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Autumn 2010 Newsletter

The inaugural “Climate, Mind and Behavior” (CMB) symposium convened environmental thought and organizational leaders, together with behavioral and social scientists, and asked them to view climate change and the science surrounding it in a new way...

The Garrison Institute’s CARE (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education) program is a professional development program for K-12 teachers, incorporating contemplative tools such as mindfulness practice, caring and group awareness practices...

Diana Rose I am delighted to welcome Dr. Mary Pearl as our new CEO. Her arrival marks a new chapter in our evolution and my own departure from daily responsibility for guiding it...

The Garrison Institute’s Initiative on Contemplation and Education (ICE) works to introduce relevant contemplative techniques to educators, helping create healthy school environments conducive to children becoming responsible, productive, caring adults...

We are pleased to announce that scientist, educator and organizational leader Mary C. Pearl, Ph.D., will serve as the Garrison Institute’s new Chief Executive Officer effective August, 2010...

At the invitation of the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a.k.a. Front Line, the Garrison Institute’s Initiative on Transforming Trauma gave a one-day workshop on February 9, 2010 in Dublin, Ireland, entitled “Wellness and Resilience for Human Rights Defenders.”

One of the ways that we talk about the brain as it relates to climate change is that the brain makes maps. For example, you have a map in your brain of your own body, sitting there in the chair...

{jcomments off}{jcomments on}A newly designed and installed seven-circuit spiral labyrinth now graces the Garrison Institute grounds. The boxwood-bordered labyrinth is nestled in the former monastery’s walled garden...