Reconnecting people across the globe with their deepest values, so they can meet crisis with courage.
We’re living in an age of polycrisis, and this has left many people feeling separate from the world around them and disconnected from their faith or deepest values. When left alone to contend with the sheer extent of the problems we face, feelings of futility and apathy may overwhelm us. Even when we have a great desire to do something, the challenge of finding a meaningful way to respond to the crisis at our door can leave us feeling utterly lost.
This programme focusses on designing and co-creating events that bring people together across diverse cultures, faiths and traditions. In recent years we have co-created and collaborated on events with a number of partners, including: Freedom from Torture, Paiwand Afghan Association, Camden Community Engagement, City of Sanctuary, Migrateful and Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants.
Through an interweaving of live talks, action-oriented discussion, workshops, ritual, music and storytelling, our Faith & Moral Courage series asks the following quesions:
Are there insights from the world's spiritual and faith traditions that can help us grow our courage?
What can we learn from people who've risked everything to live up to their values?
How can we inspire ourselves and each other to grow our capacity to brave our limits?
Are there simple practices that can help with this?
What forms of courage are especially needed in our age of unravelling, uncertainty and risk?
In an age of unravelling, uncertainty and risk, our Faith & Moral Courage programme seeks to understand how we can grow our capacity to brave our limits.
The Bridging Divides, Loving Earth Conference
On 21st July 2023, we held our Bridging Divides, Loving Earth Conference, where we explored the intersection of climate and peace, with contributions from David Hinton, Sam Lee, Scilla Elworthy and more. You can view the talks from this event
Spiritual Ecology Conference
On 29th June 2024, we held our Spiritual Ecology Conference, where we explored the links between spirituality, ecology and peacemaking, with contributions from René August, Dekila Chungyalpa, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and more. You can view the talks from this even
“To those people who convene or articulate courage as persistence, I think this is the time to think of courage as lingering in places of impediment. It’s those places where we don’t know what to do, don’t know how to go forward. That’s where the work is. It’s in those places where there is no funding or there’s no forward movement, where things get awkward. That’s where there’s a profusion of grace.”
Bayo Akomolafe
“If we can go beyond the pain of the heartbreak, there is a vast energy for change behind it. When people harness that energy for change, things start to happen. If you’re walking down a street and a wounded dog is limping with a bleeding paw, you’ll want to stop and take action because it breaks your heart to see so much pain. What heartbreak is composed of is far bigger than that. So I ask you, what breaks your heart? That’s where your energy for change lies.”
Scilla Elworthy
“We all innately do have courage and faith, but it sometimes needs to be revealed because it’s covered up by people’s anxieties and worries. We don’t believe in our own inner potential or our own innate wisdom and compassion, which is there waiting to be discovered.”
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Archetype Cards
Explore our new interactive Faith And Moral courage Archetype cards
Our Faith and Moral Courage Archetype cards explore the attributes of archetypes with examples and videos to guide you.
