Photo by Richard Koek A big Thank You to all of our patrons, sponsors, musicians, guests, and everyone involved in making the Garrison Institute Benefit Concert at Town Hall such a successful and transcendent night of music! Pictured here are Artistic Director Philip Glass on the piano and Wu Man on the pipa, a traditional Chinese instrument.
CARE for Teachers Summer 2013 Participants A new peer-reviewed study, published in School Psychology Quarterly shows that the Garrison Institute’s contemplative-based CARE for Teachers training program is effective at improving teachers’ well-being and ability to cope with stress, empowering them to improve classroom climate, and potentially, student outcomes. Such findings could have important implications for education policy and…
Sharon Salzberg Trauma directly affects large and growing segments of the US and global population, as well as the caregivers and human service workers who work with them. Humanitarian aid and disaster relief workers work in dangerous conditions and cope with chronic stress, burnout and the constant exposure to others’ suffering, which can take a well-documented toll on their…
angel Kyodo williams November 21 – 24 the Institute will hold its second contemplative retreat specifically for social justice activists entitled “Practicing Justice Retreat: Transformation for Social Change.” In a field that covers many diverse issues and communities, the retreat is dedicated to reconnecting and strengthening the diverse ecosystem of people doing the work of achieving a more…
CMB Interim Director John McIlwain at Climate, Buildings and Behavior In the US, most of us spend nearly 90% of our time indoors, so the quality of our built environment intimately affects our lives. It also powerfully impacts the climate. 42% of greenhouse gas emissions in the US come from the building sector. The green building professionals who…
Alice Kennedy Alice Kennedy, Sustainability Coordinator for the City of Baltimore, is profiled in our annual report along with other Garrison Institute collaborators. She’s a key collaborator on our “behavior wedge profile” — a new tool that CMB developed together with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network to help sustainability managers evaluate and rank promising energy savings strategies according…
Philip Glass, artistic director of “In the Spirit” On October 24, 2013, Philip Glass will present an extraordinary array of acclaimed traditional and contemporary musicians celebrating the healing power of music for our times in a concert entitled “In the Spirit.” Inspiring and uplifting with music rooted in spiritual traditions stretching from Tibet and China to Africa, the Middle…
Thaddeus (Tad) Pace Thaddeus (Tad) Pace, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Psychiatry in the College of Nursing at the University of Arizona (formerly with Emory University), is profiled in our annual report along with other Garrison Institute collaborators. He researches how stress affects the endocrine and immune systems, and is working with the Garrison Institute on our new Contemplative-Based Resilience Training (CBRT)…