STAYING HUMAN IN INHUMAN TIMES: Essential Practices for Sacred Activists with Diane Berke and Andrew Harvey
Thursday and Friday, April 1 - 2, 2021, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm ET Saturday and Sunday, April 3 - 4, 2021,10:00 am - 1:30 pm ET Videoconference | Recording General Public: $225 | One Spirit Graduates: $180 | One Spirit Elective Credits: 2 Never before has the need for sacred activism – active engagement to support world transformation for justice, equity, and peace, from a consciousness of unity and interconnection rather than separation and division – been greater. At the heart of sacred activism lies a profound commitment to remain, in Rumi’s words, a “true human being,” even in inhuman times. In this weekend with Andrew Harvey and Diane Berke, we will explore what it means to be a true human being as well as learn and engage in the essential practices we need to nourish and sustain our humanity through times of challenge and uncertainty. The practices we will explore in this weekend include • Foundational practices to ground in our essential humanity and connect to the deepest levels of support • Peace practices to cultivate clarity and calm • Heart practices to deepen and extend loving kindness and compassion to others and ourselves • Prayer practices to open to divine guidance and grace • Body practices to anchor the archetypal process of transformation into our physical being
Rev. Diane Berke is the founder and spiritual director of One Spirit Learning Alliance and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. She is a licensed mental health counselor in New York State and has been a psychotherapist and spiritual counselor in private practice for more than 30 years. A longtime student and teacher of A Course in Miracles, Diane has written four books based on the Course: Love Always Answers, The Gentle Smile, Forgiveness as a Path of Awakening, and All Things are Lessons: Essential Teachings of a Course in Miracles. She also serves on the core faculty of Andrew Harvey’s Institute for Sacred Activism.
Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, and teacher, and the author of more than 40 books, including Son of Man, Savage Grace, with Carolyn Baker, and critically acclaimed The Hope. Born in south India in 1952, Harvey has devoted much of his life to studying the world’s mystical traditions, including intensive study of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sufi mysticism.
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