As the creator and director of the Asha Vahishta Initiative (AVI), let me introduce you to this multiphase project to reconceptualize diasporic faith and fellowship in the 21st century. The AVI operates from the Ontario Zoroastrian Community Foundation (OZCF) in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Our anjuman has a project to create an atash kadeh. A working "Articles of Faith” articulates the vision/character/goals/operation of the AVI, moving forward.
A congregational transformational-education project forms the basis of AVI. It is the Asha Vahishta Seminar Series (AVSS) with its different phases: Phase one has mainly been educative-informative (interrogating identity, faith, fellowship, diaspora, rationale for religious expression).......