Meditation for Earth is held every Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. ET.
In-person in the Sanctuary at Rumson Presbyterian Church 4 East River Rd. Rumson, NJ
*** PLEASE NOTE: Meditation for Earth will be ONLINE ONLY on June 10, and July-August 2025 ***
Join our virtual meditation on our YouTube channel HERE
Join Waterspirit, Pinelands Preservation Alliance and our partners for a discussion on securing our constitutional right to life’s most basic necessities in New Jersey with the Green Amendment. Waterspirit has been advocating for a NJ Green Amendment as it is the strongest level of legal grounding we may leave current and future generations. JOIN US!
Bring friends and family, come out to voice your support and concerns, and feel free to ask any questions about the New Jersey Green Amendment. You will learn how you can support the movement and about other ways to combat the federal administration’s attacks on the environment. Share widely!
Please save the date for this informational meeting that will outline what this 10-week support group entails, explain the course’s suggested donation, and answer any questions you might have prior to committing. The group will meet on Zoom from 8/28-10/30 from 7-8:30 p.m. ET. LEARN MORE AND REGISTER.
Climate change, super storms, rising sea levels, large-scale pollution—do these problems seem large, looming, intractable? If you’re feeling vulnerable, dis-empowered, or burnt-out, you’re not alone: eco-anxiety, climate grief, and other climate feelings are shared by many people who are paying attention to the climate crisis. Addressing these heavy feelings in community can be a way of generating the personal resilience needed to cope with an uncertain future.
Waterspirit hosts eco-anxiety peer support groups using the Good Grief Network’s “10 Steps to Personal Resilience and Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate” method. Please join us for this informational session that will introduce the group's methodology, giving you an opportunity to meet the facilitators and ask any questions prior to committing to the 10 weeks.
Please join Waterspirit’s Exploring Spirituality, Nature, and Action Book Club for an enriching discussion of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead. Learn more and register by clicking on the button below. Grab your copy and happy reading!
Join Waterspirit on Sunday, September 21 as we welcome autumn. Intentionally connecting with the cycles of nature is an eco-spiritual practice that helps us regulate our inner lives and strengthen our connection with the planet. Friends of all ages will gather for this meaningful event celebrated with poetry, movement, contemplation, and music. This long-standing, signature program is inclusive of all faith traditions, inviting attendees into deeper connection with the meaning of autumn.
Fall is the season for all senses. The feel of cooler temperatures after a long summer. The sight of forests filled with reds, oranges and browns. The sound of crunching leaves underfoot. The smell of cinnamon and apples. The taste of pumpkin spice in everything. Welcome Autumn! There are two ways to join the celebration: in-person at Waterspirit (4 E. River Rd., Rumson, NJ) or virtually on Waterspirit's YouTube Channel.
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
Additional sessions will be held on October 21 and November 18.
Please join us at the Monmouth County Faith & Ecology Meetup! This is an informal, interfaith gathering for people of faith working on environmental issues in our county. Let's meet each other and learn what we are working on in our faith communities! What issues are inspiring us? What challenges are we facing? Let's grow and learn together at this fun networking event. Refreshments will be provided.
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
The final session in this series will be held on November 18.
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
Please save the date for Waterspirit’s Exploring Spirituality, Nature, and Action Book Club autumn meeting. Book selection and registration to be posted in early September.
Please save the date for Waterspirit’s annual Gratitude Walk on the day after Thanksgiving. Location and exact time TBA.
Please save the date for Waterspirit’s Winter Solstice Celebration.
Please save the date for Waterspirit’s annual gala, Joys of the Sea. This special event will include delicious food, an exciting silent auction, and stunning ocean views.
Sponsorship packages now available! Click here to learn more.
Tickets will go on sale in early 2026.
Joys of the Sea will feature remarks from the 2026 Suzanne Golas Spirit of Water Award winner. Help us select our next honoree by completing this form before August 31.
Waterspirit is part of the NJ Divest Collaborative which is a coalition of labor, student, educator, spiritual, and concerned residents alike with a goal of NJ divesting its state pension moneyed interests away from deadly fossil fuel and investing in less risky and corrosive industries. Want to learn more?
Join our next meeting 7/24/25 at 7PM via zoom and bring a few friends! Register HERE
Waterspirit’s Executive Director will be speaking on this high-level panel during the United Nations High Level Political Forum. It will be broadcast on UN WebTV. Stakeholders with access to UNHQ during HLPF may join in-person in Conference Room 11. See full schedule.
The NJ PACT REAL Rules: A Solution to Flooding in New Jersey
For decades, Waterspirit has dedicated efforts to stormwater management and recently green infrastructure leadership throughout the state. We are glad to help provide this opportunity to learn more about the NJ Protecting Against Climate Threats (NJPACT) regulations with some of our partners. You can take action to ensure that these lifesaving rules are passed in New Jersey. The regulations are meant to ensure our communities are prepared for the storms we know are coming. Join us!
Join us for a conversation bridging the outcomes of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, including the Nice Ocean Action Plan, with the upcoming review of SDG 14 at the 2025 High-Level Political Forum. This event will feature reflections from UNOC3 attendees (including Waterspirit’s Executive Director) as well as a strategic discussion ahead of the HLPF to assess challenges and opportunities relating to, as well as actions taken towards, the implementation of Goal 14.
This anniversary gathering will be a time for prayer, reflection, and recommitment—to a world where no community bears the burden of toxic energy infrastructure.
Trains carrying crude oil, vinyl chloride and other hazardous materials travel through towns and cities here in New Jersey, putting us at great risk. We remain concerned about the possibility of trains carrying liquefied gas through NJ, as a derailment could impact millions of people.
Those in attendance will gather to rally from 4:30PM-6:00PM and have a potluck dinner from 6:00PM - 8:00 PM.
Please join us for Waterspirit’s Summer Solstice Celebration! We will welcome the summer with music, poetry, reflection, and family-friendly fun. Special guests will be announced soon. This in-person ceremony will also be live-streamed on Waterspirit’s YouTube channel. Be sure to register for in-person or online participation to get last-minute event reminders
We are delighted to welcome two special guest musicians to this event! Leah Michael Whalen and Patty Cronheim will be sharing their talents with us.
This in-person side event will coincide with the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), to be held from 9-13 June 2025 in Nice, France. It will be held from 15:00-17:00 CEST (local time).
NEW: Livestream available here: https://www.youtube.com/live/NQW6tuBdYVg?si=F3vNtIxflqyZkh8c
The ocean is integral to our spiritual and cultural lives. This event will showcase how faith-based organizations draw on their faith traditions to promote a healthy ocean and a revolution of consciousness that realigns humanity’s relationship with the ocean. This event will also mark the launch of the Faith in the Ocean declaration, a multifaith call to action on ocean issues signed by international faith-based organizations. This event will examine how multiple faith traditions inform ocean action to meet SDG14 while conserving and living sustainably with the ocean. It will highlight co-sponsors’ Voluntary Ocean Commitments while drawing attention to critical ocean issues such as ocean-climate-biodiversity interlinkages, plastic pollution, and deep sea mining.
This virtual side event will coincide with the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), to be held from 9-13 June 2025 in Nice, France.
This virtual side event will use a rights-based approach to evaluate concerns over unsustainable proposals to develop the deep seabed, including deep sea mining, and to posit more sustainable pathways forward. Speakers from religious and scientific backgrounds will explore how their values inform their actions and Voluntary Commitments to promote a healthy ocean. This panel will also explore ocean-climate-biodiversity linkages on the path toward achieving SDG14.
Waterspirit’s Walk for Water will take place on Sunday June 8, 2025 from 9am - 11am.
Globally, the average distance a person has to travel to get potable water is 3.5 miles. Join us as we walk up to 3.5 miles to raise awareness about the importance of access to the sacred, life-giving element of water.
We will walk starting a 9am at Hartshorne Park's Battery Loop (near 1402 Portland Rd. Highlands, NJ 07732). We will meet in the parking lot area with bagels and coffee and then walk 2 loops. Join Waterspirit for the full 3.5 miles (2 loops) walk or come join for as long as you can! Each loop should take about 45 minutes.
Can't join Waterspirit on June 8? Sign up and walk on your own or create your own team of walkers and walk ANYWHERE and ANYTIME for water.
Set your goal, share your progress with your friends & family, and celebrate the spring by getting outside for a good cause! Your team of supporters can use your special link to donate as you walk. Don't forget to tag #WaterspiritWalkForWater when you share this event on social media!
All proceeds from the Walk for Water will benefit Waterspirit. Thank you for supporting our eco-spiritual programming and clean water advocacy by participating in this fundraiser.
Rain Date: June 14
Register here: Waterspirit's Walk for Water 2025
Email water@waterspirit.org with questions.
Waterspirit is co-sponsoring this online ritual series.
The BTS Center, in partnership with The Many, invite you to Lament with Earth — five seasonal events which will include original music, poetry, rituals, images, scripture and videos to reflect different seasons of loss through the liturgical year. These events are free and interactive, inviting you to pray and sing along and to bring your own sense of loss and sadness into this communal space. For more information and registration information, please visit https://thebtscenter.org/lament-with-earth-series-2024-2025/
You are invited to celebrate the 10th birthday of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical letter, Laudato Si’! This celebration, co-sponsored by the Church of St. Anselm and Waterspirit, will feature a catered lunch, a screening of the inspirational film “The Letter”, an energy savings fair with guest speakers, an ecological Mass, and a garden blessing.
Please join Waterspirit’s Exploring Spirituality, Nature, and Action Book Club for our upcoming discussion of the novel Playground by Richard Powers. Zoom link will be emailed upon registration. Learn more about this book here.
Celebrate Earth with music and friends of Waterspirit, the Monmouth Civic Chorus. At the heart of Earthsongs is Mass for the Endangered , a stunning work by Sarah Kirkland Snider that gives voice to the plight of endangered species. This deeply moving piece highlights the urgent need for environmental conservation while honoring the beauty of the natural world.
Use code “Waterspirit” at checkout to dedicate part of the proceeds to helping our organization. LEARN MORE AND GET TICKETS.
***This event is currently at capacity.***
Join Waterspirit’s Earth Day Beach Cleanup on April 19 and help us protect the sacred waters. Click here to learn more.
Join us April 16th at 7PM to learn more about why we need to go Back to Grass and get AWAY from synthetic turf fields for the sake of our environment, public health and safety, and our wallets. RSVP HERE and Please submit any questions in advance in the form here.
Did you know a regular-sized artificial turf field contains 500,000 lbs of plastic and only lasts 8 to 10 years on average, at which point it cannot be recycled. Artificial turf grass are made of complex mixtures of chemicals, including many known to be harmful to human health and the environment. Let’s learn, feel empowered and take action together!
Waterspirit is glad to co-sponsor this webinar hosted by NJ Sierra Club with Pinelands Preservation Alliance and ANJEC!
Waterspirit is excited to be a partner in this year’s NJ Grassroots Organizing Conference, a semi-annual activist training and networking event. Take this opportunity to learn from knowledgeable organizers, improve your advocacy know-how, and connect with activists across the state! RSVP HERE to join us for this event.
The event is 100% free to attend, but advance registration is required to get a headcount for the catered luncheon. It will be held in person from 10am - 5pm on Saturday, April 12th at the Rutgers Labor Education Center (50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick, NJ). You can learn more about the event at the conference website.
Join The BTS Center for a special evening event with indigenous attorney, author, and activist Sherri Mitchell, author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Leading Spirit-Based Change and founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an Indigenous educational organization that focuses on Indigenous leadership, environmental justice, land rematriation, and kinship building. Sherri will be joined by a panel of wise conversationalists as well as musician Pax Ressler, who will engage with one another around how we weave threads of belonging and kinship in this time of great upheaval.
Waterspirit is co-sponsoring this online event. Waterspirit community members can use code FIVEOFF at checkout for a discount!
Waterspirit knows the value of water. Water is sacred. Water is life. Join Waterspirit’s 4th rain barrel workshop on April 5 and conserve sacred water with us. Click here to register.
Please join us at the Monmouth County Faith & Ecology Meetup! This is an informal, interfaith gathering for people of faith working on environmental issues in our county. Let's meet each other and learn what we are working on in our faith communities! What issues are inspiring us? What challenges are we facing? Let's grow and learn together at this fun networking event. Refreshments will be provided.
Waterspirit is co-hosting this online ritual session.
The BTS Center, in partnership with The Many, invite you to Lament with Earth — five seasonal events which will include original music, poetry, rituals, images, scripture and videos to reflect different seasons of loss through the liturgical year. These events are free and interactive, inviting you to pray and sing along and to bring your own sense of loss and sadness into this communal space. For more information and registration information, please visit https://thebtscenter.org/lament-with-earth-series-2024-2025/
Waterspirit is overjoyed to host Joys of the Sea 2025 at McLoone’s Pier House in Long Branch on March 21 at 4:30 pm. Join us for food, community, and a truly memorable evening experience to further honor and protect water. This special event will include delicious plant-based food, an exciting silent auction, and stunning ocean views. Joys of the Sea will feature remarks from the 2025 Suzanne Golas Spirit of Water Award winner, Maya K. van Rossum, Delaware Riverkeeper and Founder of the Green Amendments movement.
We are grateful to our sponsors: The Joseph Lapinski Foundation, The Thomas Berry Foundation, Ann Marie and Robert Reardon, Kathryn and Robert Chambers, Sue Smith and Eleanor Swanson.
GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE MARCH 6! CLICK HERE for tickets and sponsorship opportunities!
Plastic straws may grab the headlines, but we can't overlook the urgent need to tackle single-use plastics and ensure clean drinking water for all—free from toxic contaminants. Given the plethora of evidence linking plastics to water contamination and ongoing health risks to people of all ages, we hope you will tune into this event and share it widely.
Join Waterspirit’s Public Policy & Justice Organizer and other experts for a vital discussion on advancing water equity and debunking myths about single-use plastics.
Register today: https://bit.ly/ppc-webinar-032025
Join Waterspirit on March 19 as we celebrate the arrival of Spring with music, movement, poetry and contemplation. The Spring Equinox is a time to reflect on the freshness and excitement of the rebirth of nature. We look forward to the April showers which will water our gardens and bring forth new life. Click here to learn more or to register.
The NJ Divestment Movement is having an all-hands-on deck Zoom call to discuss thoughts, ideas, and concerns about how to get fossil fuel divestment done in NJ.
Contact your State Senator and ask them to co-sponsor S198, the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act.
SEND Waterspirit’s prepared letter urging support of this bill today!
Join Waterspirit for A Beginner’s Look at Lichens with Pat Heaney. Click here to learn more or to register.
Young adults are invited to join us for a free retreat day with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. This day includes Mass and lunch with the Sisters followed by a workshop with discussion on the mental health impacts of climate change. The event is facilitated by Blair Nelsen (Executive Director, Waterspirit & CSJP UN - NGO Representative) and Sister Chero Chuma, CSJP (US Vocation Director)
This spring, The BTS Center and Waterspirit invite you to participate in a book study of The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh. Meeting once weekly for five weeks, and guided by facilitators Nicole Diroff and Blair Nelsen, this group will offer a deep dive into the text, in the context of supportive community. Our sessions will be woven with contemplative space and practice to allow for integration and presence, as well as time for sharing, conversation, and exploration.
Join our online book club on March 3 when we discuss the book The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Click here to register.
*** Please note: all of our seal monitoring events are currently at capacity. Please join us next season! If you have registered already and need to reach us, please email water@waterspirit.org. Registered participants have received emails with meetup location and further instructions.***
REGISTER for this informational meeting that will outline what this 10-week support group entails, explain the course’s suggested donation, and answer any questions you might have prior to committing. The group will meet on Zoom from 2/20-5/1 at 7-9 p.m. ET.
