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 March as we get additional information, and a new calendar listing will come out in April 2025. Don't be intimidated by the scope of this list; choose to participate in just what calls to you.
March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2025, at 4 p.m. PT - Convergence and Creation Spirituality Communities are presenting a four-part webinar "to explore the deep spiritual roots of this political moment and uncover pathways toward collective action, resilience, and renewal": From Darkness to Dawn: Spiritual Courage and Political Action in the Age of MAGA. This transformative 4-part series will bring together some of the most provocative spiritual leaders, thinkers, and activists of our time: Matthew Fox, Andrew Harvey, Mirabai Starr, Yvette Flunder, and Cameron Trimble. Click here for more information and registration.
March 7, 2025, from 6:30 a.m. 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. PT - Garrison Institute is having a day-long symposium "to explore and celebrate The Spiritual Legacy of Father Thomas Keating, who was a Trappist monk, enlightened spiritual master, founder of the Centering Prayer movement, and a pillar of contemplative inter-spiritual dialogue. The symposium will weave together teaching, practice, panel discussions, and provocative immersion sessions as we dive deeply into Fr. Thomas’s prophetic vision of Oneness as both an inner state of consciousness and an outer pathway of planetary healing." Morning & midday Immersion Sessions include: The Spirit of the Snowmass Interreligious Conference and Making a New World: Voices from the Younger Generation and an optional centering prayer from 9 to 9:30 a.m. PT Register here for virtual access ($139)
March - October 2025, at various days and times - The BTS Center is offering Walking the Wild Edges: Spiritual Accompaniment Circles for Challenging Times, monthly online gatherings plus an optional half-day retreat guided by skilled facilitators and open to spiritual seekers of all kinds. Learn more and register
March 16, 2025, from 1-4 p.m. PT - Ecumenical Ministies of Oregon’s annual Interfaith Earth Summit will have a focus on climate safety and health, learn how we can work together to protect our community from climate change. This gathering is both in-person and on Zoom, held simultaneously with other communities across the state. Sign up at https://emoregon.org/event/oregon-interfaith-earth-summit-2
The Church for our Common Home at 15436 Strong Road, Dallas, OR is an "internet/radio blog church dedicated to AWE, Art, the Wisdom teachings of Christ-Sophia and the EARTH." Rev. Bonnie Tarwater announced she will commemorate the opening of their new labyrinth at 4 p.m. on March 16th, following their participation in the Earth Summit .
March 19, 2025 - Center for Christogenesis is presenting a webinar with philosopher and process thinker Matthew David Segall: Science and Religion in a Paticipatory Universe. This talk explores the evolving relationship between natural science and theology through the lens of process philosophy, arguing that both disciplines—often seen as conflicting ways of knowing and worldviews—can be reframed and integrated within a participatory understanding of the cosmos. More information and registration here.
March 27, 2025 - EcoAmerica and Blessed Tomorrow are organizing a National Faith + Climate Forum. Congregartions are invited to register as a host location by Thursday, March 17, 2025. Learn what hosting entails! Blessed Tomorrow provides hosts with: On-site and Technical Checklists, Participation Guides, Promotional Support, Registration Management, Event Platform.
April 25, 2025, from 3:30-7:00 p.m. - Earth Day at SOU at the Farm.
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 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.”
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?
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.
Rogue Valley Voice aggregates and curates information from many third-party sources and does not necessarily endorse all aspects of others' work. Still, we find their viewpoint provocative and interesting enough to encourage the reader to engage with and come to their understanding and actions, as they deem appropriate.
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