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Winterlude
This particular time of year feels like nothing so much as that brief moment of stillness between inhalation and exhalation, the equilibrium point between expansion and contraction, that brief instant of stasis and silence that comes with every breath.
Cultivating Ecological Civilization: Wisdom, Practice, and Systems Change
How can cultural, ethical, and spiritual wisdom traditions guide transformation toward an ecological civilization?
As the world confronts ecological disruption, cultural fragmentation, and the impacts of climate change, the search for integrative approaches to planetary health is essential.
From Fragmentation to Integration: Rethinking Leadership for a New Economic Era
On October 17, the Garrison Institute's...
Mapping the Field of Conscious Change
The Conscious Change Collective provides a new social systems map of organizations applying contemplative practice for social transformation as well as a community working toward transforming consciousness.
Sitting in Circle: Gathering to Transform Ourselves and Our World
This simple gathering was more than coincidence; it was a rare serendipity and a living expression of what we had been co-creating: a community of practice that bridges continents, traditions, and changemakers in service of inner and outer transformation.
Finding Wholeness & Healing Within Heartbreak
Heartbreak finds us all, there is no escaping it. No matter how righteously we try to live, wounding can show up in forms we recognize and forms we don't. We inherit the pain of human relationships and other unintegrated trauma channeled through the violence of world systems, generational trauma, family breakups, fractured friendships, and the tender emotional imprints left in us from intimate partnerships.
Cultivating Courageous Wholeness
What does it mean to lead with wholeness in a time of deep division? This conversation moved from personal practice to organizational culture and to the wider civic sphere, making a simple but timely case: inner work is public work.
Apprenticing to the Wild
Kurt Hoelting and Stephen Posner explored what it means to apprentice to the wild—a lifelong practice of cultivating presence, resilience, and belonging in relation to both inner and outer wildness.
Inner Work Drives Outer Transformation
The Garrison Institute’s Spirituality & Social Change Program seeks to make visible, learn from, and catalyze a generative field at the intersection of contemplative practice, spirituality, and social change.
The Myth of “I Can’t Meditate”
If there’s a tug of curiosity or the sense of spiritual longing, the assumption that “I can’t do” something is an obstacle of our own making that is worth investigating.
A Conversation with Author Ethan Nichtern
On July 9, we had the pleasure of hosting a Garrison Institute webinar with author and teacher Ethan Nichtern. If you’re familiar with Ethan’s teaching from The Road Home podcast or perhaps his essays on Substack, you can appreciate him for his clear, contemporary voice on spirituality.
Joanna Macy (1929–2025): A Life of Sacred Activism, Deep Belonging, and Wild Love for the World
With deep gratitude and sorrow, we honor the life and legacy of Joanna Macy, PhD—environmental activist, scholar, teacher, and beloved friend—who passed away peacefully on July 19, 2025.