Inspired by the grassroots women's spirituality and feminist movements around the world, the Women's Spirituality Program at CIIS is a learning community that reclaims women's spiritual experience, cultural history, and multiple ways of knowing. A primary professional goal is to empower women to participate ever more fully and creatively in the global culture of the 21st century. Thus, the program encourages embodied scholarship which encompasses feeling, imagination, expressive and cognitive skills, spiritual insight, and social and cultural activism.
Creativity is nurtured through the visual, literary, performing, and ritual arts.
And an appreciation of diversity is fostered through a multicultural approach that includes the experiences of women through history and across geographical boundaries.