Interfaith. Interspiritual. Interspecies.
Join us for our October Sunday Service on October 18th, 2026 at 4:00 pm ET with our Special Spiritual Guest, Corey Wrenn
Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity.
She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee.
She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (Routledge 2026), Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (Bloomsbury 2027), Vegan Sociology (Manchester University Press, forthcoming), and Animals in Polar Exploration A Critical History of Speciesism, Colonialism, and Conquest for a Sustainable Multispecies Future (University of Exeter Press, forthcoming).
about us
The Compassion Consortium is a 501(c)(3) non-sectarian support center dedicated to increasing human compassion for other species and addressing human-animal conflicts through spiritually based programs and educational services.
Our community includes Vegans, Vegetarians, animal rights advocates, shelter/sanctuary workers, wildlife rehabbers, and others who care about animals, habitats, and the planet as a whole.
Join us for Sunday Services, book & film talks, guidance for living a spiritual and ethical vegan lifestyle, and community connection. We also host the Animal Chaplaincy Training program, which prepares community-based non-sectarian chaplains to serve individuals, businesses, and local communities facing human-animal challenges.
Channel your passion for animals and the planet into a caring and supportive vocation
Animal chaplains provide support for both animals and humans by using ritual, ceremony, and the tools of spiritual companionship. Our training program helps you fulfill your heart’s call to honor and celebrate the lives of all species, including how to companion them through joys and challenges.
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Our program is non-denominational and does not require students to have a specific religious or spiritual outlook. It will, though, prepare you to work with a diverse set of belief systems, so that you can support people regardless of their own outlook.
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Program is offered annually. Our next cohort begins classes in September! Contact us with any questions or schedule a consult with our program director by clicking below.
Animal Loss Group
Not every animal-related loss is the same—and neither is the support people need.
The free Animal Loss Group meets every second Thursday of the month from:
8:00–9:00 p.m. ET
7:00–8:00 p.m. CT
6:00–7:00 p.m. MT
5:00–6:00 p.m. PT
Starts 10/8/26
When you attend, you can choose the focus group that most closely reflects the loss you are carrying:
• Animal Companion (“Pet”) Loss
• Shelter Animal Loss
• Wildlife Rehabilitation Loss
• Farm Sanctuary Animal Loss
• Extinction/Planetary Loss (Including eco-grief)
Each focus group brings together people navigating a similar kind of loss and is supported by an animal chaplain facilitator educated in the distinctive needs of that area.
Come talk, cry, grieve, remember—and be understood.
The Compassion Consortium, in conjunction with Vegan Meditation, is offering a weekly online peaceful half-hour of vegan-oriented meditation and mindful sharing.
We’ll meditate together in silence, then share brief thoughts on a topic related to compassion, mindfulness or veganism. Our aim through this practice is to cultivate greater internal peace and presence, and to bring greater mindfulness and compassion to our interactions with the external world and all its inhabitants. David Simon, the Chair of the Compassion Consortium Advisory Board, will host each week.
We meet Monday evenings at 6pm Pacific / 7pm MT / 8pm CT / 9pm ET for 45 minutes every first and third Monday of each month.
Animal Activist Online Support Group
Join the Animal Activist Online Support group to discuss burnout, self-care, compassion fatigue, infighting, anger, grief, depression, communicating with non-activists, and other activist concerns. Participate in this free, confidential support group by phone, smart phone, or computer on the 4th Thursday Every Month,
8 - 9 p.m. Eastern Time.
Facilitated by Animal Chaplain Lisa Levinson and hosted by In Defense of Animals.
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Register for free monthly Animal Activist Online Support Groups: www.idausa.org/supportgroups
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