At the Garrison Institute, you are much more than your job. Our career openings provide the opportunity for you to join a team of people who bring their heart, mind, and spirit to what they do each day. Our team embodies the spirit of hospitality and openness we provide to the thousands of people who engage with the Institute, either in person while participating at one of our retreats or events, or online while reading insights and reflections on our blog.
When you work at the Garrison Institute, you are able to sit in on an extensive range of events, retreats, and workshops. You’ll encounter some of the world’s most respected contemplative and spiritual teachers, brilliant scientists, and social change agents who are all working to build a more compassionate and resilient future for all. Everyone who works at the Institute can also participate in our weekly community sit and tai chi and qigong class. Headquartered in a beautifully renovated monastery right on the Hudson River, the Institute encourages all its staff members to connect deeply with nature, as well as our fellow humans.
Employment Opportunities
Director of Bioregional Resilience (Hybrid)
The Mid-Hudson Valley Bioregion faces intensifying climate impacts, biodiversity loss, rising inequality, increased polarization, a deglobalized economy, and stressed public infrastructure. We see an opportunity to translate these challenges into a tangible, place-based bioregional resilience strategy. To address these issues, the initiative will map the region’s natural, food, energy, housing, social health, education and economic systems to understand how they can be better interconnected, and support programs and processes that weave them together. This work will integrate the Institute’s Pathways to Planetary Health framework with its Contemplative-based Resilience Training. We are seeking to hire a Director of Bioregional Resilience to grow the resilience capacity of the region, identifying, connecting with, and building relations with the key community organizations and participants in the bioregion, introducing resilient training systems and helping to grow it as a generative field.