Welcome to episode eight of the Climate, Mind and Behavior Podcast. Each episode, we’ll explore groundbreaking intersections between climate change, resilience, contemplative practice and human behavior. Pauly Denetclaw is a Native American journalist born and raised in Manuelito, New Mexico. Interested in writing from a young age, she began her first book at eight years old. Today she is studying mass…
Poets Robert Polito and Gregory Pardlo co-led a retreat at the Garrison Institute entitled “Imagining Your Voice on the Page” on December 16 – 18, 2016. The essay below was originally delivered by Polito during the panel Genre-Crossing and Poetic Truth: Lyric Nonfictions, Reported Poems at AWP 2016 in Los Angeles. This is a short talk with a long list inside it,…
At a recent Wisdom Talk that the Garrison Institute co-presented with 92nd Street Y, On Being‘s Krista Tippett spoke with Garrison Institute Board Member Andrew Zolli about her new book Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. (Read an excerpt of Becoming Wise.) Some of the key questions they discuss: What are the raw materials of…
Embodied listening is listening with the whole body, a kind of deep listening in which we are fully present for others, giving them space and support to share their experience fully, without interrupting, judging, shifting the topic to ourselves, or even trying to be helpful before help is asked for.
I’ve been seeing an adorable nine year old boy, Max, in my clinical practice for about three years now. A sweet, sensitive, and anxious child, he took to therapy and then to mindfulness almost immediately, using some classic breathing and sense practices from our first session in his home and school life to help calm and center himself. One of…
Winter is fast approaching the North Dakota plains where an unprecedented gathering of Native American tribes intends to remain at Standing Rock, continuing their protest against the Dakota Access pipeline as long as needed. Those gathering there call themselves “water protectors,” noting that running the pipeline under the Missouri River just upstream from the reservation puts their source of water…
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Dan Siegel’s book Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human. Along with the New York Society for Ethical Culture and the Blue School, The Garrison Institute co-produced a conversation with Siegel about his new book at the New York Society For Ethical Culture in New York City on November 3, 2016. [Note: In the excerpt…
Sylvia Boorstein’s next retreat at the Garrison institute is “Integrity as the Path to Happiness,” on December 7 – 10, 2017 which she is coleading with Sharon Salzberg. “One of the things that’s true about me is that I laugh a lot,” says meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein. Find out why in this short video.