The Conversation Project
The Conversation Project is a public engagement initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement with a goal both simple and transformative: to help everyone talk about their wishes for care through the end of life, so those wishes can be understood and respected. The Project believes these conversations should begin at the kitchen table—not in […]
Temple of the Way of Light
Temple of the Way of Light offers safe ayahuasca retreats and plant spirit healing in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, featuring a balance of highly experienced female and male healers (Onanya) from the indigenous Shipibo-Konibo tribe who together carry hundreds of years of experience practicing the ancient art of ayahuasca shamanism, supported by highly […]
Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research advances the scientific understanding of psychedelics and their potential for treating mental health disorders, enhancing well-being, and expanding our understanding of consciousness. After psychedelic research that began in the 1950s and ’60s abruptly ended in the early 1970s due to unfavorable media coverage, resulting in misperceptions […]
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) envisions a post-prohibition world where people have legal and equitable access to psychedelics for healing and personal growth, recognized as frontline tools for optimal health and wellness rather than being criminalized or stigmatized. Since its founding in 1986, MAPS has been the leading organization building the movement to […]
Lightning in a Bottle
Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) is a transformative festival experience taking place Memorial Day Weekend where the ordinary fades and the extraordinary takes its place, with seven unique worlds to explore—Lightning, Thunder, Woogie, Stacks, Junkyard, Grand Artique, and The Compass—each transmitting their own frequency. The magic isn’t always where you expect it but is found […]
Envision Festival
Envision Festival’s mission is to create an eye-opening experience that turns people onto a new form of living and a new way to be inspired, providing tools that can be integrated into current life or inspire a complete shift in life path. Set in Costa Rica, where participants can zip through jungle canopy, feel the […]
The Bhakti Fest
The Bhakti Fest Group is an organization dedicated to creating and hosting transformative spiritual and music festivals, retreats, and experiences rooted in the philosophy of Bhakti, or devotional love. Founded in 2009 with the intention of gathering a community together to celebrate the devotional paths of Kirtan, yoga, and wellness, this family-run business has welcomed […]
GreenFaith
GreenFaith is building a worldwide, multi-faith climate and environmental movement because the Earth and all people are sacred and at risk. Recognizing that the most vulnerable among us—who’ve done nothing to create the climate crisis—and the planet are suffering while governments, extractive industries, and financial institutions continue to destroy the fabric of life, GreenFaith members […]
Center for Humans & Nature
The Center for Humans & Nature is an ideas hub exploring in-depth and diverse perspectives about what it means to be human in an interconnected world. The Center is home to Humans & Nature Press, which shares ideas that build community and inspire action, and Humans & Nature Farm, a place where ideas take root […]
United Religions Initiative (URI)
The United Religions Initiative is a global grassroots interfaith network that cultivates peace and justice by engaging people to bridge religious and cultural differences and work together for the good of their communities and the world. URI implements its mission through self-organizing member groups called Cooperation Circles that engage in community action including conflict resolution […]
The Parliament of the World’s Religions
The Parliament of the World’s Religions is the world’s premier interfaith convening organization, cultivating harmony among the world’s spiritual traditions and fostering their engagement with guiding institutions to achieve a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world. Its origins are rooted in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where the historic first convening of the […]
Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, interspiritual teacher, and certified bereavement counselor who gives talks, retreats, and workshops on the teachings of the mystics, the wisdom of the feminine, and contemplative practice, rooted in the transformational power of grief and loss. As a teenager, Mirabai lived at the Lama Foundation, an intentional […]
Dawn of InterSpirituality
The Dawn of InterSpirituality project brings together religious and spiritual leaders to build bridges of harmony and collaboration across the world religions, grounded in theologian Hans Küng’s conviction that “there will be no peace among nations without peace among religions.” Since 2009, this project has organized five international conferences, most recently Dawn of InterSpirituality in […]
Circle Sanctuary
Circle Sanctuary is a non-profit Nature Spirituality church and 200-acre nature preserve founded in 1974 by Selena Fox, dedicated to networking, community celebrations, spiritual healing, and education. Located in the forested hills of southwestern Wisconsin, Circle Sanctuary sponsors gatherings and workshops at the Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve, where a vibrant community converges at classes, Full […]
Francis Weller
Francis Weller’s work explores the intersection of grief, trauma, and initiation in contemporary culture. Drawing from his experience leading the Men of Spirit initiation process and studying indigenous wisdom traditions, Weller illuminates how modern society has lost the essential “movements that made us human”—ancient skills like flintknapping, fire-making, tracking, and communal ritual that shaped our […]
Tara Brach
Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world—creating a distinctive voice in Western Buddhism that offers a wise and caring approach to freeing ourselves and society from suffering. As an undergraduate at Clark University, she pursued a double major […]