Come join in interfaith community for transformative practice,  compassionate listening, and community connection. Participate in an hour of Sacred Space and then take this model to your friends or city as a resource for contemplative living and living in unity with all people. Join in the mission of cultivating compassion through reflective practices and contemplative activism so that all beings can thrive. Rev. Teresa Cowan Jones (sacredspacecommunity.org) will facilitate this hour of interfaith contemplation with a guided meditation from Rev. Natasha Korshak (solcenter.com) and music by Megha Grace Morganfield. 

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Teresa Cowan Jones is an executive, leadership and personal coach with 20 years experience, an ordained progressive minister (UCC), an instructor at the Center for Integrative Medicine, faculty for the Hesychia School for Spiritual Direction, and founder of The Compassion Coalition and the Breakthrough Leadership Institute, a transformational leadership and community development initiative.

She founded Sacred Space, a secular and interfaith community that builds skills of compassion through contemplative practices to fuel social justice, a community development model replicated in 16 cities and 6 countries.

A fellow in the Harvard University's Spiritual Innovator Cohort and the Public Voices Fellowship, she is also author of over one hundred tools for effectiveness. Teresa holds a B.S. in Psychology and a Master of Divinity with highest honors from Vanderbilt University (1996). A professionally trained coach (ICF accredited Coach U) and informed by neuroscience and behavior change science, she has served as coach and faculty of the Center for Progressive Leadership, a national nonpartisan leadership organization developing high-potential political leaders.

Teresa is a certified facilitator in Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) and is founding and lead coach for CIT at the Center for Compassion, Integrity and Secular Ethics at Life University. A former pastor and chaplain, she also developed and taught university courses in sociology and has twenty years of professional experience in leadership development in both the public and private sectors.