Fusilli with Peas, Squash Blossoms, Fresh Cheese, and Bronze Fennel
We think of June as the height of spring, but...
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Ali Shuster
Greeting is Meeting: Haiku and the Art of Mindful Animism
Two decades ago, at a colloquium on haiku poetry, I found myself sitting next to a Japanese poet during a lecture by a psychologist on “Haiku and the Practice of Mindfulness.” In chatting with him beforehand, I noticed that he understood English perfectly well but struggled a bit to speak it.
New Director of Bioregional Resilience Program
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Lambert as the Director of Bioregional Resilience, a new program within our Pathways to Planetary Health initiative. Bioregional Resilience is the capacity of communities in a shared ecological region to adapt, collaborate, and thrive in the face of environmental, economic, and social change. Our program focuses on the Mid-Hudson Valley bioregion, which Mary has been dedicated to for decades living in the area.
Roots of Renewal: Ecological Civilization in China and the Confluence of Tradition and Modernity
A Garrison Institute Webinar Series on...
Spicy Spring Vegetable Curry
To please a large crowd with some folks who eat meat and some who don’t, we make vegetarian curry and separately braise meat with similar flavorings to serve on the side.
Conscious Change Forum Event Recap
The inaugural Conscious Change Forum hosted by Garrison Institute’s Spirituality & Social Change initiative and the Conscious Change Collective brought together more than 100 people from at least 10 countries, including change leaders, funders, spiritual activists, and leading practitioners working at the intersection of inner work, spirituality, and social change. We build upon a long history of nonviolent and spiritually based movements for justice, faith lineages that have invested deeply in societal wellbeing, and Indigenous traditions where the spiritual and communal are inseparable.
From Fragmentation to Integration: Rethinking Leadership for a New Economic Era
On October 17, the Garrison Institute’s...
Finding Wholeness & Healing Within Heartbreak
Heartbreak finds us all, there is no escaping it. No matter how righteously we try to live, wounding can show up in forms we recognize and forms we don’t. We inherit the pain of human relationships and other unintegrated trauma channeled through the violence of world systems, generational trauma, family breakups, fractured friendships, and the tender emotional imprints left in us from intimate partnerships.
Cultivating Courageous Wholeness
What does it mean to lead with wholeness in a time of deep division? This conversation moved from personal practice to organizational culture and to the wider civic sphere, making a simple but timely case: inner work is public work.
How to Practice Effortless Mindfulness
Effortless mindfulness is the letting go of attention, thought and present moments in order to open to an already awake awareness that is naturally focused, compassionate and non-conceptually intelligent in the Now.
My Dark Companion: Grief
Sometimes we are supposed to be falling rather than standing upright. I am thinking of the life cycle of a leaf. A portion of a leaf’s life span consists of being firmly rooted on the branch of a tree, while at some point in time, the season comes where the leaf falls from the tree to the earth. If I could put myself in the experience of the leaf for a moment, I imagine the liminal moment between the leaf being firmly attached to the branch and the leaf finding itself unfastened by this uncontrollable gravitational pull to the earth, a moment of grief and fear. I understand our human lives to be similar to that of a leaf.