Celebrating a Year of Connection in Our BIPOC Meditation Sangha
Our weekly BIPOC meditation sangha, led by Kaira Jewel Lingo and Marisela Gomez, has created a real community over the past year and a half.
A new partnership to support Congressional staffers
The Garrison Institute is pleased to be partnering with the House Center for Well-Being, offering Congressional staffers tools and skills to build resilience
Remembering E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy
These two giants of heart and mind helped change the world — and inspired so much of our work at the Garrison Institute.
The Intersection of Philanthropy and Decolonization
To Edgar Villanueva, wealth is a constructed concept that lies at the heart of some of our most severe problems.
Re-committing Ourselves to the Land
A powerful experience in the Colorado mountains helped guide Tony Cisneros, our new Pathways to Planetary Health program director
Seeking Solace: Attendance is up at this New York meditative retreat in Garrison
The Garrison Institute has been gradually re-opening to physically distanced in-person retreats. Participants of recent retreats including Compassion Meditation for an Aching World – A Dharma Gates Retreat with Miles Bukiet in July and Unplugged: A Sound and Yoga Retreat in August shared a bit about their experience in an article featured in The Journal News. The below excerpt recounts an…
Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves
The Garrison Institute Forum on Pathways to Planetary Health will host Dr. Sam Myers, MD, MPH on Thursday, August 6 at 2:00pm EDT. Dr. Myers is the Founding Director of Planetary Health Alliance. Garrison Institute Co-founder Jonathan F. P. Rose will interview Dr. Myers about the rise of the field of Planetary Health, as well as his new book, Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves.
Forum: “The Inner and Outer Work of Radical Healing in Our Times” with Rhonda Magee & Angel Acosta
As our world and nation continue to face tragedy and difficult questions, we are called together to hold space for emerging consciousness and radical healing. We continue The Garrison Institute Forum with a conversation between Rhonda Magee, Law Professor and Mindfulness Expert, and Dr. Angel Acosta, Contemplative Scholar-Practitioner, moderated by Garrison Institute CEO Jonathan Wiesner. Magee and Acosta began by…