This is an extraordinarily hard time for clergy and lay folks to lead. In a painfully polarized political climate—and with so many pressing needs for justice and peace— this workshop centers bridge building strategies that religious leaders can use to nourish themselves and to empower their own communities.

The content of this (free) workshop is a distilled down teaching from the religious and spiritual histories taught in the Contemplative Reading/Spiritual Autobiography class. We will especially consider how women have led through building coalitions and trusting the power of their small, committed acts to "leaven" the transformations of history.