Resource Library
This spiritual innovation resource library contains over 350 tools, articles, videos, podcast episodes and organizational links to support your work. Search for keywords or use the filters to discover resources that are more relevant for you.
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Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing and Systems Change
When your work is inextricable from your identity, your community, and your own liberation, you need a unique praxis of care to sustain it—and for mission-driven activists, organizers, and changemakers working under oppressive systems, making space to center vital needs like rest, self-care, and healthy boundaries isn’t as simple as clocking out.
Justice, Healing, Liberation, What can I read or listen to about spiritual innovation?, How do I deepen spiritually?, I’m burning out. What do I do?, English
An open-source framework for building meaningful and sustainable communities with templates for purpose, structure, and member experience.
Community, Strategy, Education, How do I start building my project?, How can my community serve the wider whole?, English
A framework for political economy from the Ayni Institute that gives a comprehensive framework for analyzing social formations and helps imagine ways to create alternatives to dominant economic system.
Justice, Strategy, Relationships, Money, What financial models are out there?, How do I deepen spiritually?, Why is money so hard?, English
Spiritual Directors International offers the world’s largest free directory of vetted spiritual directors and companions, making it easy to search and connect—virtually or in-person—for guidance along personal spiritual journeys
Spiritual Development, Community, Where can I find a mentor?, What can I join or be part of?, English
A kit for exploring meditation, spiritual and personal growth practices in community with the intention to empower community practice groups to safely share and explore these practices for themselves.
Community, Ritual, Leadership, How do I grow as a leader?, Buddhism
A moving talk on healing generational trauma through ritual, lineage work, and collective care. Accessible, powerful, and grounded in lived experience.
Healing, Ritual, How do I heal as a leader?, How do I deepen spiritually?, English
Essay by Sue Phillips exploring how spiritual innovation is reshaping how people find meaning beyond traditional religious congregations by building new networks, digital platforms, and adaptive practices.
Technology, Community, Culture, Strategy, What is spiritual innovation?, What can I read or listen to about spiritual innovation?, Why is Spiritual Innovation happening?, English
The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries
Book that maps the process of personal and collective soul initiation—a journey into deep purpose, descent, and the radical reimagining of human maturity.
Spiritual Development, Nature, Inner Life, How do I deepen spiritually?, English
A podcast from Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village community aimed at helping transcend fear and anger so that we can be more engaged in the world in a way that develops love and compassion.
Spiritual Development, Inner Life, Healing, What can I read or listen to about spiritual innovation?, How do I heal as a leader?, How do I deepen spiritually?, Buddhism, English
This article looks at how Sufism is abstracted from its intricate and ancient Islamic roots to be the ‘good Islam’, palatable to New Age spiritualists and Western audiences.
How does spiritual innovation relate to religion?, Discover Spiritual Innovation, Culture, Justice
The founders of Community Village share how they attract, engage, and inspire 20 and 30 year old Buddhist practitioners.
Community, Leadership, Strategy, How do I reach my audience?, How do I share our story?, Buddhism