Initiatives That Bring Our Mission to Life
Our initiatives bring spirituality to life through meaningful programs that nurture connection, compassion, and understanding. From honoring the sacred in nature to practicing compassion in action, each initiative invites you to explore what it means to live with purpose and spiritual depth.
Reconnect with the sacred in the natural world. Through stories, science, and spiritual insight, we explore the deep bond between animals, the earth, and the human spirit.
Spirituality is real, rooted in the brain, and active from birth. This initiative invites people of all backgrounds to explore meaning, joy, and connection through the intersection of faith, art, and community.
Compassion is at the heart of spirituality. This initiative brings people together through events and partnerships that reflect the justice, inclusion, and shared humanity that flow forth from compassion.
Join our Next Event
From concerts and intergenerational dialogues to spiritual gatherings, our events create space to explore, reflect, and connect. Each one is an invitation to come together across traditions and perspectives and experience the shared humanity at the heart of it all.
Take Heart Now with Dr. Jessica Spence Moss
Take Heart Now with Dr. Jessica Spence Moss
Join us for Take Heart Now! as Jessica shares what she’s learned from more than a decade of interfaith work and youth leadership development — and how creating spaces for young people to listen, connect, and lead can strengthen all of us.
Integrating Spirituality in your Daily Life
Integrating Spirituality in your Daily Life
This 90-minute virtual workshop is designed to support our young people and the people who work with them.
The Annual Dinner
The Annual Dinner
“The Courage to be Kind" Join us for our annual celebration as we come together in healing, strength, and spiritual solidarity to meet the challenges before us.
Take Heart Now with Ann Smith
Take Heart Now with Ann Smith
Ann Smith is a spiritual leader and community builder who has dedicated her life to creating sacred spaces for healing, connection, and women’s empowerment.
Bringing people together. Unleashing the Spirit. Embracing the Sacred. Transforming the World
Updates and Stories
Read and watch the latest from our community, including event highlights, messages from our team, and stories that bring our work to life.
“Every Child’s Life is Sacred”: A Concert for Humanity
with Yuval Ron and Diverse Faith Leaders https://vimeo.com/917531491 In they came, wearing scarves and robes and head coverings, representing the diverse communities of faith and spirituality throughout Southern California. Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Christians: Catholic,...
The Dance of Life: Pagan Spirituality
Flowers bloomed and the May weather was fittingly beautiful as we arrived for the Dance of Life Maypole Celebration. As we came in, we chose a hair garland or “antennae” from many brought by Rev. Angie Buchanan, the days’ guide. Dr. Gwynne Guibord welcomed us...
The Take Heart Now Online Series
The Take Heart Now Online Series is an ongoing program of short presentations with widely diverse individual faith leaders and people of deep spirituality sharing what they actually do to get through the tough times we are all encountering today.
An Idea is Born
The Take Heart Project began as a powerful realization that each day, we encounter emotional challenges that can fill us with anger, resentment,...
Rabbi Neil Comess Daniels: Take Heart Now
In this inspiring installment of Take Heart Now, Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels offers a heartfelt blend of music, wisdom, and spiritual reflection....
Bishop John Harvey Taylor: Take Heart Now
In this inspiring installment of our Take Heart Now series, we were honored to feature the Right Reverend John Harvey Taylor, a lifelong...
Cheryl Romanowski: Take Heart Now
Cheryl Romanowski’s spiritual journey eventually led her to the Baha’i faith. As a Baha’i educator she co-facilitates Ruhi study circles and leads...
Explore the World’s Faith Traditions
The Guibord Center offers resources that share the sacred texts, values, and practices of diverse faiths through the voices of those who live them. Grounded in spirituality and guided by lived experience, these pages invite deeper understanding, respect, and connection across traditions.
The Heart Behind The Guibord Center
The Guibord Center exists to make spirituality accessible, inclusive, and deeply connected to everyday life. We bring people together across faiths and backgrounds through gatherings, relationships, and experiences that honor the sacred in all people.
Founded by the Rev. Dr. Gwynne Guibord, and a small group of colleagues, our work is grounded in her vision of friendship, belonging, and honoring the sacred in every person.
Today, we carry that vision forward through inclusive gatherings, meaningful partnerships, and a commitment to making space for all.