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)…
CARE Training participants earlier this year Teacher stress and burnout are widespread and significant factors in the quality and costs of education. Evidence is mounting that contemplative practices are effective at reducing them. Most recently, a study published in the journal Mind, Brain and Education trained a group of elementary school teachers in a form of Mindfulness-Based Stress…
August 24 – 29, the Venerable Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche returned to the Garrison Institute to lead an extraordinary Dzogchen retreat. The oldest son of the great teacher Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Chökyi is the abbot of one of the largest monasteries in Nepal, where he is responsible for over 400 monks and nuns. His visit to the Garrison Institute was sponsored by Shedrub Development Fund, www.shedrubfund.org.…
August 9 – 14, we held our Sixth Annual CARE for Teachers (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education) Summer Retreat, attracting educators from as far away as Australia, Norway, Canada and Colombia. They came to participate in our contemplative-based trainings which promote awareness of the inner experience of teaching, helping teachers cope with stress, build resilience and create…
Dan Schrag presenting at CMB 2013 In his recent post to his New York Times Dot Earth blog, “Could Climate Campaigners’ Focus on Current Events be Counterproductive?” Andy Revkin offers a thought-provoking take on the climate news climate, and on our 2013 Climate, Mind and Behavior (CMB) symposium, where he moderated a session on the current orientation towards…
Rona Wilensky, former school principal, educational consultant, social entrepreneur and acting chair of our CTL Leadership Council, is profiled in our annual report along with other Garrison Institute collaborators. A former education policy analyst for the governor of Colorado and founder of the innovative New Vista High School in Boulder, she’s now directing a schoolwide program funded by the Hemera…