We seek warm dialogue with leaders of other ethical or eco-spiritual networks about how we may humbly cooperate as ethical and eco-spiritual partners.

 

Mission

To inspire, educate, and network leaders, especially young leaders, from ethical and spiritual traditions across our human family, for the purpose of personal, local, and global transformation in service of ecological sustainability.


 
 

Vision

As a diverse spiritual network, we aspire to contribute with creative learning to the process of transforming our consciousness and society by cosmologically reimagining and co-creating integral communities and thus healing Earth.

 

History

OUR GLOBAL MOVEMENT
seeks to link in spiritual energy:

OLD FRIENDS
All the wonderful persons and organizations involved in all past Assisi Conferences;

NEW FRIENDS
Other wonderful ethical and eco-spiritual persons and organizations interested in the ongoing process of our movement’s Assisi Conferences and networking.

WE HAVE GROWN
out of eight Spirituality & Sustainability Conferences held during the 1990’s in Assisi, Italy, which is the medieval home of Saints Francis and Clare. Those Conferences were convened around the vision of Thomas Berry, who was our wise teacher.

MORE RECENTLY
in 2017 and 2018, we have convened two more Spirituality & Sustainability Conferences in Assisi. Part of those Assisi conferences was spending time in Rome with Cardinal Peter Turkson and his staff to discuss how we might support Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on ecology, Laudato Si’.

IN ADDITION
we seek warm dialogue with leaders of other ethical or eco-spiritual networks about how we may humbly cooperate as ethical and eco-spiritual partners.

THE FOLLOWING SOURCES
have inspired our global movement.

  1. Laudato Si’ – On Care for our Common Home. We draw on Pope Francis’ 2015 eco-spiritual letter on integral ecology. It indicates that we are now entering what Pope Paul VI in 1970 warned could be “ecological catastrophe under the effective explosion of Industrial Civilization.”

  2. Thomas Berry’s mystical-cosmic vision. We draw on all Thomas’ writings and especially his book written late in his life, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future. It analyzes the root causes of the ecological breakdown of Modern Industrial Civilization, and it summons us to create a new “Ecozoic Era” to save the life-system of our garden-planet Earth.

  3. The Earth Charter. We draw on this visionary document, which was created by people from across the world. It provides ecological-social values and principles to guide human governance for a sustainable, just, peaceful, and democratic future.

  4. Indigenous Traditions. While humbly seeking inspiration from all ethical and eco- spiritual wisdom traditions of our human family, we especially seek to learn from
    indigenous traditions. We seek to join in their celebration of the Creator’s deeply spiritual gifts of our majestic Cosmos, of our garden-planet Earth, and of all Earth’s beautiful creatures.