United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week 2022
OJI:SDA’s Founder & Executive Director, Tahila Mintz joined faith and spiritual leaders on the 10th anniversary of interfaith dialogue
United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week
The United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week is an annual event observed during the first week of February each year, after the UN General Assembly designation in 2010. This year honored Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021), highlighting his commitment to Interfaith initiatives - “My humanity is bound up in yours, as we can only be human together”
OJI:SDA’ Representation
During the 2022 commemoration of this event, the OJI:SDA’ Founder & Executive Director, Tahila Mintz was invited to speak at the virtual meeting of faith and spiritual leaders, which this year focused on the COVID-19 pandemic which has caused challenges worldwide.
This Year's Interfaith Theme: Faith and Spiritual Leadership to Combat Stigma and Conflict During Pandemic Recovery.
During Tahila’s presentation she was able to focus the audience and dialogue around the importance of having a spiritual connection to water.
She took the audience through a moment of reflection focused on gratitude for the blessing of water.
Given this platform, Tahila was also able to highlight the issues of Human Rights and Water Rights.
The video below highlights the segment in which Tahila took the audience through a process of creating a deeper personal awareness of water.
Tahila offered this practice to connect with water and support your own healing of mind, body and spirit.
Inhale and exhale deeply while holding a cup of water.
You can hold it to your heart or look at it.
Tell the water you love it.
Thank it for clearing your body of the toxins and balancing your mind and emotions.
Say whatever other gratitude’s and prayers you want.
Then drink the water.
Feel it running through your body, though your bloodstream. Feel that love.
“Thank you Tahila Mintz who caused me now to look at water so much differently than I have always looked at it. I have always just wanted to have clean water. But now I am looking at it in a spiritual relationship with water. It is something that I am beginning to understand from her perspective.”
OJI:SDA’ Sustainable Indigenous Futures
The United Nations event theme was ”Faith and Spiritual Leadership to Combat Stigma and Conflict During Pandemic Recovery.” During Tahila’s presentation she was able to focus the audience and dialogue around the importance of having a spiritual connection to water and Human and Water Rights.
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