Special Olympics chair, speakers to address ‘unitive consciousness’ at Aspen Chapel

The Aspen Chapel will be hosting 11 speakers to address the path to a “unitive consciousness” on Friday, June 6, and Saturday, June 7, following the Aspen Chapel’s successful February forum “How do we respond to the times that we are living through?”

The forum has had over 14,000 viewers, according to the Minister at the Aspen Chapel Nicholas Vesey. This weekend’s event will include Tim Shriver, the chair of the Special Olympics, and Marianne Williamson, an author and spiritual advisor. 

Vesey plans to address the question of, “How do we work together to make the world a better place?” 

“We can work at waking up together and joining together and having a positive collective intention, basically in response to all of the political and environmental challenges that we’re all facing right now,” speaker Susan Aposhyan said.

Attendees will have the opportunity to break into smaller groups to share their opinions and converse and then give feedback to a larger panel that will discuss the takeaways from the small groups.

“In Roman times, a forum was a place where people spoke together,” Vesey said. “People walked in the forum, they spoke together in the forum, and the forum is a place where people have a voice and they can make a contribution.”

According to Vesey, the chapel invited speakers they have worked with over the past 10 years, as well as people who were recommended to them. Because of the community they have grown, they are able to draw in influential speakers in the spiritual and progressive thinking world.

“We decided to create a sort of positive thing where we were looking at, ‘How do we actually take a step forward in what we’re doing?'” he said.

In-person tickets are sold out, but free online tickets can still be reserved at aspenwisdom.org.