Vegans: Animal Chaplaincy Training (6/25)

Wm. Melton (Compassion Consortium), Ananda (DBM), Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

I can help animals and humans? Yes!

Celebrate the graduation and ordination of the Animal Chaplaincy Training Program on June 25, 2023. It is a celebration of the graduation and ordination of animal chaplains, trained students.

The service will include practices, prayers, and messages created by the emerging chaplains, celebrating their certification, graduation, and ordination who have completed the initial-year of the Compassion Consortium's 9-month Animal Training Chaplaincy program.

It will include immersive spiritual practices — such as a musical reflection, meditation, prayer, and loving-kindness (metta).

• We celebrate the ordination of our Animal Chaplaincy Training Program, Sunday, June 25, 2023, 1:00 PM | Meetup

This muscle is built from 100% vegan foods

Animal chaplains support both animals and humans by using ritual, ceremony, and the tools of spiritual companionship. 

The training program helps them fulfill their heart’s call to honor and celebrate the lives of all species, including how to companion them through joys and challenges.

The program is non-denominational and does not require students to have any specific spiritual outlook. It does, however, work with a diverse set of belief systems, so that students can support people regardless of their own personal outlook.

Beauty's in a bottle or on a table?

Animal Chaplaincy Training is available in 3-month, 6-month, and 9-month program durations. All programs begin each September.

Training includes live classes (available worldwide via Zoom) with CC faculty and guest speakers. The program also features curated readings and reflections, film discussions, peer-supported practice groups, 1-on-1 mentoring, and community-based experiential sessions.

An optional year-end, in-person retreat is offered. The curriculum combines chaplaincy fundamentals and bereavement basics with best practices from the innovative fields of inter-spirituality, humane education, animal theology, nature spirituality, and human-animal studies.

• Animal Chaplaincy Training | Compassion Consortium

Pat and animal companion

ABOUT: Mindful Coach™ Patricia Denys will be featured on the June 25th Compassion in Action segment. She is an artist, animal activist, educator, photographer, vegan, yogini, and advocate for the well-being of artists, activists, women, animals, and all who are seeking purpose and peace. She has been teaching for over 25 years in the Los Angeles area and has been a working artist, photographer, published author, and animal activist her entire adult life. She was trained as a professional coach by CTI (Co-Active Training Institute) and is a member of ICF (International Coaching Federation). Her life has been spent as a working artist, photographer, educator, graphic designer, academic dean, writer, and activist. Her most recent studio works have focused on the dichotomies that exist between society’s perception and the reality of animals in containment, such as in factory farms and the public display industry, specifically regarding the plight of Tilikum, the Orca held hostage at SeaWorld. Learn more about Patricia and her work at patriciadenys.com