Building community around climate change, inequality, social justice issues, and the dharma, while we explore together what it is to remember our own innate connection with life/the earth through the lens of the Buddha Dharma. See https://www.mtstream.org/nc-daily-schedule/2024/01/13-virtual-kirsten-rudestam-eco-dharma-course for more information.

A silent mindfulness retreat at Insight Retreat Center with alternating sitting and walking meditation, instruction, dharma talks, work meditation, and practice discussion with the teachers. Suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners. See IRC website for more information.

The Climate Wisdom Lab is a professional development program designed to help faculty and staff prepare students for sustainable engagement with climate change, structural injustice, and other systemic challenges by integrating emotional-affective pedagogy into their existing curriculum and programs. The program builds upon existing understandings of the complex psychosocial dimensions of climate change and other stressors; assesses the hidden affective implications of existing course offerings, and creates a collaborative creative process for developing innovative new offerings and teaching modules that respond to the unique demands of today’s educational environment. Presented by Kevin Gallagher, JD, Sarah Jaquette Ray, PhD, and Kirsten Rudestam, PhD.

For more information and to sign up: www.emergentresilience.com/cwltraining

This retreat will take place at Shelterwood Collective, a Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ-led community forest and retreat center, healing people and ecosystems through active stewardship and community engagement. In this three-day meditation retreat we draw from Buddhist teachings, becoming more intimate with nature in our own minds while deepening our relations with nature in the more-than-human world. In so doing, we experience the mutuality of these ways in deepening our relationship with all of life. See OGR’s website for more information and for registration.

In this retreat we join the long tradition of elders within both indigenous societies and contemplative traditions in seeking out the refuge of the wider natural world in order to become more intimate with a larger ground of belonging. We do this to fall more deeply in love with this life and to better serve life.

During our days we will weave together three threads: individual contemplative practice, community inquiry and a deepening relationship with the land. Meditation instruction will be offered around the four foundations of mindfulness alongside a range of experiential nature-based practices that complement these foundations. A significant part of the retreat will be held in silence, interspersed with periods of shared exploration through dialogue and informal time for simply being together as a small temporary community. There will also be opportunity for solo time.

This is a backcountry retreat. We will be backpacking approximately 5 miles to a basecamp, where we will spend all four nights of our retreat. As a participant, you must supply your own backpacking and camping gear, food for lunch and personal snacks. We will provide a packing list upon registration.

This retreat is offered in the spirit of generosity, co-offered by Kirsten Rudestam and Rupert Marques. We ask for a fee of $150-$300, which covers the retreat costs: food, teacher travel, supplies and incidental expenses. After the retreat there will be an opportunity for participants to practice generosity in offering financial support to the teachers.

This guided vision fast ceremony is for professionals, scientists, educators, advocates, and activists who are called to serve the vision of a better world. Bringing together a group of dynamic changemakers, the ceremony will enable participants to connect to inner and collective wisdom, separate from what no longer serves and cross the threshold to claim new ways of being that support the creation of a new, regenerative culture. See Emergent Resilience for more information.

This program offers basic Buddhist training in the wisdom and skill needed to be a Buddhist Environmental Chaplain, i.e., those who work to establish people in a healthy, compassionate, and mutually supportive relationship with the natural world. It will offer experience-based activities and contemplative practices that deepen individuals’ own relationships with the natural world, as well as provide them with skills to be spiritual caregivers, helping others (re)connect with nature and face contemporary environmental crises with wisdom and compassion.

These workshops for students of the University of California - Santa Cruz will draw from grief and empowerment work, group council practice, and non-violent communication in leading participants through an experiential arc that includes: community building and questions of belonging; being with difficult information and experiences; exploring practices of meaning, action and generosity; and imagining and co-creating tools for healing, reconciliation and interconnection.

This program will be facilitated by Kirsten Rudestam. Exact date will be provided as it becomes available.