To promote informed dialogue about religion on campus and beyond, Global Spiritual Life presents various trainings across our global network.

Cultivating Beloved Community Zone

Offered to NYU students, faculty, staff.

This workshop helps you identify your own voice, gain new tools to share its power, and participate in difficult conversations with others to cultivate more belonging, care, and connection for all.

Register for Cultivating Beloved Community. The next in-person session will be on Thursday, March 2nd, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM EST


Faith Zone Trainings

Offered to NYU students, faculty, staff.

Faith Zone

Faith Zone is a workshop designed to promote spiritual and religious literacy and dialogue. Since its inception, the training was awarded the 2017 NASPA International, Multicultural, Gender, LGBTQ, Spirituality, Disability, and Related Excellence Award and the 2014 Inaugural Spirituality and Religion in Higher Education Outstanding Spiritual Initiative Award.

Register for Faith Zone. The next virtual session will be on Wednesday, March 29th, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM

Faith Zone 2: Faith as a Bridge

Join GSL for Faith as a Bridge. Together we’ll be empowered to build coalitions across faith traditions and find ways to turn our religious commitments into empowered moral activism.

Register for Faith as a Bridge. The next virtual session will be on Monday, April 10th, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM EST


Jewish Ally Zone

Offered to departments and students by request.

This workshop invites participants to explore the diversity of Jewish identity and practice at NYU, learn about the history of anti-Semitism and its manifestations today, and reflect on the impact of anti-Semitism on the Jewish student experience.


Living on Purpose: Mindful Life Skills

Offered to NYU students, faculty, staff.

Join us for a conversation with the Center for Global Spiritual Life on the benefits of mindfulness, meditation, and integrating a continuum of care into our well-being practices. This training empowers you to utilize tools for self-regulation to foster curiosity, empathy, connection, and groundedness in your daily life.

Through contemplative practices, you will assess how you, as an individual, contribute to personal and collective well-being!

Register for Living on Purpose. The next online session will be on Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST


Muslim Ally Zone

Offered to departments and students by request.

This presentation, offered by the Islamic Center at NYU, educates departments at NYU about the religion of Islam, understanding the challenges of Islamophobia, and most importantly, reflecting upon the Muslim student experience on campus.