The cherry tree pathway

Ordination is not simply the end of this path, it’s a beginning.

After two years of deep personal development, spiritual exploration, and guided practice, you’ll be invited to step into ministry in a way that reflects your heart, your values, and your unique gifts. You’ll be ordained as an interfaith minister: someone who serves from love, listens deeply, and honours the sacred in all people, paths, and places.

“You come in curious… and leave feeling like you’ve come home — to yourself, and to a purpose that’s quietly been waiting for you all along.”

Ministry doesn’t always mean standing at the front of a room or leading a service. For some, it means creating beautiful, bespoke ceremonies or offering spiritual companionship. For others, it’s found in chaplaincy, coaching, community care, sacred activism, or creative expression. It may live in your art, your garden, your poetry, your parenting. It may evolve over time, as you do. Ordination with OneSpirit is about stepping more deeply into your own truth and service. After training, some students may go on to:

• Engage in chaplaincy or community care, offering presence in hospitals, prisons, hospices, universities, or social justice movements

• Offer spiritual accompaniment through one-to-one listening spaces, soul mentoring, or spiritual counselling

• Create ceremonies and rituals such as weddings, funerals, memorials, baby blessings, coming-of-age ceremonies, house blessings, and other life transitions

• Offer coaching or facilitation for individuals and groups seeking transformation, connection, and deeper purpose

• Express ministry creatively, through writing, storytelling, poetry, visual arts, music, dance, and nature-based practices

• Engage in sacred activism, working towards environmental justice, human rights, compassionate leadership, and building bridges across divides

And beyond this, the pathways are incredibly varied.  Some students join us as experienced celebrants looking to deepen their practice. Others come with no clear destination in mind, just a longing for connection, authenticity, or meaning in a changing world. Still others arrive because they are unsettled by the state of the world, the division, the disconnection, and want to be part of creating something more healing, more human, more whole. For them, this training becomes a form of spiritual or social activism, a quiet revolution rooted in compassion…

Whatever brings you here, and whatever shape your ministry takes, you will leave with tools, community, and insight to make a difference, in your life, and in the lives you touch.

OneSpirit’s curriculum is dynamic and participatory. While there are key skills every future minister must develop, such as finding and voicing your authentic presence, deep listening, sacred witnessing, and ministering across diverse communities, how you explore and embody these skills is uniquely yours. Each class follows a strong, supportive framework, but the way the journey unfolds is co-created by the individuals within it. Your creativity, your questions, your passions, they all help shape the experience. Every student adds something new, something that can’t be taught, only discovered. You can expect:

• A strong framework covering essential ministerial skills (voicing presence, sacred listening, ceremony creation, working across traditions)

• A dynamic learning journey shaped by the energy and needs of each cohort

• Space for poetry, storytelling, silence, ritual, art, movement, nature connection, and deep inquiry

• A focus on experiential, creative, and embodied learning — not traditional lectures or exams

• An environment where accessibility and inclusion are woven into every aspect

We are deeply committed to making this training accessible for all learners. If you’re neurodivergent, use assistive tech like a screen reader, or need another kind of support, we’ll work with you to ensure the learning experience feels meaningful, manageable, and welcoming. Our online classroom is designed with good colour contrast, full alt text, and compatibility with screen readers and page-reading tools. Whether you learn best through movement, voice notes, creative expression, or classic writing, you are welcome here, just as you are. If you need support, just ask, we’re always open to finding the best way forward together.

Prefer more detail? Download the Cherry Tree Pathway Information Packet here.

No two students arrive in the same place in their journey, and that’s exactly as it should be. Some come with years of exploration behind them; others are stepping into something entirely new. Some feel rooted in a spiritual tradition; others have let old beliefs fall away and are searching for something more honest, more alive. Wherever you begin, what matters most is the journey that unfolds.

You’ll be welcomed into a living, breathing community where diversity of experience is celebrated, and where curiosity, courage, and authenticity are the only true prerequisites. Here, joy and challenge are companions. Growth is both tender and transformational. You’ll deepen your connection to your own truth and form lasting bonds with others who are learning, questioning, and becoming, just like you. There is no one right way to engage with this journey. There is only your way, and a community ready to meet you in it.

Curious to hear from our students? You’ll find inspiring video testimonials, honest interviews, and heartfelt quotes that offer a glimpse into what it’s really like to journey through the Cherry Tree Pathway. Explore their stories, experiences, and reflections, in their own words and voices — by clicking here.

Gina, Current Student

I am a curious open-minded seeker of what it is to be a human. It’s been an internal journey of self-inquiry to explore the many layers of complexities & parts to discover what is my ‘true authentic self’. With much of this curiosity surrounding that which cannot be seen, or fully explained.

Having undertaken a variety of spiritual training, together with a study of the psychological aspects of human development, I felt I wanted a platform from which they all could be somehow incorporated. On reading OneSpirit’s Core Beliefs this resonated with an opportunity for me to delve deeper into my questioning & bring all these fragmented strands of my learning into one cohesive whole.

Hara, Current Student

I am a shamanic sound healer, tutor for the College of Sound Healing and Transpersonal psychologist. I love to offer ceremonies for my community and run a weekly Sacred Healing Dance group. I feel more connection to Spirit, to the earth and our deepest soul selves is imperative to help our species protect the earth and to survive and thrive in the challenging times to come.

I decided to undertake this ministry training to widen my skills, expand my knowledge and experience and give me a better vehicle to serve the Divine and support people.

Claire, Current Student

I live in England with my dog Scooby where I work as a celebrant – mainly funerals – and I also have a holistic healing business offering Soul Plan readings, Soul Transformation Therapy, Reiki, and Qigong. I have one son and one grandson who I love spending as much time with as possible. I enjoy walking, reading, music and cricket!

I am a student of A Course in Miracles and part of Robert & Hollie Holden’s Everyday Miracles group. Hollie mentioned the course a year or so ago and I felt called to investigate further! After attending the online introductory meetings I decided it would not only benefit my work as a celebrant but also (and probably more importantly) my own ‘journey’.