We Celebrate the Ordination of Our Animal Chaplaincy Training Program

Join Us as We Celebrate the Graduation and Ordination of Our
Animal Chaplaincy Training Program

On June 25, 2023, we will be celebrating the Graduation and Ordination of our Animal Chaplaincy Training Students. Our Service will include practices, prayers, and messages created by our emerging chaplains. We will be celebrating our certification, graduation and ordination for our Animal Chaplaincy Training Students who have completed the initial-year of the Compassion Consortium 9-month Animal Training Chaplaincy program.

As always, this Graduation and Ordination Celebration will include our immersive spiritual practices—such as musical reflection, meditation, prayer, and loving-kindness.

Animal chaplains support for both animals and humans by using ritual, ceremony, and the tools of spiritual companionship. Our training program helps you fulfill your heart’s call to honor and celebrate the lives of all species, including how to companion them through joys and challenges. Our program is non-denomination and does not require students to have specific or spiritual outlook. It will, though, work with diverse set of belief systems, so that you can support people regardless of their own outlook.

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 in the world via Zoom) with our faculty and guest speakers. The program also features curated reading and reflection, film discussions, peer-supported practice groups, 1-on-1 mentoring and community-based experiential sessions. A year-end optional in-person retreat is offered.

Our curriculum combines chaplaincy fundamentals and bereavement basics with best practices from the innovative fields of interspirituality, humane education, animal theology, nature spirituality, and human-animal studies.

Visit Animal Chaplaincy Training | Compassion Consortium for additional information.

Our Compassion in Action segment on June 25 will feature Patricia Denys

Mindful Coach™, artist, animal Activist,
educator, photographer, Vegan, yogi

Patricia Denys is an advocate for the well-being of artists, activists, women, animal welfare, and all who are seeking purpose and peace. She has been teaching for over twenty-five 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 of, 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 www.patriciadenys.com