Here's a list of some upcoming online and Rogue Valley in-person, eco-spiritual activities that may be of interest to you. Check back, as this post will be updated during April as we get additional information, and a new calendar listing will come out in May, 2025. Don't be intimidated by the scope of this list; choose to participate in just what calls to you.
April 2, 2025 - The SOCAN course Living with Climate Change: Rogue Valley, (formerly known as Master Climate Protector), will start April 2nd and run for the second year as an Southern Oregon University course in the Environmental Science, Policy and Sustainability Department where students can take the course to earn three credits, and community members can take it to learn more about climate science. Students sign up for the course ES 131: Living with Climate Change: Rogue Valley through the regular sign-up procedures (CRN 6405). Apply for SOU admissions here. Note: your admission decision will take between two and three weeks.
Community members interested in taking the course should sign up using SOCAN’s Registration form online at socan.eco/lwcc-registration. Contact SOCAN cofacilitator Kathy Conway (kathy@socan.eco) with questions. Anyone interested can visit the course website at https://socan.eco/lwcc/ . The course runs for ten weeks through SOU’s Spring term beginning April 2n and ending June 5th, meeting once a week on Wednesdays from 5:30 – 8:20 in the Science Building Room 066.
April 2, 2025, at 6 p.m. PDT - Ashland Climate Collaborative is having an event to kick off Earth Month at the Ashland Co-op Community Classroom, 300 N. Pioneer, Ashland, OR to "bring people together who want to do what they can about climate pollution right here at home. Come be with like-minded folks, while our volunteers share ways to reduce climate pollution while living with drought, smoke, and wildfire risk. Register here.
April 3, 2025, at 1 p.m. PDT - Creation Spirituality Communities presents a First Thursday webinar with Carol Kilby and Stephan Martin leading a discussion of the themes of their forthcoming book, Becoming the Change: Evolutionary Rituals and Practices for Everyday Emergence, offering profound insights and practical demonstrations into how we can celebrate the new sacred story of the Universe in a new form of ritual practices." On rotating months, the First Thursdays time slot will include Global Kinship, Kosmic Vespers and something entirely new: Global Dreaming hosted by Robyn Hubbard. Register here.
April 7, 2025 - The Becoming ProSocial course (starting April 7, 2025 for seven weeks) "is designed to help you make effective changes with empathy while building trust-driven teams that: ✔ Listen before reacting✔ Collaborate instead of compete✔ Solve challenges with shared purpose and mutual respect. Compassionate changemaking is more important than ever when the world feels increasingly divided, uncertain, and tense. Whether you’re working a team, an organization, or a small community group, you have the power to bring people together instead of pushing them apart. You don’t need a title to be a changemaker—you just need the willingness to create a more connected world. The world needs more bridge-builders. Are you ready to be one? Join ProSocial today and start making a difference.
April 9, 2025, at 10 a.m. PDT - Institute for the Future presents: Foresight Talks: How AI Can Augment Foresight Leaders. Toshi Hoo, Director of IFTF’s Emerging Media Lab, will discuss AI’s impact on foresight practices with Bob Johansen, Jeremy Kirshbaum, and Gabe Cervantes, co-authors of Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Skills to Humanize Leadership with Generative AI. Register here.
April 10, 2025, at 4 p.m. PDT - Center for Christogenesis is presenting a webinar with Professor of Philosophy Dan Dombrowski on Process Mystycism. "The purpose of the presentation is to explore both senses of what it means to be a mystic from the perspectives of several process philosophers or neoclassical theists, including Alfred North Whitehead, Henri Bergson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and especially Charles Hartshorne.' More information and registration here.
April 17, 2025 - U-School invites you to attend six interactive sessions beginning April 17th: The Presencing Series: Sensing and Actualizing the Future That Needs Us. This coincides with the release of Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaeufer's new book, Presencing: 7 Practices for Transforming Self, Society, and Business. You are invited to join for one, several, or all sessions. Register here. The six-part series includes:
April 17: 7 Practices for Transforming Self, Society, and Business
May 1: Regenerating Planetary and Social Soil
May 15: Education For Human & Planetary Flourishing
May 29: Transforming Business and Money to be a Force for Good
June 12: Presencing the Future of Governance and Democracy
June 26: Activating Islands of Coherence
April 25, 2025, from 3:30-7:00 p.m. - Earth Day at SOU at the Farm. join Southern Oregon University and community partners for exhibits, live performances, bike rodeo, art, food trucks, and more, all in celebration of Earth Day!
April 26, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. PT - At the Annual UCC Earth Summit the keynote lecture will be delivered by Katharine Hayhoe, one of the world’s leading climate scientists and the author of popular books such as Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World and A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions. Through television appearances on PBS and Showtime as well as her widely viewed TED Talks, Hayhoe has reached a broad audience with a compelling perspective on science, climate, and faith. This two-and half-hour summit will additionally feature a panel discussion entitled “Climate Justice in a Toxic World.” Three grassroots leaders in the struggle against environmental racism in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will speak on this panel: Dr. Marsha Jackson from Southern Sector Rising, Caleb Roberts from Downwinders at Risk, and Emmanual Davis from Justice for Joppa. Register here.
May 2-4, 2025 - Center for Christogenesis’ upcoming annual conference, Rethinking Religion in an Age of Science: From Institution to Evolution. This virtual event will explore "how a renewed understanding of religion can invigorate planetary life and human evolution in our age of technology." Speakers will include Bayo Akomolafe, Diana Butler Bass, Ilia Delio, John Haught, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, and Thomas Jay Oord. More information here.
May 8-10, 2025 - Humanity's Team is having an in person and livestreamed event: Sacred Awakening Live offering a "3-day immersion where science meets spirituality, and you become the catalyst for global transformation. This event will awaken your confidence to create ripples of change—starting within and radiating outward." Guest speakers include: Steve Farrell, Stephanie James, Gregg Braden, Suzanne Giesemann, Michael Beckwith, Neale Donald Walsch, Karen Noé, Debra Poneman, Anita Sanchez, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, SIMRAN, Lisa Campion, Cynthia James, Jonathan and Andi Goldman and many more. Livestream tickets are $199 and more information here.
May 20, 2026-June 24, 2025 (six Tuesdays from 4-5:30 PT) -Deeptime Network presents The Worldview of Thomas Berry with Sam King. More information and registration here.
May 28–June 2, 2025 - The Haden Institute is having their 2025 Summer Dream & Spirituality Conference: Sacred Cosmos, Sacred Soul in Asheville, NC and virtually. Apply here.
This Conference will offer “a new framework for thinking about God, religion, and spirituality in an age of quantum physics and evolution – one that transcends the obstacles of dogmas in religious traditions. Ilia Delio, author of The Not-Yet God, offers a way forward for a vision of God and the Cosmos that is deeply satisfying for both the mind and the heart. She engages the insights of Carl Jung, the Jesuit scientist-theologian Teilhard de Chardin, and process thinkers.”
“At the 2025 Haden Summer Dream and Spirituality Conference, we will explore the insights of Jung’s analytical psychology, modern science, and ancient mysticism. Dream work, contemplative practices, rituals, and creative embodiment will ground these insights into a personal and practical spirituality of love and connection to the whole of the Cosmos.”
May 31, 2025, from 9-11 a.m. PDT - The American Teilhard Association (ATA) is having their Annual Event and Retreat 2025, featuring Dr. Catherine Keller on Zoom: Eco-apocalypse and the Unfinished Universe: Teilhard's Evolutionary Hope. Register here for Zoom access @ $20.
June 7-8, 2025 - Aspen Wisdom is organizing a forum: The Aspen Initiative: Discovering the Wisdom We Need to Serve Our Future, to help us answer the question: How do we respond to the time we are living through?
June 19, 2025 - The Shift Network offers The Path of Christ Consciousness Nurture the Christ Within by Illuminating Your Divinity & Claiming Your Mystic Truth - "a 6-month immersion program with Matthew Fox to explore what it means to be a modern mystic and prophet, integrating this sacred knowledge into your life through the authentic teachings of Jesus and other wisdom keepers. This journey births what Matthew calls Christianity 2.0 — based not on dogma, but on a spirituality that recovers the sacred sense of original goodness." Open to Participants by Application Only. $2,700 tuition. More information and application here.
September 2025 to June 2026 - The Center for Wild Spirituality is now making plans for their Seminary of the Wild Earth program (their foundational, year-long, eco-spirituality certificate) and their Vocational Eco-Spirituality certificate (specializing in Eco-Spiritual Direction or as a Wild Guide) . Click here to join the waitlist for their 2025 cohort.
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