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Garrison Institute CEO Mary Pearl was inducted as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at a ceremony in Washington, DC on February 19th. The AAAS is the world’s largest professional society of scientists and engineers and publisher of the journal Science. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their…
Karen Beetle has written a beautiful testament to the power of retreat on the Albany Times Union blog. “Attending a retreat or a conference is always a leap of faith. We carve out the time, scrounge up the money, and leave our everyday lives to open to a new environment, new information, a new community. And inevitably we are richer. …
Buy this book on Amazon Garrison Institute board member, teacher and our friend Sharon Salzberg has written a new book, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation, which has been very well received by her fellow teachers and meditation leaders. Jon Kabat-Zinn says, “This book is an inviting gateway into the interior territory of profound well-being and wisdom…. [M]indfulness and lovingkindness…
We are enthusiastic to welcome Helena Norberg-Hodge to the Garrison Institute on the evening of January 26, 7 pm, when she presents her latest film, “The Economics of Happiness.” After the film Norberg-Hodge will discuss how rebuilding smaller scale, ecological, local economies can help us rediscover those essential relationships, both with the living world and with one another, that ultimately…
In his New York Times Dot Earth Blog, September 29, 2010, “Climate Responses: Primal Easy, Ethical Hard,” Andrew Revkin discusses Dan Siegel’s fascinating discussion of “me-maps” vs. “we-maps” at the Garrison Institute’s 2010 Climate, Mind and Behavior symposium: “There is a deep divide in society… reflecting what Dan Siegel, a psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has found…
Sharon Salzberg recently posted a very interesting article, “Meditation: The Key to Resilience in Caregiving,” on the Huffington Post. We recommend it. In her words: “As I look forward to co-leading this retreat, People Who Care for People: Tools for Resiliency at the Garrison Institute, I find myself reflecting on caregivers I know. Some practice caregiving professionally, as nurses, first…
We are excited that these three distinguished teachers will be coming together January 27-30, 2011, to lead a retreat especially for anyone in helping professions or a caregiving role. Many in helping professions, such as first responders, domestic violence shelter workers, human rights workers, nurses, therapists and teachers, serve populations experiencing trauma, loss or dislocation. Often these same people are…
Buy this book on Amazon A Conversation with the Editors, October 20, 7 pm The environmental emergencies we face – species extinction, pollution, climate disruption – are scientific and economic issues. But they are also moral issues. They call us to examine our ethical responsibilities to the planet and to future generations. They offer us the urgent chance to envision…