The Threads That Hold Us

Building Spiritual Resilience

When disconnect pulls,
The Thread holds.

We are living through a moment that is hard to name simply — collapse and rebuilding, uncertainty and possibility, endings that are also beginnings. You are invited to join us in meaningful conversation to discover what it looks like to live into Interspirituality, Emergence, Integrity, Embodiment, and Radical Relationality in your day to day life.

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Five sessions.

Once a month.

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$300

One time investment*

The Threads That Hold Us: Building Spiritual Resilience is a gathering during which we ask the question: How do we live a spiritually grounded life as we offer service to others in the midst of disorientation, grief, and demand for discernment in this moment?

✓ 5 sessions via Zoom

✓ Once per month

✓ Accountable connection

✕ Homework

✕ Required reading

✕ Pre-requisites

*Your participation is an investment in a growing community, an emerging seminary, and the possibility of a better world.

The Five Sessions

The Threads That Hold Us: Building Spiritual Resilience is a five-month series of live, facilitated sessions about what it means to practice an Interfaith-Interspiritual life in the world. From October 2026 through February 2027, between 11am – 5pm ET on the third Saturday, we will gather around one of five principles that we at The Thread have identified as foundational to a life dedicated to sacred service: Interspirituality, Emergence, Integrity, Embodiment, and Radical Relationality.

These are not five concepts to master. They are five ways of being - and five capacities we can practice.

Each session is guided by a question that stems from a greater inquiry: What does it look like to live a life grounded in spiritual service, now?
From there, we begin weaving the conversation together.

The gatherings are facilitated by Interfaith-Interspiritual ministers through conversation, inquiry, deep listening, and applied practices. Facilitation at The Thread is guided by the belief that spiritual wisdom emerges through relationships. In these sessions, we honor lived experience and hold space for uncertainty, difference, grief, contradiction, joy, conflict, and whatever else arises. The work is not to escape the complexity of this moment. It is to become more capable of meeting it.

Interspirituality

Session 1 — October 17, 2026

What becomes possible when we remember that we belong to one another?

Interspirituality begins with an embodied recognition of interconnection: human beings, the more-than-human world, and the living systems of which we are all a part.

Together, we will explore what happens when spirituality moves beyond an exclusively human-centered story toward kinship and interbeing. We will consider what it means to be spiritually grounded without becoming spiritually fixed, whether our roots lie deeply in one tradition, reach into many, or are still being discovered.

And we will ask what genuine encounter across difference requires of us.

Can we remain curious when another person's experience challenges our own? Can we let our spiritual understanding grow and change? Can we build bridges without pretending our differences aren't real?

Interspirituality asks us to become lifelong learners: rooted enough to stand somewhere, humble enough to keep listening, and spacious enough not to need every difference resolved.

Emergence

Session 2 — November 21, 2026

How do we respond when we don't know what happens next?

Much of life trains us to plan, predict, solve, and control. Emergence asks something different: Can we listen closely enough to discover what this moment is asking of us?

Together, we will explore what it means to serve without assuming we already know the answer; to become less attached to imposing an outcome and more capable of noticing what is trying to arise through relationship.

We will consider how small actions ripple through larger systems; how imagination can loosen the grip of scarcity, binaries, and inevitability; and how discernment helps us recognize when to act, when to wait, and when something may need to end.

This is not about becoming the expert in the room. It is about becoming someone who can help a room to listen.

Integrity

Session 3 — December 19, 2026

Who are we when our values become inconvenient?

Integrity is more than rule-following or being seen as a “good” person. It is the ongoing practice of bringing our inner commitments and our outward actions into closer alignment.

That requires courage. It also requires accountability.

Together, we will explore what happens when we inevitably fall short: when our actions cause harm, when our intentions and impact diverge, or when something we believed about ourselves becomes harder to maintain.

What does it mean to name harm without collapsing into shame or defensiveness? What makes repair possible? How do our identities, histories, privileges, vulnerabilities, and social locations shape what we can see - and what we miss?

Integrity does not ask us to be flawless. It asks us to become trustworthy.

Embodiment

Session 4 — January 16, 2026

What changes when the body is part of our spiritual knowing?

We do not encounter the world as disembodied spirits. We meet it through bodies - bodies carrying histories, identities, intuition, memory, pleasure, grief, vulnerability, and wisdom.

Together, we will explore the body as one of the primary places of spiritual encounter.

Embodiment asks us to pay attention to what our bodies know before our minds have constructed an explanation. It asks us to make room for joy as well as grief. And it asks us to recognize that bodies move through the world differently: identity, environment and context shape how we are perceived, what we experience, and what choices are genuinely available to us.

This changes how we companion one another. Instead of rushing to fix, advise, or explain, we can learn to listen as spiritual allies, attentive to the whole person before us.

And beyond the individual body is the body we all share: the living Earth on which every breath, every relationship, and every spiritual practice depends.

Radical Relationality

Session 5 — February 20, 2027

What if relationship isn't beside the
spiritual path, but is the path?

The word radical comes from the Latin radix: root.

Radical Relationality asks us to return to the root of relationship: presence, reciprocity, generosity, responsibility, and boundaries permeable enough for connection without asking us to abandon ourselves.

Together, we will explore what it means to approach life as an ongoing invitation to relate: to other people, to ourselves, to communities, to the living world, and to what we understand as sacred.

That does not mean every relationship can or should be preserved. It does mean taking responsibility for the part that is ours. It means learning the practices of rupture and repair while recognizing that repair does not always produce resolution or reconciliation.

And it means resisting the urgency that tells us everything must happen now.

Some things can, perhaps must, only happen at the speed of trust.

We close our five sessions here because a spiritually grounded life ultimately returns us to relationship. Whatever wisdom we discover has to become something we can embody with other beings and ourselves: at thresholds and celebrations, in community and ceremony, and also in moments of disagreement, harm, grief, and change.

The question is not whether relationships will challenge us. The question is how we want to show up when it does.

Come as you are.

This is for you.

Not sure? Let's Talk.

Each session is

emergent.

In each conversation,

we aspire

towards principles that help us stay:

Present when we would rather flee.
Curious when we are certain we are right.
Connected across real difference.
Grounded enough to distinguish danger from discomfort.
Open to what is trying to emerge.

We are living through a time that resists easy language.

Things are ending. Things are emerging. Systems and assumptions that once seemed solid feel less so. There is grief and disorientation, but also possibility. And beneath the noise of any particular day is a deeper question:

How do we live a spiritually grounded life as we offer service to others in the midst of all this?

Not a spiritual life that bypasses reality. Nor one that offers easy answers, false certainty, or comfort at the expense of truth.

This course is for people who sense that building spiritual resilience is essential at this moment.

Bring your life experience, your questions, your spiritual grounding - however you understand it - and your willingness to be in real conversation with other people.

Your Questions, Answered

You may be discerning ordination or a path of service. You may already be an ordained minister, chaplain, spiritual companion, counselor, caregiver, or community leader. Or you may simply be trying to live with greater presence, integrity, and connection in a world that keeps shifting.
You do not need to belong to a particular tradition, or any. You do not need special knowledge or preparation.
Anyone who wants a spiritual perspective on this moment alongside the company of others building that capacity alongside them is welcome.
The invitation is to show up with the intention to prioritize relationships, wrestle with challenging questions, and engage in discernment that leads to meaningful action.
If you are feeling the tension between the sensation of disconnect with the world related to your internal guiding light, this course offers you an opportunity to lean into the discomfort of showing up for yourself and others, especially when it is hard.
This course will not give you answers. It will outline five pillars identified by The Thread as foundational elements to showing up for Interfaith-Interspiritual service and create space for your to define what holding the thread looks like for you in this moment. Join the conversation to stretch your perspective, open your heart, and engage with fellow humans seeking to embody their values.
We will meet on the third Saturday of the month, from 11am – 5pm ET, over five months:
- Oct 17, 2026
- Nov 21, 2026
- Dec 19, 2026
- Jan 16, 2027
- Feb 20, 2027
On Zoom!
Our community spans across several countries and time zones.
After you register, you will be sent a link to create a secure profile on Simplero, our learning management system. It is within that platform that Zoom links will be shared for each session.
We look forward to welcoming you online!
Five sessions over the course of five months will be hosted on Zoom by a variety of Interfaith-Interspiritual ministers from The Thread.
You will be invited to engage in meaningful conversation, personal reflection, and deep spiritual work guided by the presence of the Divine of your understanding.
Each session is an opportunity to practice capacities that matter far beyond the gathering itself: listening deeply, staying with complexity, discerning rather than reacting, noticing what our bodies know, taking responsibility, repairing relationship, and remaining open to what we cannot yet see.
This is formation through exploration and spiritual practice: a place to discover, in community, how we want to live.
Your investment in the world you want to create matters.
Funds collected from enrollment for The Threads That Hold Us support not only these sessions, but the continued growth of The Thread community and our emerging Interfaith-Interspiritual Seminary, helping us build a place where spiritual formation, courageous relationship, and sacred service can continue to take root and grow.
By joining us, you help nurture a space for learning, connection, and transformation, not only helping to sustain our work, but actively co-creating together what it can become.
If you would like to sponsor the attendance of another community member or make an additional donation to support our ministry, click here. Any and all that you can give makes an impact. Thank you!
Nope! There are no homework assignments, study groups, or extra meetings required. You are always welcome to reach out to one of the faculty at The Thread if you have any questions. Our Spiritual Care Team is also available if you need support regarding any class materials or other elements related to your experience of the class content.
No problem! We encourage you to attend each session for the full duration. We also understand that life happens.
For those enrolled, recordings will be made available on Simplero within the week after each session. You will have access to course recordings for a limited time after the conclusion of the last session.