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We would like to highly recommend The Social Brain and the Diffusion of Pro-Social Behavior, a paper written by John Gowdy for the Garrison Institute’s Climate, Mind and Behavior Program. “As society considers how to motivate humans to address the challenges of climate change,” Gowdy writes, “increasing attention is turning to biological insights into human behavior, an inquiry that is…
The Initiative on Contemplation and Education will be convening an education symposium, Advancing the Science and Practice of Contemplative Education, November 4-6, 2011 at the Garrison Institute. New research points to the benefits of contemplative education on the inner lives of children and adults, including social and emotional learning. This symposium will bring together teachers, school administrators, health professionals, academics,…
Habitual and contagious behavior change… Human motivation and cognitive limitations… Emotional, affective and unconscious dimensions of climate change communications… The social brain and environmental valuation… Making sustainability a pre-competitive issue… Ten strategies to move a movement… What is this all about? Dealing with climate change means wrestling with that most complex of constructions: our minds. See our newly-posted video presentations…
From the Putnam County News and Recorder, April 20, 2011: Ushering in a celebration of the season with an early nod to Earth Day, the Garrison Institute, Fresh Company and the Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries held a special dinner event, Food and Water: An Evening Talk and Dinner on Sustainability on April 14 at the Garrison Institute. About…
The Garrison Institute staff and friends recently came together to offer their compassion, well wishes and generous donations to those affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Altogether, over 1,300 pairs of socks were collected to donate to shelters that are providing assistance and care for those affected by the natural disaster. The drive was organized by a…
We hope you’ll join us for “Food and Water,” an evening talk and meal focused on sustainability in our region, Thursday, April 14, 7-10 pm, sponsored by Hudson Valley caterer Fresh Company, Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries and the Garrison Institute. It is said that our environmental future depends upon our ability to live sustainably, yet as a community…
The Climate, Mind and Behavior Symposium, which convened from March 2-4, 2011, is reverberating through the media channels! Andrew Revkin’s New York Times Dot Earth Blog, Bryan Walsh’s TIME Ecocentric Blog, Brian Merchant on Treehugger and Leslie Kaufman on the New York Times Green Blog all report from the conference, described by Brian Merchant as “a stream of provocative ideas…
We think you should know about MindUP™, the signature educational initiative of Goldie Hawn’s Hawn Foundation. It’s a family of social, emotional and attentional self-regulatory strategies and skills that help children cultivate well-being and emotional balance and improve their behavior and learning. Like the Garrison Institute’s Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) program, MindUP™ draws on current research in…