May 23 – 26 renowned Buddhist teacher Gelek Rimpoche leads a retreat on “Manjushri’s System of Blasting Through Ignorance,” exploring Tibetan teachings about breaking out of the “unquestioned assumption of a permanent self” that underlies suffering. That’s an insight that sounds a lot like the CBRT white paper on resilience, which argues: “People often view themselves as static entities, when in fact they…
“Resilience” is a big buzzword these days, increasingly invoked in relation to violent conflict, natural and manmade disasters or climate change. The concept can be vague, but a new white paper by Teri Sivilli, manager of our Contemplative-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) program and Tad Pace of Emory University articulates a clear, evidence-based theory of resilience. Reviewing evidence from psychology, biology and neuroscience, it finds resilient communities…
Last month the Institute and the Rubin Museum of Art co-presented a sold-out evening forum on “Mindfulness at Work” featuring luminaries Daniel Goleman, Janice Marturano and Sharon Salzberg, all of whom have new books on the subject. It was covered by Huffington Post and Rewireme.com, and we’ve just uploaded new video of their talks. Watch the video…
The Institute presents a rich variety of retreats and events that provide tools for positive personal and social change. They’re designed for people from all walks of life and all levels of familiarity with contemplative-based practices, from first-timers to experienced practitioners. In the weeks and months ahead, we’re offering Contemplative-Based Resilience Trainings for humanitarian aid workers, a meditation retreat for…
Join us this Earth Day, April 24 at 7pm, for our fifth annual Modern Earth Day Meal hosted by the Institute in collaboration with Fresh Company. It features a talk by environmental journalist and Dot Earth blogger Andy Revkin on “An Earth Day for the Age of Us” – a reference to our human-dominated era widely nicknamed “the Anthropocene.” Over…
The US building sector accounts for almost half (45%) of our greenhouse gas emissions and three-quarters (75%) of our electricity use. That makes the stakes of optimizing energy performance in the building sector roughly as high as the transportation or industrial sectors combined. Beyond the physical plant, energy use in buildings is largely determined by the choices and behaviors of…
A leading neuroscientist, psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author, Dan Siegel, M. D. is a member of our board and a key advisor and presenter for our education and climate change initiatives. Siegel’s work advances the evidence-based view that the human mind is not just embodied inside the skull. Transcending the delusion that Einstein called the “skin encapsulated self,”…
Daniel Goleman at the Rubin Museum of Art Last week a sold-out crowd attended our panel on “Mindfulness at Work” featuring Daniel Goleman, Sharon Salzberg, and Janice Marturano, moderated by David Gelles. The panel explored the many dimensions of mindfulness in the workplace. A video of the event, which was co-presented by the Garrison Institute and the Rubin Museum of…