Sacred Sleep: Liminal Dreaming

June 17 & June 24, 6-8pm ET

Rev. Dr. Ed O’Malley

We are living in an in-between world, a threshold time where old structures are dissolving and something new is longing to emerge. What if our dreams are responding to this moment?

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The Practice of Sacred Relationship

A 3-Part Series April 15, 22, 29.

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?

Becoming Bread for the World

April 25th, 12-4 PM ET

Rev. Diane Berke

Inspired by Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen and the ritual of sharing meals with his L'Arche community, this 4-hour workshop explores a profound spiritual path:
to be taken (called), blessed, broken, and given.

Sacred Conspiracy: Building the Beloved Community

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?  

Ancestral Support & Healing: Indigenous & Contemporary Insights With Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim.

Cultivating collaborative relationships with ancestors—both recent and distant—opens pathways to profound support, healing, and wisdom.

The Thread That Holds

This course was created for this moment…

This is a time of grief, unraveling, emergence, and holy discomfort. What if the way we habitually respond to these moments perpetuates the crisis? In this moment, we are being called into something different.The Thread That Holds is not a retreat from the world, but a place to remember what holds us as we move through it.

“The Thread is a sacred learning community that has been an anchor as I bridge the everyday and the imaginal to ideate and bring to fruition a world where all beings are interwoven and thriving in the deep time to come.”

"I had been meaning to write and share how meaningful [the first session] was for me. I found myself moved to tears throughout the day—simply being in the beauty of the container you and your team so thoughtfully created, experiencing the palpable divine presence, and feeling the warmth of the shared energy. I felt completely bathed in it. The care, intention, and effort were evident not only in the content, flow, and execution, but also in the tender way we were held in such a gentle yet powerful opening. That kind of experience can only be created through genuine intention, and I want to acknowledge and thank [you—as well as] all those who helped bring [the day] forth—for the depth of work behind it."

“The Thread is one of the few places where I have felt invited to open and explore myself deeply, to be vulnerable and courageous. At The Thread, sacred space is created with intention, commitment, and integrity. There is spaciousness as well as substance in every conversation. We honor all that is brought forward and feel a willingness to have messy and real conversations. We are being encouraged to notice the difficult times we are in and take responsibility for the way we are showing up in the world. I highly recommend The Thread to anyone who wants to be fully present and prepared to take spiritually-grounded action in this moment.”

“What moves me most is that The Thread invites us to look honestly at our shared humanity — to ask: How do we stay connected, even with those who see the world so differently? Through the voices of wisdom from many spiritual traditions, we are reminded that we are all part of something larger, and that love and presence can be a bridge across any divide.”

“My experience with the Thread's coursework is one of curiosity and inquiry. They pose provocative questions about what is happening in our world and what it means to show up in these times. I notice discomfort—the muscles that haven't been stretched in some time are remembering how to flex. These are the questions that have no easy answers, or any answers at all. The Thread invites me to be vulnerable, so that the power of being in community can weave its work. As a hospital chaplain, I companion people who are very ill or dying, and being present, getting curious, and making peace with uncertainty are the practices of my field. Everything the Thread asks us to lean into will not only help me in my work—it also reminds me of my humanity.”

“I had the pleasure of joining The Thread in its inaugural year. Getting in on the ground floor and the openness with which that ground floor was held was a beautiful testament to the ministry The Thread is committed to: open-hearted, curious, brave, ever-learning, committed and rigorously gracious. The spiritual wisdom one has the opportunity to gain alongside the many opportunities to implement these learnings makes the spiritual education

The Thread offers incredibly grounding for the wide and winding path that ministry can represent. I consistently felt held with the utmost care by the faculty of The Thread, with many access points to reach out to one’s Guide, the Spiritual Care Team, any of the faculty or the directorship themselves. And not only are these people all accessible, in my experience, they were also incredibly proactive in reaching out and making sure we all kept somewhat abreast of the work required of us and checking in when they knew that we may be struggling with the work or in our personal lives.

The ministry of The Thread is applied at all junctures of the work that they do. It has been my absolute pleasure to be able to call myself a seminarian of The Thread at this incredibly heartbreaking and, yet, heart-opening time in history. My hope is to carry the example of heart-centred service they have modeled for me to the communities that I am called to serve.”