The Sacred Science of Trees
By Fru Molnar The Garrison Institute faces a...
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Garrison Co-founder Explores Contemplation to Action on Tricycle’s Podcast
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Fruit doesn’t fall far
Here in America, we are born with unwell trees in our yards. Despite our potential, we face these living structures infected by ‘isms’ and phobias—racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and so forth.
AI, Spirituality, and What It Means to Be Human: Part II
We continue our two-part series on the Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination conference, held online October 17-18. We invited our speakers to sit with the same two questions to showcase the variety of perspectives, inquiries, and ways of knowing that will shape our conversations at the conference this fall.
AI, Spirituality, and What It Means to Be Human: Part I
As we prepare for the upcoming Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination
conference, held virtually October 17-18, we invited our speakers to sit with the same
two questions to showcase the variety of perspectives, inquiries, and ways of knowing
that will shape our conversations at the conference this fall.
The Fullness of Emptiness
Emptiness, a fundamental teaching in Mahayana Buddhism, might feel like a tough idea to chew on. It’s an insight that can feel more sobering than soothing at times, and it’s no stranger to misinterpretation.
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.
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.
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The Inner Work of System Leadership
By John Kania, Radha Ruparell, Peter Senge, and...
Love Everybody
Lovingkindness practice asks us to embrace our shared humanity with all people, but it does not require us to agree with all of their actions.
Winterlude
This particular time of year feels like nothing so much as that brief moment of stillness between inhalation and exhalation, the equilibrium point between expansion and contraction, that brief instant of stasis and silence that comes with every breath.
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Mapping the Field of Conscious Change
The Conscious Change Collective provides a new social systems map of organizations applying contemplative practice for social transformation as well as a community working toward transforming consciousness.