UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Values and Vaccinations Workshop:  Creating Pro Vaccination Narratives

Join via Zoom:  https://zoom.us/j/9847872987  

Free program, no registration required

This workshop, facilitated by Jud Hendrix, will explore how to understand and utilize diverse worldviews and values systems to develop “pro vaccination” narratives.  We will explore the resources present 

in different developmental and cultural worldviews to encourage vaccinations.  After a brief presentation, participants will break into smaller groups to create pro-vaccination messages designed to reach a variety of groups.

Vishnu, Values & Vaccines:  Religious Leaders Reflect on How Faith Informs Vaccination Choices and the Emergence of a Post-Pandemic World

Co-hosted by Interfaith Paths to Peace and Louisville Metro Dept of Public Health & Wellness

Join in conversation with our community’s religious and spiritual leaders as they reflect on their religious tradition‘s resources and perspectives on vaccinations and how they are planning to emerge from the Pandemic.  Panelists include:

Johnny Alse, Hindu Temple of Kentucky
Dr. Muhammad Babar, Muslim Americans for Compassion

Rev. Mary Alice Birdwhistell, Highland Baptist Church
Rev. Jason Crosby, Crescent Hill Baptist Church
Dr. Jahangir Cyrus, Louisville Baha'i Community
Cantor Sharon Hordes, Keneseth Israel Congregation
Rev. Lori Kyle, First Unitarian Church

What Do Black Social Innovators Need To Thrive? A Panel Conversation & Community Conversation

The first part of the conversation will be designed to listen and learn from a panel of Black social innovators describing their experiences of living their passion and launching their initiatives.  The second part will allow participants and panelists to be a part of one of three small breakout discussion groups designed to uncover current resources available and what needs to be developed for each of the three different stages of social innovation.  Panelists: Stachelle Bussey, LaVon Clack, Asa Coleman, DaMarrion Fleming, Savvy Shabazz, Richard Whitlock Jr., Aubrey Williams, Stacy Bailey-Ndiaye.

Prayer Vigil & Walk for Peace in the Middle East

Co-hosted by Interfaith Paths to Peace and Center For Interfaith Relations

Join with diverse neighbors from our community as together we pray for peace and healing.  We will light candles and walk in silence, prayer and presence for all those who suffer.  Brief instructions and lighting candles will begin at 8:30 in the grassy field near the entrance to the Big Four Bridge. Candles will be provided, but you are also encouraged to bring a candle which you can continue to light as a symbol of your ongoing support and prayers.  

One River, Many Wells explores Louisville's religious traditions and communities.  Join us for a conversation with Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Members include:

Sam Jones - Shawnee Branch President
Ron Ramirez - Institute Director, Church Education
Cassandra Kraig - Relief Society President Louisville 1st Ward
Terry Fiet - Louisville Stake Communications Director
Elder Trevino and Elder Miller- Louisville area full-time missionaries

SUPPORTING THE HOUSELESS:

APRIL 27, 2021 | Community Conversation Part 2

Passionate about supporting Louisville's houseless neighbors?  Join us for our second action conversation.  Participants will have an opportunity for collaborative conversation around specific areas of interest (i.e. advocacy/policy, food, tiny house/transitional housing, and religious leaders).   

APRIL 7, 2021 | A Community-Wide Action Conversation Part 1

How can we individually and collectively support our houseless brothers and sisters, especially in the face of the possibility of clear the camps where they live?  We will spend the first part of the online gathering hearing from grassroots and organizational stakeholders, and the second part, in smaller self-organizing action groups around specific ways we can be supportive of our houseless neighbors, both now and in the future.  If you have a heart for this population and want to take action join us for this conversation.  

HOST: Interfaith Paths to Peace | CO-HOSTS: Catholic Charities, Coalition For the Homeless, Feed Louisville, Hope Buss, Street Reach, St. John's Center, Douglass Blvd. Christian Church, Association of Community Ministries, S.O.U.L. Clinic of Kentuckiana

Evolutionaries of the Soul will interview different religious/spiritual leaders in our community to highlight both the work and wisdom of Louisville’s many spiritual leaders while educating the wider community on our unique religious traditions.   Free program, no registration required.

Join via Zoom:  https://zoom.us/j/9847872987 

May 5 - Jason Hiner, Louisville Baha'i Community

April 21 - Jeanette Prince-Cherry, Louisville Zen Center

March 17 - Rev. Dr. Angela Johnson, Grace Hope Presbyterian

March 3 - Rev. Mary Alice Birdwhistell, Highland Baptist Church

February 24 - Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport, The Temple

Videos of Evolutionary Interviews click here

Join us and create a circle of dreamers of all faiths embracing dream wisdom as a path to healing and peace. Dreams, harbingers of the night, guide us as we seek answers to our own concerns and the needs of our communities and congregants. The Dream Circle emphasizes the educational rather than the psychological aspects of dreams, the transformational rather than the therapeutic, and the sacred rather than the scientific.   SESSIONS:  1) Dreams of Healing and Peace We’ve Dreamt—present, past/recurring | 2) Dreams of Healing Self, Others | 3) Dreams of Healing Community | 4) Dreams of Healing World-wide 

PRESENTED BY: Jewish Association of Spirituality and Dreams (JASD), and led by co-founders Gaylia R. Rooks, Rabbi Emerita of The Temple in Louisville, and journalist Joyce Lynn, author of "Dreams and the Wisdom Within." 

Integral Life and Leadership offers a multi-dimensional perspective on how integrative frameworks and practice can enhance the evolution of consciousness, relationships, and leadership in social transformation. This course combines the Eastern disciplines for cultivating higher states of consciousness with the Western psychological insights for cultivating higher stages of consciousness. Employing the work of Ken Wilber, it offers a comprehensive framework for understanding ourselves and the world.  Participants will learn the integral vision and frameworks and then apply them to developing their own integral life practice plan, romantic relationship, and leadership capacity for social change.  

SESSIONS:  1) The Integral Vision: Overview of Integral Frameworks and Integral Life Practice | 2) Integral Romantic Relationships: Maps For Cultivating Transformative Partnerships | 3) Integral Politics and Economics: What is the Next Evolutionary Iteration for Louisville? | 4) Integral City: Cultivating The Beloved Community