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Category: Arts
- Singing From Mountain to Mountain
- Finding our Mythic Ground
- Art as Spiritual Practice
- Glimpses From the Healing Spiral of Words
- The Compassionate Bliss of the Artist
- Perception As Seed of Poetry
- The Rhythms of Meaning
- Anne Waldman: “Extinction Aria”
- Dancing Souls
- Elucidating the Nature of Human Consciousness Through Art
- In Pursuit of Beauty
- Writing to Awaken
- The Play of Voices
- Preserving Solitude
- Why Do We Turn to Poetry at the Important Moments in Our Lives?
- A Complex Collision of Selves
- True Words
- Writing As Spiritual Practice
- Four Poems
- Does Reading Fiction Make You a Better Person?
- Finding Stillness in New York City
- Three Poems
- Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser Shoots at the Garrison Institute
- Resting in Wonder
- VIDEO: Joanna Macy on Rainer Maria Rilke and the Force of the Storm
- Everything I Know About Writing Prose Comes from Reading and Writing Poems
- VIDEO: On Creativity and Contemplative Practice
- Real and Imagined Landscapes
- The Creative Spirit
- Questions Frame the Quest
- Getting Out of Her Own Way
- 10 Conversations with Poets
- Becoming Part of a Larger Whole
- Odetta Sings “Glory Halleluja”
Category: Books
- Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves & the World
- Mindful Design & Remembering that Women are Half of Humanity
- To Beat Overwhelm, Figure Out Your Values
- Our Pristine Mind: Cruising Altitude
- How Children Thrive: Prioritizing What Matters Most
- Breathe
- Flipping the Script on Climate Change
- Being Mindful of Race
- Practicing Not-Knowing
- Get Over Yourself
- The Morality of Meditation
- The Courage to Be in Solitude
- A Brief History of Life
- Is Buddhism True?
- Does Meditation Work?
- What We’re Reading
- The Practice of Integrity
- Who’s Listening?
- Death Asks Us to Live Authentically
- Be Here Now… And in Deep Time
- The Five Spiritual Superpowers
- Great Teachers Are Transparent
- Notes on Ecological Aesthetics and Ethics
- Altering Traits
- Catalyzing Empathic, Engaged Citizens
- Working with Fear
- The Insight of Interbeing
- Can Contemplation Still Find a Place in the World?
- Embracing Solitude
- The Problems of the World Need Your Love
- Love Everybody
- Buddhist Economics
Category: CARE for Teachers
- CARE: An Educator SEL Program with Proof
- Taking Educator SEL Seriously!
  CARE Is a Proven Equitable Pathway to Support Teacher and Student Well-being
- Education Forum: Mark Greenberg and Dan Siegel
- How to Practice Self-Compassion
- VIDEO: Improving the Well-Being of Teachers and Students
- INFOGRAPHIC: Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE for Teachers)
- City of Compassion
- Why CARE for Teachers Matters
- How Mindfulness Can Transform the Classroom
- CARE for Teachers: Helping Teachers Keep Their Cool
- The Garrison Institute Marks a Decade of Leadership in Contemplative Education
- Contemplative Education for Teacher Educators
- Incorporating Mindfulness Training Into Teacher Education
- Contemplative Practices in the Classroom
Category: Climate, Mind and Behavior
- Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: Laurie Anderson & Jonathan F.P. Rose
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: Edward Norton & Jonathan F.P. Rose
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: Gerald Torres & Jonathan F.P. Rose in Conversation
- In Search of Societal Altruism
- A Matter of Time
- Winterlude
- Deep Winter
- Oh, Holy Night!
- Paul Hawken’s Drawdown
- Climate: A New Story
- Climate Change for Aliens
- Look Beyond the Headlines
- Healing Civilization Nature’s Way
- Regenerative Economics
- Letting Go of the Big Bass
- The Liminality of Spring
- Returning to the Garden
- Awakening to Your Inner Wyoming
- On the Virtues of Traveling by Foot
- Can Nature Experiences Replace Mindfulness?
- Wild Faith
- A Time for Silence
- Seen and Unseen
- Taking a Walk Through Deep Time
- Great American Eclipse… or Eclipse of America?
- Fierce Compassion in the Anthropocene
- Our Commitment to Sustainability
- Choosing Less
- Finding a New Religion of Meaning
- Attuning to the Natural Simplicity of Life
- Finding Hope in the Face of Uncertainty
- Returning to a Place of Belonging
- 100 Best Climate Solutions—And Why They’re Going to Work
- Ep 13: Youth Voices on Climate Change with KidSpirit Members
- Creating A Vision of Planetary and Human Health
- Ep 12: Falling in Love with the Earth with Mark Coleman
- Touching the Earth
- Ep 11: A Frozen Garden of Eden with Dr. Cary Fowler
- A Maturing Relationship with the Planet
- The Group That Builds the Future Together
- Ep 10: Transformational Resilience and Climate Change with Bob Doppelt
- Flying Against the Wind
- Ep 9: A Buddhist Response to Climate Change with Kristin Barker
- Our Language of Disconnection
- The Well-Tempered City and the Future of Urban Life
- Ep 8: The Water Protectors at Standing Rock with Pauly Denetclaw
- Recovering Our Reciprocal Relationship With the Land
- Compassion and Cities
- Ep 7: The Well-Tempered City with Jonathan F. P. Rose
- Finding the Courage to Create a New Culture
- Ep 6: Land is Life with Piya Macliing Malayao
- Ep 5: Justice for our Future with Lois Marie Gibbs
- Meditation on the High Line
- The Unfolding Story of the Universe
- Ep 4: Connecting Faith and Climate with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
- Ep 3: Moving Towards Action with Jaimie Cloud
- Ep 2: Practicing Change with Sharon Salzberg
- Seeing the Whole
- Despair and Wisdom
- Getting the Next Generation to Fall in Love with the Planet
- Ep 1: The People’s Climate March with Bill McKibben
- The Urgent Need to Slow Down
Category: Compassionate Leadership in Finance
- Deliver Bad News with Compassion: A GUIDE
- The Pain of Mass Layoffs: How To Lead with Compassion?
- Lead to Transform with Sander Tideman, Matthias Birk and the CLIF Program
Category: Contemplative-Based Resilience
- Possibilities for Everyday Resilience: A Conversation with Sharon Salzberg
- Health Care Workers Risk Burn Out. How Will They Get the Care They Need?
- Webinar: “The Unshakable Core: Growing Calm Strength for Turbulent Times” with Rick Hanson
- Webinar: “Practices for Transforming Stress into Vitality” with Gayla and Aaron Stiles
- Webinar: “Lovingkindness in Difficult Times” with Sharon Salzberg
- From Hurricanes to Hate Crimes
- 4 Self-Care Strategies to Avoid Parental Burnout
- Spreading Mindfulness, Kindness, and Resilience in Prison
- Syria Crisis: Mindfulness and Stress Management for Emergency Relief Workers
- Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
- How Can People Be Deeply Spiritual and Emotionally Immature?
- Healing Ourselves, Healing the World
- Resilience Fatigue
- CBR Project Expanding Operations to Assist with Syria Crisis
- Moving Through the Heaviness of Humanitarian Aid Work
- The Path of One Humanitarian Aid Worker
- Notes from the the 14th Sakyadhita Conference on Buddhist Women
- Reconnecting with Compassion
Category: Custom Programs
- The Peak of Resilience
- Search Inside Yourself
- Community and Conversations on Context in Contemplative Studies
Category: End of Life/Palliative Care
- Living and Dying Well Through the End of Life
- Opening to Joy and Love
- Compassionate Care of the Dying
- VIDEO: Frank Ostaseski on Compassion and Appropriate Response
- Exploring the Aesthetic Dimension of End-of-Life Care
- Lessons from End-of-Life Caregiving
- Redesigning Death Care
- VIDEO: Staying Open to Possibility in End-of-Life Care
- Bringing Contemplative Care into the Healthcare System
- Grief as a Path to Wholeness
- Does Happiness Prolong Life?
- More Than Mindfulness: An Interview with Norman Fischer
Category: Fellowship
- The Contemplative Artist’s Way
- Intraconnected: Embracing Oneness and Human Differences
- Creating a Wise Work-Life Balance: Relational Sensemaking in Leadership
- “Social Presencing” with Nichol Chase and Arawana Hayashi
- The Body Speaks, and Its Language is Movement
- Shelly Tygielski: Challenging Injustice Through Meditation
- Sit Down to Rise Up: An Excerpt from GI Fellow Shelly Tygielski’s Forthcoming Book
- September 2021: Insights from the Garrison Institute Fellowship
- Fellowship Forum: Cultivating R.E.S.T.: The Ground of Liberation with Rashid Hughes
- Garrison Institute Fellow Releases New Music Video for our Hidden Heroes
- Fellowship Forum: Race, Restorative Justice and Healing in a Time of Awakening, Repair & Re-imagining
- Garrison Institute Fellowship Director and Fellows to Present at 4th International Conference on Mindfulness
- Fellowship Forum: Jerry Michalski on Contemplative Innovation and Design from Trust
- Fellowship Forum: Dr. Bayo Akomolafe on Wrestling with Postactivism and Planetary Health
- Fellowship Forum: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson on Critical Thought & Contemplative Wisdom for Our Times
- Fellowship Forum: The State of the Garrison Institute Fellowship
- Fellowship Forum: Arawana Hayashi on Welcoming the Unknown Through Embodied Practices
- Fellowship Forum: Dr. Dan Siegel on the Reality of Intraconnection
- Fellowship Forum: Dr. Sará King on the Science of Social Justice
- Ending Racism: How to Change the World in One Generation
- Visionary Directors Join the Garrison Institute
- Introducing the Garrison Institute Fellowship
Category: Forum
- Contemplative Science and Organizational Transformation with David Germano
- Leah Penniman on Black Earth Wisdom
- Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire with Rebecca Henderson
- Gross National Happiness as a Keystone in Sustainable Growth with Tshewang Wangchuk
- Heath Nero on the Power of Protecting Public Lands
- Inner Resources for Collective Action on Climate Crisis
- Nicole Redvers on Bridging Indigenous Systems and Modern Science
- Michelle Moore on Leading an Equitable Energy Transition
- Justin Winters on Coexisting with Nature
- Daniel Christian Wahl on Regenerative Systems Design
- Paul Hawken, Konda Mason, Tara Brach on Meaningful Action to Achieve Planetary Health with Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
- Eric Beinhocker On the New Economic Paradigm
- Tensie Whelan On Sustainable Enterprise in the Private Sector
- Assisting Our Planet through Observation
- Empowering Communities: A Conversation With Thibault Manekin
- Kerry Kennedy: Bringing Mindfulness to Activism
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: Jon Kabat-Zinn on Growing The Common Good
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: David Abram on the More-than-Human World
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: Tim Jackson on Life After Capitalism
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: Tony Hiss on Half-Earth and Planetary Health
- Pathways To Planetary Health Forum: Ibrahim Salih Abdul-Matin on What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet
- Justice from the Inside Out: Contemplative Practices for Correctional Workers
- Pathways To Planetary Health Forum: Filmmaker, Photographer, Author, Husk Of Time Victor Masayesva in Conversation with Co-Founder, The Garrison Institute, Jonathan F.P. Rose
- Pathways To Planetary Health Forum: Editor, Foreign Affairs Magazine, Gideon Rose in Conversation with Co-Founder, The Garrison Institute, Jonathan F.P. Rose
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: Sam Myers & Jonathan F.P. Rose
- “Healing Collective Trauma in a Fractured World” with Thomas Hübl and Dr. Angel Acosta
- Education Forum: Mark Greenberg, Christa Turksma, and Tish Jennings
- Forum: “The Inner and Outer Work of Radical Healing in Our Times” with Rhonda Magee & Angel Acosta
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: David Simas & Jonathan F.P. Rose in Conversation
- Category: Featured Forum
  - Cynthia Bourgeault on The Common Good
  - Pathways to Planetary Health: Regeneration with Paul Hawken
  - Watch now—Pathways to Planetary Health: Joanna Macy
Category: Garrison Institute News
- The New Garrison Institute Leadership Team
- The Mind and Life Summer Research Institute
- The Huffington Post’s Next Ten Campaign
- We Welcome Andrew Zolli
- Upcoming Retreat Highlights
Category: Humor
- Aphorisms for Our Age
- Karmastry: Unlock the Secret of Your Past Lives
- How to Appear Enlightened in Public
- Buddhist Yelp Reviews
- Even Larry is a Lesson
- Introducing Medit8, a Super Traditional Meditation App
- How to Select the Right Meditation Cushion
Category: Insights
- Mind in Life
- A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication: An Interview with Oren Jay Sofer
- How to Make Cities Greener for All
- Making the most of summer break: Taking stock, enjoying and resetting resilience
- The Great Silence Amid the Roar: A Meditation Coming Out of Holy Week 2019
- Is Mindfulness Inherently Contextualizing?
- Lead by Example: Cultivating Wellness in the Workplace
- The Mythic Imagination and Contemplative Practice
- Inner Work. Outer Impact. A Leadership Journey for the Modern Workplace
- Belonging to Ourselves and Each Other
- Women Rowing North: An Interview with Mary Pipher
- Into the Mystery
- Inspire, Aspire, and Conspire
- How Does Chanting Work?
- Grateful for Now
- What is the Role of Laughter in Contemplative Practice?
- How Can You Unhook Your Mind from Your Phone?
- Changing for Real
- The Future of Leadership Will Be More Feminine
- New Ways of Connecting with Food, Farm, and Farmer
- The Geopolitics of the Other
- The Invitation to Sing
- Changing the Story
- Raising Resilient Children and Creating Thriving Families
- The Great Return
- Digital Mindfulness
- The Fire of Now: On Spiritual Activism, Leadership, and Contemplative Practice
- Let Me Know When You See the Iguana
- Calling God Mother
- Spiritual Movements and Metaphors
- Finding Happiness through Contemplative Design
- Notes on Non-Dual Consciousness
- The Four Foundations of Mindfulness According to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
- #WeToo
- Solitary Encounters
- The Winds of Love
- Is There a Place for Compassion in Business?
- Satisfy Your Craving for Human Contact
- A Prayer of Gratitude
- The Difference between Loneliness and Solitude
- The Koan of Fake News
- (Mis)information Overload
- The Theory and Practice of Satyagraha
- A Short History of Walking
- Creating Spiritual Intimacy On “The Angry Planet”
- Good Friendship Is the Entire Spiritual Life
- Trusting the Three Treasures
- One Simple Practice That Changes Everything
- Compassion and Wisdom
- Paying Attention to Our Inner Child Can Heal Old Wounds
- Toward a Contemplative Ecology
- Craving Freedom
- Seeing the System as a Source of Self
- Follow Your Calling
- Training for Future Heartbreak
- Christian Nonduality
- Upgrading Our Inner Lives
- Aligning Technology with Humanity
- Mindlessly Scrolling for Satisfaction
- Less Empathy, More Kindness
- Reading, Resilience, Mindfulness and More
- Our Favorite Books in 2016
- Running Away Deepens the Trance of Fear
- VIDEO: Defining the Mind with Dr. Dan Siegel
- Seasoning the Day with Sanity
- Kids and Screen Time
- VIDEO: How Can Our Nation Begin to Heal After The Election?
- Ending the War
- What is Embodied Listening?
- The Blossoming After the Bullying
- The Personal Self is a Construction
- Sylvia Boorstein on Laughter
- Embodied Spirituality
- Reflections on the Heat This Summer
- Bridging Spirituality and Activism
- Where I End and You Begin
- Inhabiting Multiple Spaces
- Rats, Floods, Spiders, and the Meaning of Life
- Countercultural Contemplation
- Turning Toward Social Identity-Based Suffering
- Parental Presence
- The Force of the Storm
- Train Your Brain
- The Practical Practitioner
- “Meditation Malice” — on working with distractions and resentment
- VIDEO: Father Thomas Keating on Contemplation, Social Change, and the Internet
- What Garrison Means to Me: Joy Baum
- Rama’s Sandals and the Spirit of Dialogue
- 10 TED Talks That Inspire
- Lessons People Can Learn From Horses
- A Hidden Force that Connects Us
- What Garrison Means to Me: Lisette Cooper
- Really Getting to Know Yourself
- Contemplation in a World of Action
- Existing in this Particular Moment
Category: Leadership
- Jonathan F.P. Rose Receives the 2021 ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development
- 3 Reasons to Combine Mindfulness and Change Management
- The Three Qualities of an Effective Leader
- Like the Wild Geese
- Mindfulness in the C-Suite
- The Focus of a Mindful Leader
- America’s First Chief Mindfulness Officer
- Should You Be Your Authentic Self at Work?
- A Mindful Solution to Mindless Meetings
- How to Be a Better Human at Work
Category: Meditation
- “An Hour of Contemplation for our Time” with Mary Anne Best
- Webinar: Ethan Nichtern in Conversation with Jane Kolleeny
- Webinar: “Deepening Your Meditation Practice” with Lama Surya Das
- Awake in Nature
- The Mystique of Rain
- Dreaming within the Dream
- Practicing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
- Meditating Together
- How Mindfulness Matures into Wisdom
- Between a Cyborg and a Hard Place
- The Heart of Centering Prayer
- “You’re Allowed to Have Fun with the Practice”
- What’s Wrong With Mindfulness?
- In Challenging Times, Your Body Knows What’s Needed
- From Stress Reduction to Systems Change
- Real Love
- Infographic: 10 Steps to Mindfulness Meditation
Category: Organizational Change
- Mindfulness and Politics
- Mindfulness for Innovative Change Management
Category: Pathways for Planetary Health
- Announcing Our New Pathways to Planetary Health Director, Stephen M. Posner
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: Summer 2022 Series Introduction
- Why Planetary Health?
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum Spring 2022 Series Introduction
Category: Resources & Reflections
- Emancipating Ourselves from Mental Enslavement
- Martel Catalano – Beyond Our Battles: Coping with Chronic Illness and Disability
- Michelle Maldonado – Leading Awake: Bringing Mindful Equity, Compassion & Wise Work to Action
- Robin Stern, PhD. and Marc Brackett, PhD. – Permission To Feel: Strategies For Healthy Emotional Regulation During Uncertain Times
- Mary Esther Malloy – The Healing Power Of Parenting Through Connection: Mindfulness For Birth & Parenting
- “Surrendering to Uncertainty: Embracing the Mud” with Kaira Jewel Lingo
- Webinar: Being with Change with Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara
- Webinar: “Steps to Real Peace” with Dawa Tarchin Phillips
- Webinar: “Tending to the Emotional Body” with Leslie Booker
- Webinar: “Dharma and Racial Injustice” with Atman Smith, Andres Gonzalez, and Ali Smith
Category: Retreat
- Waking Up Fabulous – Taking Refuge & Care
- People Who Care for People: Four Remarkable Contemplative Teachers Who Help Caregivers Learn to Care for Themselves
- Exploring the Outdoors and Going Within
Category: Science
- Integration: A Central Process in the Journey to Thriving
- The Responsibility to Change
- Anxious to Connect
- It’s Not as Bad as You Think
- The Power of Human Touch and What It Means for Our Digital Lives
Category: Social Change
- Mindfulness in the Micro Moment
- Mindfulness and Social Justice
- Radical Love in Our Country
- The First Amendment in the Post-Truth Age
- An Enlightened Approach to Politics
- Kindness Is a Risky Business
Category: Social Justice
- I Vow Not To Burn Out
Category: Symposium
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Technology
- The No Nonsense–and No Device–Guide to Gratitude
- Going Gray
- The Battle for Your Attention
- To Be Liked
Category: Uncategorized
- Igniting Action at the Intersection of Art, Ecology, and Contemplation
- Introducing the Compassionate Leadership in Finance PODCAST
- Announcing Our New CBR Director, Christa M. Tinari
- Celebrating a Year of Connection in Our BIPOC Meditation Sangha
- A new partnership to support Congressional staffers
- Remembering E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy
- The Intersection of Philanthropy and Decolonization
- Re-committing Ourselves to the Land
- Seeking Solace: Attendance is up at this New York meditative retreat in Garrison
- To Survive, We Needed Quarantine. To Thrive, We Need Sanctuary – A New Op-Ed from CEO Jonathan Wiesner
- Timely Teachings from Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche on the Nature of Mind
- Earth Day 2020: “Mind, Self and Consciousness” with Dr. Dan Siegel
- Webinar: “Transforming Pandemic Panic into Receptive Presence and Growth” with Dr. Dan Siegel
- The Science of Awareness-Based Leadership
- Design on the Brain
- Leaning Toward Interdependence
- The Wheel of Awareness
- Profiles in Courage
- A Buddhist Chaplain Disrupts Suffering in Rikers Island
- We Don’t Do Leadership; We Are Leaders
- Standing at the Edge
- Where the Heart Lives
- Opening Our Hearts to Life
- Bringing Mindfulness to Work
- Enter the Gates That Open
- Listening to Silence, Hearing the Unspeakable
- Introducing His Loneliness
- Towards Queer Freedom and Awakening
- Against the Digital Detox
- The Moral Obligation to Treat All Beings with Compassion
- On Wisdom and Being
- VIDEO: Working With Difficult Emotions
- The Essence of Nonduality
- Buddha with a Smartphone
- 6 tips for getting ready for a meditation retreat
- Composing Spirituality
- Hidden Inside the Body is a Dancing Soul
- In the Spirit with Riyaaz Qawwali
- Letter From Our New CBR Project Director
- Latest CBR Training a Huge Success
- Meet Emmett Fitzgerald, New Director of the Garrison Institute’s Contemplative-Based Resilience Project
- Chris Marblo, the Garrison Institute’s New Executive Director
- The Garrison Institute’s “Insight + Impact” Benefit
- Laurie Anderson on New Work, HABEAS CORPUS: “I think meditators are the people who will understand this best”
- Reducing Stress for Teachers: An Interview with Tish Jennings
- Jack Kornfield on Connecting Our Inner and Outer Lives
- Gelek Rimpoche on Buddha’s Buzzwords
- Resilience and the Brain: An Interview with Richard Davidson
- A Force for Good: An Interview with Daniel Goleman
- You Are Not Your Pain: An Interview with Vidyamala Burch
- RESEARCH: The Human Dimensions of Resilience
- Celebrating our 10th Anniversary
- Examining Contemplative Education
- Contemplative Judaism
Category: Webinars
- Pathways To Planetary Health Forum: Sebene Selassie & Jonathan F.P. Rose
- Balancing Perseverance with Patience with Allan Lokos & Dr. Pilar Jennings
- Pathways to Planetary Health Forum: Paul Hawken & Jonathan F.P. Rose
- Webinar: “The Direct Path to Peace and Happiness” with Rupert Spira
- Webinar: “The Flourishing of the Earth Community” with Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Jonathan Rose
- Webinar: “Climate Resilience and Response: Learning from this Great Pause” with Jessica Morey
- Webinar: “Mastering the Present Moment” with Michael Miller
- Webinar: “Self Practice in Challenging Times” with Krishna Das
- Webinar: “The Paths in the Underworld” with John Tarrant
- Webinar: “Resilience and Compassion in Times of Chaos” with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Sensei Robert Chodo Campbell
- Webinar: “Effortless Mindfulness: Tools to Access Essential Support” with Loch Kelly

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