Department
Multi-Faith Centre
We provide an inclusive space for you to engage in community, where you can learn, grow and explore diverse cultural and spiritual perspectives.
THE STUDENT LIFE ESCALATION PROCESS
If you have a concern about a student service located on the St. George Campus, your first step is to talk to the Director of the service.
If your concern has not been resolved after taking this step, your second step should be to contact the Executive/Senior Director of the service.
We provide an inclusive space for you to engage in community, where you can learn, grow and explore diverse cultural and spiritual perspectives.
Build friendships, explore holistic wellbeing, engage in self-exploration.
Explore mindfulness, meditation and yoga.
Discover the resource library, religious diversity training and workshops by request.
Sign up for the Multi-Faith Centre newsletter and join the Multi-Faith Centre Facebook group.
Annual workshops and events where students can further their understanding of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and how to challenge hate
Learn more about Challenging Anti-Semitism and IslamophobiaExplore how various art forms can help support social, emotional, spiritual and intellectual wellbeing.
Learn more about Create & ConnectExplore how spirituality plays a role in personal transformations, wellbeing, community and relationships.
Learn more about Empowering Choice: Spiritual IdentitiesJoin the Multi-Faith Centre for a variety of programming that looks at the intersections of gender justice and faith.
Learn more about Exploring Gender JusticeFind a nurturing communal space, staffed by caring peer supporters and/or chaplains, in a safe environment to seek solace and connect with others. Drop in to talk, reflect, say a prayer and find a moment of silence.
Learn more about Global Communities of CareThe Global Contemplative Traditions series is a half-day retreat on campus.
Learn more about Global Contemplative TraditionsAn informal mutual support group for students who have experienced a death or are experiencing anticipatory grief.
Learn more about Grief Support GroupProvides financial support for student group initiatives that create opportunities for critical and respectful exploration of religious and spiritual questions
Learn more about Heart Works FundJoin Interfaith Friendship Circles to take mini-trips to local sites of worship and engage in interfaith work.
Learn more about Interfaith Friendship CirclesGain religious and cultural fluency to better understand and work with diverse faith communities in the workplace, socially and beyond.
Learn more about Interfaith Leadership CertificateJoin the Multi-Faith Centre to try new foods and learn about their significance, engage in interfaith dialogue and connect with the U of T community.
Learn more about Interfaith MealsWatch films highlighting a diverse array of faith traditions and experiences.
Learn more about Interfaith Movies & ConnectionsThe MindFIT Student Facilitator Training Program prepares students to facilitate mindfulness meditation for their peers.
Learn more about MindFIT Student Facilitator-In-Training ProgramMindfulness meditation and mindful yoga drop-in classes run Monday to Friday. Join our team of experienced facilitators to try this ancient practice that helps you relax, focus your attention and improve your mood.
Learn more about Mindful Moments: Meditation & YogaWe invite applications from graduate students for a $4000 research fellowship that will be awarded for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Learn more about Multi-Faith Centre Research FellowshipThe Student Advisory Committee provides the director of the Multi-Faith Centre with advice about programming, services, policies and initiatives for students.
Learn more about Multi-Faith Centre Student Advisory CommitteeExplore your identity and telling your story through layered creative expressions of writing, selfies and video recordings.
Learn more about Our StoriesQueer Spiritual Spaces centers and celebrates queer and trans and faith communities through one-on-one support, referrals and communal multi-faith spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ students who want to explore spirituality.
Learn more about Queer Spiritual Spaces: Peer Support ProgramDiscover ways to explore identities and relationships through shared reading.
Learn more about Soul Care Book Club SeriesJoin spaces that explore the complex experiences of grief.
Learn more about Transformations: Grief WorkLearn about emerging scholarship on topics that fall within the broader framework of how religions and spirituality is understood in society.
Learn more about Virtual Fireside ChatsJoin Wellness Wednesdays at the Multi-Faith Centre for drop-in and registered activities that support your social, emotional, physical, mental, cultural and spiritual wellbeing.
Learn more about Wellness WednesdaysJoin us at the Multi-Faith Centre for several events as part of United Nation’s annual World Interfaith Harmony Week.
Learn more about World Interfaith Harmony WeekReligious Diversity & Inclusivity Training workshops are an introduction to religious literacy and its role in higher education.
Learn more about FACULTY & STAFF: Religious Diversity & Inclusivity TrainingJoin others to connect and pray for healing for all those impacted by the violence and war in the Middle East.
Learn more about Open Palms: Monthly Jewish-Muslim Prayer SpaceOur team supports the spiritual well-being of students, staff and faculty in order to increase our understanding of and respect for religious beliefs and practices. It does so by providing opportunities for members of the community to engage in questions of meaning, purpose and identity and to reflect, worship, contemplate, teach and learn, read and study, celebrate, mourn, engage in dialogue and interact on a daily basis.
569 Spadina Crescent, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7
416-946-3120
multi.faith@utoronto.ca
Hours:
Monday – Friday, 8:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.
To foster community, inclusive space, learning, and growth through diverse personal, cultural, and spiritual perspectives and practices.
That every student engages meaningfully with diverse communities, including spiritual, religious and non-religious, to find a sense of meaning, place and self-awareness.
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