5-Day Pathway

Awaken Your Revolutionary Spirit

Take courageous action on behalf of what you cherish, and contribute to a thriving world for yourself and others.

Join us in celebrating our milestone anniversary with a year of educational programs designed to sustain your practice and deepen your perspective as you meet the unfolding joys, sorrows, and uncertainties ahead. This 5-Day Pathway is inspired by the revolutionary spirit of our founder, Br. David Steindl-Rast, and his belief that gratefulness overflows into action.

revolutionary (rev•o•lu•tion•ar•y) adjective
involving or causing a complete or dramatic change

What does living gratefully have to offer a world that can feel like it is falling apart? As we live within ongoing climate crises, political tumult, and inequitable social systems — all while navigating our individual lives — this is an essential question to ask.

The answer lies in the final step of Stop.Look.Go, the foundational daily practice of living gratefully. As we become enlivened by the gifts of living gratefully, we’re called to go, to ask ourselves, what do I want my unique contribution to be? And to purposefully respond with our individual expressions of care. Recent research shows that such a response is good for us — living gratefully not only increases our concern for the well-being of others, but also positively impacts our brains, enhancing our enjoyment of giving to others. Awakening your revolutionary spirit is what leads to individual and collective transformation — a transformation full of possibilities realized through your grateful actions.

Whether you’re looking to begin taking grateful action in your daily life or would like to re-energize your ongoing actions, this 5-Day Pathway will help you take meaningful steps towards making your corner of the world a bit better and brighter for yourself and others.

Help create a ripple of gratefulness felt throughout our beautiful, hurting world.

This 5-day, self-paced journey offers:

Practices to help you respond to your life and the world with intention and purpose

Daily reflections to help you discover your unique expression of gratefulness and begin taking action

Tangible tools to help you take a stand for what you value

Poetry, video, essays, and music to enhance your exploration

Research exploring how living gratefully leads to both personal and collective transformation

If the cost of registration is not achievable, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Pathway Overview

Delivered as a 5-day series of emails, our Pathways provide guidance, inspiration, and practices to help you cultivate a more grateful life. They are self-paced and yours to keep. Each day includes an introduction, inspiring resources, daily practice, reflection prompts, and supporting research.

A revolutionary spirit begins with remembering what you love about the world. It is your gratitude and awe of the world’s abundant gifts that empowers you to face and respond purposefully to the world’s losses and sorrows.

A revolutionary spirit comes alive through imagination and belief in possibility. It depends on an expansive perspective and the courage to work toward a future that is still unwritten.

A revolutionary spirit is born from and sustained by community. In turn, it inspires care and action on behalf of the collective good. It prioritizes connection and belonging to one another and to all of life.

A revolutionary spirit is enhanced and emboldened through play — play as both an activity and as a mindset or way of responding to the world. Play can take many forms and has an outsize capacity to build bridges, heal relationships, and even shake the foundations of power.

A revolutionary spirit born from gratefulness resists the pull of violence, greed, and othering that pervade public life. It requires a reorientation around the life-giving values of non-violence, generosity, and the enjoyment and respect of differences — values that strengthen the soul muscle necessary to make your unique contribution to the world.