Events & Speakers

Yosaif August

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Creating Sacred Space for Patient Healing”

Yosaif August

Coleman Barks

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Rumi’s Poetry and Music”

Coleman Barks

Sandra Bertman

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Last Rights/Last Rites: Meaning-making and Decision-making at the End of Life”

Sandra Bertman

Sylvia Boorstein

Titles of UFCSH Talks:”Open Heart Meditation: Practice and Conversation with Sylvia Boorstein” and “The Art and Science of Changing Yourself: Demystifying Spiritual Practice”

Sylvia Boorstein

Joan Borysenko

Title of UFCSH Talk: “The Wisdom of the Heart: Social Connectedness and Healing”

Joan Borysenko

Robert Carter

Title of UFCSH Talk:”Encounter with Enlightenment: What Can We Learn From Buddhist Ethics?”

Robert Carter

Thomas R. Cole

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Anatomy and Humanity: Conversations Between Donors and Dissectors”

Thomas Cole

Allan Combs

Title of UFCSH Talk: “The Evolution of Spirit and Consciousness”

Allan Combs

Stephen Cook

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Psychosocial Issues and Cardiac Health”

Stephen Cook

Jorge Ferrer

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Transpersonal Psychology and the Future of Religion: A Participatory Vision for the 21st Century”

Jorge Ferrer

John Fox

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Writing from Spirit”

John Fox

Harris Friedman

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Analysis of the Challenges Inherent in Research on the Topic of Spirituality and Health”

Harris Friedman

Shefa Gold

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Sacred Song and Healing”

Shefa Gold

John Graham-Pole

Title of UFCSH Talk: “What’s known, what’s real, what’s good: Reflections on 40 Years of Science and Art in Medicine”

John Graham-Pole

Arthur Green

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Judaism in an Environmental Age: Kabbalah for the Future”

Arthur Green

Alex Grey

Titles of UFCSH Talks: “Art as a Spiritual and Healing Path” and Transfigurations: An Evening with Alex Grey”

Alex Grey

Robert Hall

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Approach to Health”

Robert Hall

Gina Rose Halpern

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Art and the Spirit”

Gina Rose Halpern

Shaya Isenberg

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Freedom, Spirituality, and Terror” in response to 9/11

Shaya Isenberg

Robert Ivker

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Overview of Holistic Medicine”

Robert Ivker

Harold Koenig

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Religion, Spirit and Healing”

Harold Koenig

Mary Rockwood Lane

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Seeking the Divine Feminine Through Art and Healing”

Mary Rockwood Lane

Elizabeth Lesser

Title of UFCSH Talk: “The New American Spirituality: A Seeker’s Guide”

Elizabeth Lesser

Jeff Levin

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Epidemiological Reflections on Spirituality”

Jeff Levin

Bo Lozoff

Title of UFCSH Talk: “An evening with Bo Lozoff: It’s a meaningful life – It just takes practice”

Bo Lozoff

Alastair McIntosh

Titles of UFCSH Talks: “Reclaiming Native Land Rights in Scotland: Reversing the Highland Clearances While Restoring the Land and Celtic Identity” and “Celtic Indigenous Insights on Cultural, Personal and Earth Healing”

Alastair McIntosh

Robin Meyers

Titles of UFCSH Talks:
“How Quantum Physics Has Altered Our Perception of God”
“The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus”
“Thinking Religiously: Are Human Beings Irrational or Trans-rational?”
“UNDONE: Faith as Resistance to Orthodoxy”
“UNDONE: Faith as Resistance to Empire”

Robin Meyers

Thomas Moore

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Healing Body, Soul and Spirit”

Thomas Moore

Jacob Needleman

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Healing and the Eternal Questions of Life” and “Health Meaning and the Soul”

Jacob Needleman

Thomas Keating

Title of UFCSH Talk: “The Experience of Centering Prayer”

Thomas Keating

James O’Dea

Title of UFCSH Talk: “The Heart of the Matter: Science and Spirituality- A Compelling Conversation About New Understanding and Possibilities”

James O'Dea

Christina Puchalski


Title of UFCSH Talk: “Spirituality and End-of-life Care: A Time for Listening and Caring”

Christina Puchalski

Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson


Title of UFCSH Talk: “The Emergence of the Cultural Creatives”

Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson

Layne Redmond

Title of UFCSH Talks: “Rhythmic Wisdom, the Healing Power of Sacred Sound, Drumming and Trance” and “Invoking Our Muse”

Layne Redmond

Saki Santorelli

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Clinical Experience with Minfulness as a Therapautic Modality”

Saki Santorelli

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Title of UFCSH Talk: “The Contemplative World as a Source for Healing”

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Hedy and Yumi Schleifer

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Journey Through Illness”

Hedy and Yumi Schleifer

Marilyn Schlitz

Title of UFCSH Talk: “Intentional Healing: Exploring the Extended Reaches of Consciousness”

Marilyn Schlitz

John Seed

Title of UFCSH Talks: “Protecting the Rainforests: Case Studies from Papua, New Guinea and Ecuador” and “Wild Earth, Wild Mind, Wild Heart: Experiencing Deep Ecology”

John Seed

Ronald D. Siegel

Title of UFCSH talk: “Befriending Fear and Pain: Mindfulness in the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Related Disorders”

Ronald D. Siegel

Huston Smith

Title of UFCSH Talk: “The Human Spirit in the Third Millennium” Light at the End of the Tunnel”

Huston Smith

Elisabeth Targ

Title of UFCSH Talks: “Spirituality in Medicine and Psychiatry” and ” Research in Prayer and Distant Healing”

Elisabeth Targ

Claude Anshin Thomas

Title of UFCSH Talk: “At Hell’s Gate: Ending War Living Peace”

Claude Anshin Thomas

Arthur Waskow

Title of UFCSH Talk: “9/11: How Shall We Really Heal?”

Arthur Waskow

Jean Watson

Title of UFCSH Talk: “When Things of the Spirit Come First: Toward a Caring Science”

Jean Watson

David Wilcox

Titles of UFCSH Talks: “Healing Words and Music: An Evening with David Wilcox” and “Musical Medicine: An Experiential Workshop”

David Wilcox

Tui Wilschinsky

Title of UFCSH Talk: A Session on Dances of Universal Peace — Illuminating the Path of the Heart”

Tui Wilschinsky

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