The Alchemy of Apology explores apology as a transformative spiritual discipline capable of personal healing, relational repair, and collective liberation. While many traditions teach prayer or meditation, few offer guidance in the sacred work of apology. In a society marked by denial of historical harm and unspoken family trauma, authentic apology becomes a pathway out of shame, rage, and disconnection. It is a spiritual medicine that frees us from the psychic burden of our actions and can liberate those we have harmed. Using The Apology as a central text, students will learn a four-step process for practicing meaningful apology: investigating the personal and systemic roots of harm; naming actions with clarity and specificity; understanding the emotional and spiritual impact on the harmed; and taking full responsibility through genuine repentance, repair, and transformation.

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Dates & Times:

October 3 & 17, 2026
11:00 AM – 5:30 PM EST
In Person
Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

Meet the Instructor:

V (formerly Eve Ensler) is the Tony Award-winning playwright of many plays, a NY Times best-selling author, performer, and activist. Her play, The Vagina Monologues, is an Obie Award-winning, Olivier-nominated theatrical phenomenon that has been translated into 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. She is the author of numerous bestsellers, Reckoning, The Apology, In the Body of the World, and I Am an Emotional Creature. She starred on Broadway in The Good Body and Off-Broadway in the critically acclaimed In the Body of the World. She helped create That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words, a tribute to nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music in collaboration with theaters across the US. She wrote the book, co-wrote lyrics, and narrated Dear Everything-A Musical Uprising for the Earth, recently presented at BAM following its national tour. Her play, THIS IS CRAZY! premiered in October 2025 at Symphony Space and will be presented at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles in October 2026. Her film credits include The Vagina Monologues (HBO), What I Want My Words to Do to You (Executive Producer, Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award, PBS), Mad Max: Fury Road (Consultant), and City of Joy documentary (Netflix). She is the founder of V-Day, the 28-year-old global activist movement that has raised over 150 million dollars to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, girls, and the planet—and founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries, as well as a co-founder of the City of Joy, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. V was named one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and The Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.” She writes regularly for The Guardian. She holds many honorary doctorate degrees, including one from her alma mater, Middlebury College. Next up is the 30th anniversary revival of The Vagina Monologues at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre in Spring 2027, directed by Noma Dumezweni.