Cultivate Compassion & Peace in a Multicultural World

Past event
Aug 11, 2013, 3 PM

Join the UVM Center for Cultural Pluralism & the Silver Dove Institute (www.silverdoveinstitute.org) for a delightful, spiritually inclusive, inspiring celebration with Jamal Rahman, Carol A. Fournier & Harpist Monika Baege!
Recital Hall, Southwick Music Building (Redstone Campus) UVM, 392 South Prospect St., Burlington, V T 05405

Cultivating compassion and charity across faith traditions begins by drawing on the spiritual strength of faith to inspire as well as engage a lived faith informed by the depth of spiritual practice supported through relationships with each other, community and the global reality of diverse religious and philosophical perspectives.

Jamal Rahman and Carol A. Fournier offer perspectives and wisdom gained from over twenty-one years of creating forums for understanding and community. Jamal is a popular speaker on spirituality and interfaith relations, has been featured in the New York Times, CBS News, BBC and various NPR programs. He is the co-author of "Religion Gone Astray: What we found at the Heart of Interfaith" and "Getting to the Heart of Interfaith." Carol is the founder of the Silver Dove Institute, spiritual director and primary faculty for the "Art of Spiritual Guidance" an Interfaith Spiritual Direction training program offered in VT. She is a counselor, author and retreat guide as well as faculty at a number of colleges and universities.

3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Talk & Dialog with Jamal Rahman
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Harpist Monika Baege, Book Signing with Jamal Rahman and Silver Dove Institute "Coming of Age" 21st Birthday Celebration Reception
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. Multicultural and Interfaith Spiritual Care: Cultivating Interfaith Communities of Understanding

Suggested donations to support the Silver Dove Institute! Give as you are able your generosity supports our work of healing and transformation in our world as well as our scholarship fund!

For more information see www.silverdoveinstitute.org and the UVM Bored website for August 11.

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