this land. And it could not be more important. Not only is the history of Indian Residential Schools an atrocity that deserves retelling within our collective historic memory. But the […]
Faith and Social Movements VIDEO
On May 23rd, we gathered a wise and diverse room of people to discuss the role of faith in social movements. It was a lively evening. For more on the details of the conversation and the panelist bios, click here. If you missed it, or you just want to re-live it, the video link is […]
Climate Divestment & Moral Calls to Action
This Thursday, May 23rd, Spirited Social Change is co-hosting a dialogue in Vancouver on the question of whether Faith has a role in Social Movements. I just finished reading a book on The Rebellious Life of Ms. Rosa Parks, and it’s clear to me that faith has played an important role in past movements. In […]
Faith and Social Movements
Amid increasing secularization and social dislocation, what does it look like to build relationships between religious and secular movements in order to re-ignite a non-partisan, politics of meaning for the common good? Join Hilary Henegar, Shadae Johnson, Meharoona Ghani, Kai Nagata, and more (bios coming soon), as we discuss the contemporary role of faith in […]
The Stories the Body Tells
“There are things you do because they feel right, and they make no sense, and they make no money, and it may be the real reason we are here; to love each other, and to eat each others cooking and say it was good.” Brian Andreas I’ve been thinking about the body a lot this […]
The Privilege of Yoga
Friday, April 26th, 7-9pm Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway: Join us as we talk about: Who gets to practice yoga? What does it mean to be queer practising yoga? To be a person of colour? To be a feminist? To be poor? Is yoga gendered? Are all bodies truly welcome in yoga? What does it […]
Better Self-Care in 2013? Join the Self-Care Project!
THE SELF CARE PROJECT Healthy habits. Less burnout. More (social)change. You care about the world. A lot. Ironically, this can mean that your own wellbeing can end up at the bottom of the list of people, issues and campaigns that matter so deeply. Enter… The Self Care Project. It’s a simple experiment in helping you […]
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