Because faith was never meant to be black and white
Thanks for your interest in
Grey Space!
Please visit our new website: alisonmoscoso.com/grey-space
Grey Space offers an online communal context where people can explore their spirituality and reckon with any questions or pain they hold tied to their faith of origin. We gather without a theological agenda, meaning there is no pressure to arrive at certain answers or stay within a particular faith tradition. Our intention is simply to notice what our lives are revealing about our evolving beliefs as a way of coming home to our own embodied theology. The hope is that healing and growth will naturally emerge as we are in community, sharing our experiences, perspectives, and questions freely without fear of judgment.
New Cohort Launching March 13! Register now below
What to Expect
This online cohort will largely be an experience of intentional reflection and conversation in the context of community. We will gather for 12 sessions, each 1.5hours long, over the course of 6 months, learning from one another and from our own lives as we go. We will move through a cohesive arc that mirrors the healing process, by grounding ourselves in resilience practices, recognizing and naming harm, mourning our losses, exploring our own understandings of God, noticing our longings, and imagining a new way forward.
Each session will introduce a new topic. For some sessions, you will receive a question in advance to consider and we will share our reflections in our time together. Other sessions will include a brief time of learning a new framework paired with discussion and reflection of that topic. You will always know what’s coming next and you will always have the option to participate through listening if you do not want to share.
Meet your facilitator
Alison Moscoso has wandered in and out of contemplative, charismatic, evangelical, and progressive streams of Christianity, as she continually seeks the ever-expansive love of God. Because of her experiences as a spiritual wanderer and as a bicultural Ecuadorian American, Alison cares deeply about creating spaces of belonging that are big enough for people’s whole selves. She brings to this cohort her experience as a certified spiritual director and the training she’s had in Movement Chaplaincy, Strategies for Trauma Awareness & Resilience (Levels 1+2), Foundations for Healing Religious Trauma, and Circle Processes. Alison’s happy place is being outside, especially if it involves a hammock or a hike..
Jake
“Grey Space has been the most life- giving community for me over the past year. When I joined, I was deep in faith-deconstruction mode. Sharing those intimate spiritual details with people on similar journeys was deeply legitimizing, and being regularly smothered with love and wisdom by them was deeply relieving. Joining this group was certainly an inflection point in the exhilarating spiritual upswing I've experienced in the past year. ”
Annie
Grey Space has been transformative for me. Such a safe, inclusive, welcoming space to bring my full self & ask all the hard questions that other faith-oriented spaces often turn away from.
Testimonials
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A new cohort of Grey Space will be launching this spring We will meet Wednesdays at 5:30pm PT/ 6:30pm MT/ 7:30pm CT/ 8:30pm ET. The dates are as follows:
March 13 & 27
April 10 & 24
May 8 & 22
June 12 & 26
July 10 & 24
August 7 & 21
Due to the holidays this isn’t quite an every other week rhythm, so you may want to mark the individual dates down on your calendar.
We will meet online through zoom in order to make this space accessible to folks all across the world.
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Each call does build on the other, so I strongly encourage you to be present for as many as possible. However, I understand that life is full and often unexpected so if you miss a couple sessions, that’s not a problem. If you can already tell that you will have to miss more than two sessions, I would encourage you to wait until our next cohort to join.
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If you ‘d like to learn more about the structure, content, and commitments of Grey Space, or have any questions at all, I’d be happy to either send you information by email or set up a time to meet with you! I know that trusting a space like this is a risk, especially if you’ve had adverse religious experiences in the past, so I want to do everything in my power to honor your courage and support you in your process of discerning whether to join. Either fill out the form below, or contact me at alison.moscoso@gmail.com
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The suggested donation for Grey Space is $180, which breaks down to $15/session. This also will cover optional one-on-one’s with me.
Money should never be a barrier to receiving spiritual care. If you cannot afford this rate, please simply note it in your registration and we can work out a solution, be it pay as we go, full scholarship, or sliding scale.
If you would like to and are able to contribute more than $180 in order to make Grey Space accessible for someone else, you are welcome to do so.
Upon registering, you will receive more information about payment.
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Anyone who wants to earnestly unpack their experiences and uncover the spiritual/emotional realities within their deconstruction/reconstruction alongside other curious explorers will find belonging here. No matter where you are in your journey or what conclusions you come to, whether you’ve left faith, love Jesus, left church, still go to church, don’t believe in God, adopted a new religion, or are spiritually curious, this is a space for you.
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Each person, upon committing to participating Grey Space, must also agree to our community commitments and will receive a detailed version. Here is the abbreviated version:
Honor people’s journey
Be fully present
Respond with empathy and compassion
Center your own experience
Practice perspective-taking
Affirm each other’s belovedness & identity
Get curious
Respect double confidentialityIf you’d like to see the more detailed version before registering, you may request the commitments below.
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Grey Space approaches our journey together and the process of deconstruction/reconstruction from a trauma-informed, spiritual formation perspective. Being trauma-informed, in this case, means that grounding exercises will be a part of how we gather, the structure of the group is designed to support your healing while also being flexible to change based on your input, and everyone will be encouraged to honor their own needs and attend to their bodily experience. This is not therapy and all are encouraged to seek a therapist for any trauma work.
A spiritual formation perspective, in this case, means that reflection questions and our own experiences, not lectures, will be our teachers. For example, one week we will reflect on the prompt, “Tell me about the God you don’t believe in,” and notice what our reflections show us about our evolving beliefs. A spiritual formation perspective also means that we will create space for and honor what our intuition/spirit speaks.
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Yes! If you can’t make these dates, but are interested in joining a future cohort, simply register below and I will be sure to let you know when the next cohort launches.
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To register, fill out the form below, or email alison.moscoso@gmail.com. I’ll set up a meeting with you and we can go from there!
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Soul Search is an incredible podcast that uses the power of story to unpack spirituality and our common humanity. My dear friend and colleague, Seth Dickson, created Soul Search and has graciously given Grey Space a page on his platform.
