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Our
Story
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Urban Spirituality Center is an offspring
of Diversity as Gift, a Portland 501c3 Nonprofit Corporation. Diversity
as Gift was founded by Jim Galluzzo, a teacher, Spiritual Director
and trainer who saw a deep, unmet need for an urban center for spirituality. |
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is a peace-filled sanctuary within walking
distance of the downtown offices. It is a place to calm, to center,
to renew and to deepen connections. |
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is a vision shared by a group of like-minded
individuals who support the mission of Diversity as Gift: a vision
of seeing people as fully human and honoring spirituality as an inherent
human quality. All of these individuals are certified as spiritual
directors. Spiritual direction is ancient discipline that has been
updated to include many members of the laity. This discipline is designed
to companion an individual in their spiritual journey through life
- and to help deal with the spiritual questions and needs so common
to our lives. |
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group is an inclusive group, unlimited by
tradition, meeting the needs of all people, wherever they are on their
spiritual journey. This Urban Spiritual Center offers guided spiritual
direction, classes, whole body care and a variety of disciplines that
support and develop the whole human. |
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Urban Spirituality Center supports people's
evolving sense of wholeness through offering nourishing silence, loving
community and awakening experiences, services, practices and classes. |
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