Worldviews and Ways of Life

Rather than "religion" and "non-religion," what does it mean to look at these phenomena as part of the broader category of worldviews and ways of life?

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Schedule

Transformational Experience Design

Therapy and Spirituality in Racial Healing

Building Ecumenical Faith Communities

Crossfit as Reinventive Institution

Finding One's Path - Religion and One's Identity

Religion Around Virginia Woolf

Hillsong and the Genius of Evangelical Marketing

Opening Session

What is Open Div? How to get the most from this conference?

Breakout Session

Featuring a live performance by Leah Coloff and a guided meditation by Luis Gil.

Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future

What infrastructure do we need to create to help people grapple with life's big questions?

Human Instruments

Join TEDx speaker and renowned facilitator, Nick Demeris, with an interactive event making music together with other members of the conference

Growing Pains - Artist Interview

Conspiracy Theories and New Age Spiritualities

Community and Tech, Community and Healing

Experience Design for Transformation

Tolkien-ism, Jedi-ism, and Invented Religions

Movement Chaplaincy and Sustainable Activism

The Future of LGBTQ Spirituality

Belonging and Culturally Sensitive Spiritual Practice

Becoming a Millennial Zen Monk

How do you create new rituals or revitalize old ones? Where do you even start?? Get a backstage look into the mind and process of a professional ritual designer as he leads two attendees through a brainstorm and design sprint.

Ezra Bookman

1:00 pm

Spiritual Direction for the Non-Religious

What does it mean to apply the ancient Jesuit practice of "sacred listening" to those seeking meaning in non-religious contexts?

Meisaan Chan

3:30 pm

Spiritual Direction Pop-up

Interested in trying out spiritual direction? Apply here to get matched with a spiritual director for a 25-minute, pro bono session to try out spiritual direction.

Nontheistic Sanctification

Gina Magyar-Russell

The Sunday Assembly

Josh Bullock

Storytelling and Organizing

Marshall Ganz

Faith & Crossfit

Alexander Darius Ornella

After World Religions

Chris Cotter

Attention Collections

Anthony Garcia

Zen Buddhism and Religious Violence

Brian Victoria

Journaling as a Spiritual Practice

Christina Baldwin

Building the Sacred Design Lab

Casper ter Kuile

Spiritual Direction for the Non-Religious

Sarah Cledwyn

Spiritual and Religious Coping in the Non-religious

Julie Exline

Reimagining the Role of Religion in a Changing World

Elan Babchuck

Nuns, Nones, and Modern Day Expressions of Benedictine Spirituality

Katie Gordon

Chaplaincy for Spiritual Rebels

Rev. Sarah Bowen

Finding Your Path Outside Tradition

Jillian Richardson

The Story of the Nomadic School of Wonder

Barbara Groth

ACT, Spirituality, and Cultivating Prosociality

Steven C. Hayes

The Future of Belonging

Vanessa Mason

11:00 am

Yoga / Movement Practice

Led by Reggie Hubbard, Founder of Active Peace Yoga and member of Black Boys Om

Reggie Hubbard

12:00 pm

Negative Theology Panel

Panel discussion on apophatic theology (aka negative theology), a theological and religious practice which aims to speak only in terms of what may not be said about God, because God is ultimately unknowable.

Dan McKanan

3:00 pm

VR Meditation with EvolVR

EvolVR is a VR spiritual community, with regular group meditations and small group discussions. Join us in VR or live-streamed on your computer for a VR meditation experience led by founder & UU minister, Jeremy Nickel.

Jeremy Nickel

4:30 pm