What does it mean to live and lead in right relationship—with the people we love, with the Earth, and with the life force that moves through our bodies?

This April, we're honored to welcome Ganga Devi Braun, interspiritual minister and living systems theorist, and Seth Kaufmann, interspiritual minister and somatic sexologist, for a three-session workshop series that explores sacred relationship across three profound domains: intimate partnership, Earth stewardship, and sexual integrity. Drawing on interfaith wisdom, lived experience, and embodied practice, they bring both deep expertise and practical guidance for spiritual leaders navigating the real challenges of love, responsibility, and ethical leadership.

The Three Sessions:

Session 1 — Marriage & Interspiritual Partnership (April 15) Explore intimate partnership as a spiritual path of responsibility and growth, with personal stories and practical wisdom from Ganga and Seth's interfaith marriage.
Session 2 — Loving the Living World (April 22, Earth Day) Extend radical relationship to the Living World, integrating Tikkun Olam and Bodhichitta as foundations for spiritual leadership as stewardship and care.
Session 3 — Sexual Energy & Spiritual Leadership (April 29) Understand sexual energy as life force and sacred power, examining responsibility, integrity, and conscious relationship with eros within your spiritual life, shifting out of our cultural patterns of both repression and bypass.

Schedule: Wednesdays, 6–8pm | April 15, 22, 29

Who This Is For: Spiritual leaders, ministers, students, seekers, and community members
seeking a grounded, embodied approach to relationship, leadership, and sacred responsibility.

What You'll Gain: This series offers practical, transformative guidance across three essential domains:

• Marriage & Partnership: Whether you're supporting others in relationship or navigating
  your own marriage, you'll gain concrete tools and wisdom for cultivating resilience,
  navigating difference with care, and holding both solitude and partnership as sacred
  practice.
  
•  Earth as Lover: Experience a potent Earth Day practice that roots your spiritual
  commitments directly into the living world—moving love and responsibility from concept
  into embodied relationship with the Earth itself.
  
• Sexual Integrity: Receive a clear, ethical framework for integrating sexuality into
  spiritual practice and leadership. You'll develop a deeper understanding of how
  sexual-spiritual abuse occurs in communities and gain practical insight into becoming a
  force that stops these harmful patterns for good.

*Photo by Thais Aquino

Across spiritual traditions, there is a shared longing for a more just, compassionate, and connected world. What might it look like to respond to that longing together in times of uncertainty and change?  

In this gathering, we’ll explore how we may partner with the Sacred, listening for what is ours to tend while remaining open to collaboration across differences. Through reflection, conversation, and collective imagining, we’ll consider how communities of care can emerge within and among us, and how our own participation may invite and inspire others.  

Together, we’ll move at the pace of trust, honoring diverse wisdoms and the meaningful ways each of us contributes to a more beloved community.  

Saturday, April 11, 12-4pm ET 

In his beautiful book Life of the Beloved, Fr. Henri Nouwen wrote that in sharing meals with his L’Arche community, he would begin by taking the bread, blessing it, breaking it, and giving it. Using this as a metaphor, he described four movements of the inner life by which we claim and step into our lives of service, nourishment, and healing to the world. 

In this 4-hour workshop, we will explore these four movements: being taken (called, chosen), experiencing ourselves as blessed, the inevitable human experience of being broken, and taking the brokenness under the blessing so we may be given. 

If you are preparing for ordination or feeling moved to recommit to and deepen your capacity to be of spiritual service, this exploration of how we become “bread for the world” could not be more timely, relevant, and nourishing. 

Saturday, April 25, 12-4pm ET