The Garrison Institute was founded in 2003, and we are enjoying our tenth anniversary year with special events, a commemorative video, and a journal, Essays from the Garrison Institute: 10 Years of Impact, 2003-2013 (PDF, 7.5 MB). In April, we held our 10th Anniversary Gala at The Pierre hotel in Manhattan. Our keynote speakers were our board members Paul Hawken, Dan…
On Thursday, April 18, 7-10pm, join us for a talk and a convivial dinner prepared by Fresh Company. Our menu will highlight Hudson Valley ingredients and some from the city itself, with hors d’oeuvres, dinner, beer and wine served in the Garrison Institute dining room. Our menu is filled with classic NYC dishes, made with ingredients from the city, and…
Videos from our symposium The Art and Science of Contemplative Teaching and Learning: Exploring Ways of Knowing, held last November, are now available. Dr. Dan Siegel, Linda Lantieri, Tobin Hart, Mark Greenberg and Laura Rendon expound on subjects such as Reflection, Relationships and Resilience at the Heart of Internal Education; Growing the Integrative Mind; and Cultivating Different Ways of Knowing.…
Tricycle Magazine’s current issue features an illuminating look at the Buddhist Contemplative Care Symposium held at the Garrison Institute in November, 2012. Here’s an excerpt from So the Darkness Shall Be the Light: Contemplative Care Comes of Age at a Symposium in Garrison, New York, by Joe Loizzo: “Once the gong of the opening meditation had sounded in the stained…
A series of eight paintings recently created by Robert Spellman, featuring enigmatic beetles on glowing, textured surfaces, is on exhibit now in the Garrison Institute’s ambulatory. Visitors are welcome weekdays, 9-5. Spellman says of these works: “I did the present series at the invitation of the Garrison Institute. It was an opportunity to produce a set of paintings on a…
The Garrison Institute’s Contemplative Teaching and Learning Initiative has its own Facebook page. If you’d like to know more about the growing role of contemplative practice in the lives of K-12 educators and in classrooms, and keep up with news from this field, you should like this page! The growth of contemplative education can help keep teachers teaching, keep students…
Many on the Garrison Institute staff are dedicated to providing an authentic and fulfilling experience for the thousands of people who come here for retreat. And behind the scenes, all of us are kept very busy in our work. So our annual staff retreat is a very welcome occasion, when we can be together “in retreat mode,” take some breaths,…
We recommend you take time to watch some of the videos from our recent symposium on contemplative palliative and end-of-life care, Buddhist Contemplative Care, presented in partnership with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Neuroscience research has demonstrated the effectiveness of meditation and mindfulness-based techniques in both patient healing and caregiver self-care, and this symposium was designed to…