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SUMMARY:A Christian Meditation Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Come experience Christian Contemplative practices that enable connection with God and embodiment of His word during this overnight retreat\n  \nThis Christian Meditation retreat will explore various ancient and modern contemplative practices aimed at increasing connection with God and embodiment of His Word. Participants will prayerfully select a Biblical passage to focus on throughout the retreat. \nSpecific practices experienced at the retreat include breathing meditation\, contemplative and centering prayer\, memorization of Biblical text\, walking meditation\, visualization among others. Everyone from beginners to more experienced meditators are encouraged to join! We will also enjoy a dinner on Saturday and a breakfast on Sunday followed by a worship service to conclude the retreat. \n  \n  \nTEACHER\n  \n      \nDr. Ryan Erbe will guide participants through a series of Christian contemplative-based practices. Dr. Erbe received his PhD in Health Behavior and Human Development from Indiana University. He is currently the Director of Character Education in the Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic and an Assistant Professor in the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Department at the United States Military Academy. Dr. Erbe designs curriculum and teaches courses focused on Character Education and Psychology and conducts research on spirituality\, meditation\, emotion regulation\, resilience\, and character formation. He had led several meditation retreats at the Garrison Institute serving the community and West Point populations. Dr. Erbe is also an Adjunct Professor for the Mountain Theological Seminary where he teaches a course on counseling adolescents and served as the lead minister of the Hudson Valley Church for 4 years. He currently resides in Highland Falls\, NY with his wife Katie\, daughters Evelyn\, Vivian\, and Lilian\, and son William. \n_______ \nCOVID-19 \nThe health and safety of our guests and staff is a top priority for the Garrison Institute. To attend a retreat or event all guests\, teachers\, and staff are required to self-test (at home antigen test is acceptable) within the 48-hour window prior to arriving for a retreat on site\, and to bring a 2nd self-test kit when coming on site. We encourage everyone to self-monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 and other illnesses before your visit. If you experience symptoms or have a positive diagnosis\, please notify us immediately at events@garrisoninstitute.org We will continue to follow any COVID-19 guidelines set forth by our local officials\, New York State and the CDC.\n\n \n 
URL:https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/christian-meditation-retreat-september-2025/
LOCATION:In-Person\, 14 Mary’s Way Route 9D\, Garrison\, NY\, 10524\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wholehearted Sesshin: Summer Silent Retreat 2025
DESCRIPTION:New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care\n  \nJoin us for an eight-day intensive silent retreat focusing on rediscovering our values and living life to the fullest. \nWe each have an enormous capacity for love — a deep well from which we can draw compassion and support for ourselves and for others. Teachings on the Precepts are both simple and transformative and are an invitation to close the gaps we create between ourselves and others — to wholeheartedly wake up to ourselves and to the world around us. \nNoble Silence is observed throughout the daily schedule of sitting and walking meditation\, chanting\, dharma talks\, personal interview with a teacher\, and body practice. \n  \nSESSHIN TEACHERS\n  \nChodo Robert Campbell Sensei is a co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care – a non-profit organization that focuses on the teaching of Zen and Buddhist practice with the goal to make them more accessible to people all around the world. The center delivers contemplative approaches to care through education\, personal caregiving\, and meditation practice. Chodo is a dynamic\, grounded\, and visionary leader and teacher; he has traveled extensively throughout the U.S instructing in various institutions. Sixty-thousand people listen to his podcasts each year. His passion lies in bereavement counseling and advocating for change in the way our healthcare institutions work with the dying. Chodo is part of the core faculty for the Buddhist Track in the Master in Pastoral Care and Counseling at NYZC’s education partner\, New York Theological Seminary. He is also on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School’s Center for Integrative Medicine’s Integrative Medicine Fellowship and the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine in San Diego. \n  \nKoshin Paley Ellison Sensei\, MFA\, LMSW\, DMIN\, is an author\, Zen teacher\, Jungian psychotherapist\, and Certified Chaplaincy Educator. After many years as a chaplain and psychotherapist\, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care\, which offers contemplative approaches to care through education\, personal caregiving\, and Zen practice. Today\, New York Zen Center’s methodologies are internationally recognized—and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals. Koshin is a world renowned thought leader in contemplative care. He is the author of Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity\, Courage\, and Compassion (Balance/Hachette\, 2022); Wholehearted: Slow Down\, Help Out\, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications\, 2019) and the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications\, 2016). His work has been featured in the New York Times\, PBS\, CBS Sunday Morning\, Tricycle among other publications. He is currently on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School’s Center for Integrative Medicine’s Integrative Medicine Fellowship\, on Faculty of the Integrative Medicine Fellowship of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine\, and he is a visiting professor at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics\, of the University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston Medical School. \n  \nDorothy Dai-en Friedman Sensei: Dai-en’s spiritual journey began in the 60s when she was forced to seek help for a back injury. This event proved to be a wonderful preparation for her eventual immersion 20 years later in Buddhist Vipassana practice at Insight Meditation Center. After she established her Vipassana practice\, she then began her journey into Zen practice. Her teachers include Peter Mathiessen\, Joseph Goldstein\, Matt Flickstein\, and Maureen Stuart Roshi. Dai-en is now a Sensei at Ocean Zendo\, located on Eastern Long Island. She is honored to be invited to teach with Koshin and Chodo in the wonderful work at NYZC\, for the benefit of all beings\, as we live and die. \n  \n\nClick here to REGISTER\n  \n  \nCOVID-19\nThe health and safety of our guests and staff is a top priority for the Garrison Institute. To attend a retreat or event all guests\, teachers\, and staff are required to self-test (at home antigen test is acceptable) within the 48-hour window prior to arriving for a retreat on site\, and to bring a 2nd self-test kit when coming on site. We encourage everyone to self-monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 and other illnesses before your visit. If you experience symptoms or have a positive diagnosis\, please notify us immediately at events@garrisoninstitute.org We will continue to follow any COVID-19 guidelines set forth by our local officials\, New York State and the CDC.\n 
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SUMMARY:Healing-Centered Futures: Education\, Business\, and Technology Summit
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn a time marked by rapid transformation and profound uncertainty\, we are called to reimagine the systems that shape our lives — from how we educate and lead\, to how we build\, innovate\, and connect. \nThe Healing-Centered Futures Summit invites educators\, entrepreneurs\, technologists\, and changemakers to gather in a shared exploration: \n\nHow might healing-centered principles guide the future of education\, business\, and technology?\n  \nOver the course of three days at the Garrison Institute\, we will engage in contemplative practice\, dialogue\, and collaborative inquiry. Together\, we will explore: \n\nEducation models and practices that center well-being\, belonging\, and justice\nHealing-centered and regenerative approaches to business rooted in care\, sustainability\, and social impact\nThe ethical and transformative use of artificial intelligence as a force for good and community transformation\n\n  \nWhy Attend?\n\nExplore the future of education\, business\, and technology through a healing-centered lens\, engaging in dynamic conversations and hands-on workshops that translate visionary ideas into actionable strategies.\nConnect with a vibrant community of leaders\, educators\, entrepreneurs\, and technologists committed to building equitable\, purpose-driven\, and human-centered futures.\nLearn from pioneering research\, case studies\, and real-world applications that demonstrate how healing-centered practices can drive innovation\, resilience\, and systemic change.\nReflect\, recharge\, and renew in a serene environment designed to foster deep contemplation\, creativity\, and meaningful collaboration—preparing you to return to your work empowered\, inspired\, and equipped for impact.\n\nThis summit is an invitation to pause\, reflect\, and seed the futures we long for. We welcome you to join a community committed to building worlds where resilience\, imagination\, and humanity remain at the center. \n\n\n\n\n	FRIDAY\, July 18th\n\n\n	3:00 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. ETCheck-In & Arrival\n\n\n	6:00 p.m. ETDinner\n\n\n	7:15 p.m.– 9:30 p.m. ETWelcome & Opening \n\nSuperintelligence for What?: The Limits of Ai in the Post-Truth World with Dr. Angel Acosta \n\nQuantum Methodological Leaps & Transcultural Universes with Samar Younes \n\nCultural Geography & Our Collective Liberation with Musa Murchison\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n	SATURDAY\, July 19th\n\n\n	8:00 a.m. ETBreakfast\n\n\n	9:15 a.m.– 12:15 p.m. ETMorning Session\n\nSymbiotic Creativity & the Post-Industrial Economy with Vincent Hunt \n\nBuilding Liberatory Technologies with Dr. Sará King \n\nHealing-Centered Education in Times of Overwhelm with Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz\, Arlené Casimir\, Dr. Justis Lopez  \n\n\n	12:30 p.m. ETLunch\n\n\n	1:30 p.m.– 3:30 p.m. ETExplore the Grounds\, Rest\, and Collaborate\n\n\n	3:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. ETAfternoon Session\n\nBusiness as Ceremony with Clarinda Tivoli\n\n\n	6:00 p.m. ETDinner\n\n\n	7:30 p.m.– 9:30 p.m ETEvening Session with Minna Salami \n\n\n	10:00 p.m. Until LateReception & After Party with DJ Faro \n\n\n	\n\n\n	SUNDAY\, July 20th\n\n\n	8:00 a.m. ETBreakfast\n\n\n	9:15 a.m.– 12:15 p.m. ETIntegration \n\nCommunity Adaptation & Resilience in the Face of Exponential Technologies with Rose Genele\, Vincent Hunt and Dr. Sará King \n\nFortitude & Discernment in Times of Change with Maria Tan\, Drisana McDaniel \n\n\n\n	12:30 p.m. ETLunch\n\n\n	1:30 p.m. ETCheck-Out\n\n\n\n\n  \nGETTING HERE ETC.\nFor more information on the facility and how to get here please visit us here.  Additional information may also be found on our FAQ page. \n  \n\nFEATURED SPEAKERS\n  \n \n  \nDr. Angel Acosta – Healing-Centered Leader & Founder\, Acosta Institute has worked to bridge the fields of leadership\, social justice\, and mindfulness for over a decade. He holds a doctorate degree in curriculum and teaching at Teachers College\, Columbia University. Acosta has supported more than educational leaders and their students by facilitating leadership trainings\, creating pathways to higher education\, and designing dynamic learning experiences. His dissertation explored healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development. After participating in the Mind and Life Institute’s Academy for Contemplative Leadership\, Acosta began consulting and developing learning experiences that weave leadership development with conversations about inequality and healing\, to support educational leaders through contemplative and restorative practices. As a former trustee for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society\, he participated as a speaker and discussant at the Asia Pacific Forum on Holistic Education in Kyoto\, Japan. He continues to consult for organizations like the NYC Department of Education\, UNICEF\, Columbia University and others. Over the last couple of years\, he has designed the Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Experience–a contemplative journey to understand structural inequality. He’s a proud member of the 400 Years of Inequality Project\, based at the New School. He is currently the Director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship Program and the Chief Curator at the Acosta Institute. \n \n  \nDr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz – Racial Literacy Scholar & Professor\, Columbia University is an award-winning Associate Professor at Teachers College\, Columbia University. Her research focuses on racial literacy in teacher education\, Black girl literacies\, and Black and Latinx male high school students. A sought-after speaker on issues of race\, culturally responsive pedagogy\, and diversity\, Sealey-Ruiz works with K-12 and higher education school communities to increase their racial literacy knowledge and move toward more equitable school experiences for their Black and Latinx students. Sealey-Ruiz appeared in Spike Lee’s “2 Fists Up: We Gon’ Be Alright”\, a documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement and the campus protests at Mizzou. Her co-authored book [with Dr. Detra Price-Dennis] Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Toward Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces will be published in April 2021. Her first full-length collection of poetry Love from the Vortex & Other Poems (Kalediscope Vibrations LLC) was published in March\, 2020\, and her sophomore book of poetry\, The Peace Chronicles was released in July 2021. \nImage by Rog Walker \n  \nMaria Tan is a first generation Filipino-American\, educator\, facilitator and consultant committed to serving communities through healing-centered education. She is a former Bronx high school science teacher where her direct experience of healing from teacher burnout inspired her to launch the Thriving Teacher Project in 2020\, creating restorative spaces for educators during the height of the pandemic. She is now the founder of House of Thriving where she works closely with healing-centered thought leaders to help nurture their vision and bring their ideas to life. Her expertise includes designing and delivering courses and summits\, producing and hosting podcasts\, creative and strategic visioning\, and curriculum/program research\, analysis and evaluation. Some of her training includes restorative circle facilitation\, trauma-informed mindfulness and somatic healing practices. As a passion project\, she collaborates with her two older brothers to create offerings centered on intergenerational healing. \n  \n \n  \nDrisana McDaniel\, a healing-centered facilitator\, educator\, writer\, and transformation activist\, operates under the banner The Alchemy of Now. Her work delves into both individual and collective experiences\, examining them through the lenses of embodiment\, the social self\, and psychospirituality\, with a vision centered on achieving transformational justice through contemplation and meaningful action. As a co-founder of the Transformative Teaching Collective\, Drisana offers guidance to organizations and communities\, emphasizing generative conflict resolution\, social justice education\, empathy\, non-violence practice\, and collaboration\, with the ultimate goal of radiating freedom and vitality through liberation and awakening. She curates workshops\, seminars\, and events exploring the potential unlocked through radical interconnectedness. With a Bachelor of Arts in Women and Gender Studies and Sociology\, a Master of Arts in Women\, Gender\, Social Justice\, and Spirituality\, and a pursuit of a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies\, Drisana’s expertise extends to her role as a senior researcher at the Acosta Institute. \n  \n \n  \nDr. Sará King – Dr. Sará Yafah King is a neuroscientist\, medical anthropologist\, artist\, political and learning scientist\, education philosopher\, social impact entrepreneur\, and certified yoga and meditation teacher. She is also the CEO and Co-Founder of MindHeart\, a consulting and liberatory technology company dedicated to advancing collective well-being\, intergenerational and planetary healing by bridging the embodiment of beloved community with AI.\nDr. King is the author of “The Science of Social Justice” framework for research and facilitation exploring a biopsychosocial framing of the ways in which social justice and well-being are the same phenomena\, and the inventor of the “Systems Based Awareness Map” (SBAM) – the world’s first theoretical map of human awareness – which she developed to explore our capacity to heal intergenerational trauma and promote the well-being of “collective nervous systems”.\nShe has utilized these frameworks to create custom keynotes\, seminars\, and consultations bridging neuroscience\, art\, music\, and embodiment practices for collective healing for fortune 500 companies\, major philanthropic organizations\, and in her work supporting neuroscience and trauma-informed  abolitionist narratives and experiential design with major fine arts museums such as the Getty Museum; the Museum of Modern Art\, NY; the Huntington Museum; the Brooklyn Museum\, and the Ford Foundation’s world renowned art gallery. \n \n  \nJoshua Abiazar a Second Circle & Racial Equity/Healing Facilitator and practitioner experienced in designing and creating restorative spaces that centers the humanity of anyone in it by using second circle framework and practices. Participants experiencing these circles and spaces of belonging encounter holistic\, practical\, and sustainable ways to embody the tools and practices towards individual and collective liberation. As a Spanish speaking\, first-generation immigrant\, Joshua uses not just educational and somatic practices but also lived experiences to help others live authentically. Joshua launched UsirConsulting to continue the vision and mission of creating a Global Community of Belonging where everyone has access to holistic and practical ways to thrive\, and calls the Dominican Republic\, The Bronx\, New York home. \n  \n  \n \n  \nDr. Justis Lopez experienced community organizer with a demonstrated history of working in the events services industry\, K-12 & higher education. Skilled in student development\, student leadership\, event planning\, culturally sustaining practices\, and creative teaching pedagogy. Actively support students\, university professionals\, K-12 educators\, and non – profit organizations towards the goal of communal & self-actualization. \n  \n  \n \n  \nVincent Hunt is an entrepreneur and creative thought leader exploring the intersections of AI\, creativity\, and professional development. As a facilitator at The Bureau of Creative Intelligence\, Vincent helps organizations navigate innovative technologies with a focus on human-centered applications leadership\, and the future. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nClarinda Tivoli is a Pacific Island entrepreneur\, business educator\, and the founder of Ever Uvi Community – an indigenous marketing and sales support resource for the conscious business community. Born in Aotearoa New Zealand to Samoan and Fijian parents\, Clarinda draws upon a cultural and entrepreneurial lineage that challenges capitalist business norms\, and nurtures long-term\, community-centered growth. Her clients range from Nobel Peace Prize nominees to Olympic athletes and influential grassroots organizers. As a mother\, Clarinda’s work is influenced by her experience birthing and raising children in Hawaiʻi where she lives\, deepening into Pasifika kinships and its successful frameworks that persist\, despite cultural erasure. Detoxing from prior corporate burnout\, Clarinda is also highly sensitive to the balancing of revenue growth with sustainable impact\, progressing at the speed of people. Clarinda teaches classes that offer an indigenous framework of story keeping in marketing (not just storytelling)\, consensual business practice (emphasis on the sensual)\, and an approach to business as ceremony. Through her teaching\, public speaking\, and mentorship\, she invites others to reclaim business as a space for cultural perpetuation and continuity\, intergenerational wealth\, and transformative justice. \n  \n  \n \n  \nMakeda Gershenson is an Apprentice at the Institute. She is also the Founder of Good Better Best. Makeda is certified as an emotional intelligence educator\, academic coach for teens and a digital behavioral coach. Her collaboration with Milwaukie High School’s after-school program was awarded the 2016 Changemakers Award from Yale’s Center for Emotional Intelligence. As a staff developer for Morningside Center\, Makeda supported New York City schools to implement and sustain restorative practices onsite. She has been a leading Mindfulness coach on habit formation platform\, Coach.me\, for 6 years\, individually coaching over 400 clients from 32 states and 37 countries. Makeda is also a professional performer\, having traveled internationally to perform both music and dance. Some of her New York musical venues include the Delacorte Theatre and Carnegie Hall. Makeda received dual degrees from Stanford University as well as a Masters in Education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. \n  \n \n  \nMusa Murchison (she/they) is a cultural geographer and social practice artist making home in Winston Salem\, NC. Their art and research practice explores work* and workplace(s) as pathways to self and communal actualization. Through ongoing participatory action research with BIPoC and LGBTQI+ cultural\, care\, and knowledge practitioners around the world\, they conceptualize and produce transmedia\, experiences\, and artifacts for us to reimagine our relationships to work and develop and channel our gifts and talents for collective liberation and personal fulfillment. Over the past 15 years they’ve spoken and taught in 18 countries\, coached global leaders to honor their multitudes\, and advised and partnered with companies and institutions to create compelling narratives\, produce award-winning campaigns\, develop human-centered solutions\, and reimagine comprehensive systems. Presently\, Musa is Managing Partner and Director of Studio and Media Lab at Oratory Glory\, and Partner at think tank and education production company\, HOLI. \n  \n \n  \nMinna Salami is a Nigerian\, Finnish\, and Swedish feminist author and social critic currently at The New Institute. Her research focuses on Black feminist theory\, contemporary African thought\, and the politics of knowledge production. Minna is the author of Can Feminism Be African? (Harper Collins 2024) which explores key themes of African feminism; Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Bloomsbury 2020) which reimagines universal concepts through a black feminist framework\, and The Power Book: What is it\, Who Has it\, and Why? The Politics of Provocation (Ivy Kids\, 2019)\, a co-authored children’s book.\nShe has written for the Guardian\, Project Syndicate\, Al Jazeera\, and The Philosopher\, among others\, and is the founder of the multi-award-winning blog MsAfropolitan which has drawn over a million readers. Minna frequently speaks at international platforms including TEDx\, Oxford University\, Yale University\, Oxford Union\, Cambridge Union\, the European Parliament\, and the Singularity University at NASA. Minna’s academic background is in Political Science and Gender Studies with a specialization in feminist theory from SOAS\, University of London. She sits on the council of The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the boards of The African Feminist Initiative at Pennsylvania State University\, The Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Sahel\, the Emerge network\, and is an associate with Perspectiva. Her books are translated into multiple languages. \n  \n \n  \nArlène Elizabeth Casimir is a Haitian-American author\, educator\, and visionary known as The Awakened Teacher. She is the founder of Reveye\, a global consultancy that integrates spiritual alignment\, literacy\, and leadership development. Her frameworks—Stories as Medicine\, Holding Space Protocol\, and the SEL Bundles—have impacted more than 10\,000 leaders across six countries. She holds an M.A. from Teachers College\, Columbia University. Through her wellness practice\, Lakay Lune\, alongside her therapy dog Worthy Zaya\, Arlène offers rituals and herbal care rooted in ancestral wisdom and nervous system healing to help people remember who they are and rise into who they’re meant to be \n— \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n_________ \nCOVID-19 \nThe health and safety of our guests and staff is a top priority for the Garrison Institute. To attend a retreat or event all guests\, teachers\, and staff are required to self-test (at home antigen test is acceptable) within the 48-hour window prior to arriving for a retreat on site\, and to bring a 2nd self-test kit when coming on site. We encourage everyone to self-monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 and other illnesses before your visit. If you experience symptoms or have a positive diagnosis\, please notify us immediately at events@garrisoninstitute.org We will continue to follow any COVID-19 guidelines set forth by our local officials\, New York State and the CDC. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/healing-centered-futures-education-business-and-technology-summit/
LOCATION:In-Person\, 14 Mary’s Way Route 9D\, Garrison\, NY\, 10524\, United States
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