•  Home
  • p About
    3 C
    • About the Garrison Institute
    • Who we are
    • Being Here
    • What Inspires Us
  • 1 Programs
    C C

      Contemplative-Based Resilience

      Developing and delivering evidence-based tools for helping professionals to strengthen resilience and foster connection, so they can "be well to serve well."

      Learn more

      Pathways to Planetary Health

      Advancing our understanding of planetary health and how nature-centered community life builds bioregional resilience through scientific inquiry and contemplative wisdom.

      Learn more

      Spirituality & Social Change

      Building a generative field where inner work, spirituality, and contemplative practice guide social transformation.

      Learn more

      Retreats

      We offer a rich array of programs from in-person multidays to online communities with leaders from diverse wisdom traditions, contemporary disciplines, and change fields.

      Learn more
  •  Calendar
  •  Get Inspired
    C 2
    • Read
    • Listen
    • Watch
    • Participate
  •  Get Involved
    3 C
    • Donate
    • Ways to Give
    • Volunteer
    • Community Advisory Council
  •  Contact
    3 C
    • Getting here
  •  Subscribe
  •  Donate
U
  •  Home
  • p About
    3 C
    • About the Garrison Institute
    • Who we are
    • Being Here
    • What Inspires Us
  • 1 Programs
    C C

      Contemplative-Based Resilience

      Developing and delivering evidence-based tools for helping professionals to strengthen resilience and foster connection, so they can "be well to serve well."

      Learn more

      Pathways to Planetary Health

      Advancing our understanding of planetary health and how nature-centered community life builds bioregional resilience through scientific inquiry and contemplative wisdom.

      Learn more

      Spirituality & Social Change

      Building a generative field where inner work, spirituality, and contemplative practice guide social transformation.

      Learn more

      Retreats

      We offer a rich array of programs from in-person multidays to online communities with leaders from diverse wisdom traditions, contemporary disciplines, and change fields.

      Learn more
  •  Calendar
  •  Get Inspired
    C 2
    • Read
    • Listen
    • Watch
    • Participate
  •  Get Involved
    3 C
    • Donate
    • Ways to Give
    • Volunteer
    • Community Advisory Council
  •  Contact
    3 C
    • Getting here
  •  Subscribe
  •  Donate
Winterlude

Winterlude

by Garrison Institute | Dec 26, 2025 | Climate, Mind and Behavior, Get Inspired, Insights, Read

Another holiday season is passing into memory while the current year expires and a new one waits to be born. With the Winter Solstice just past, the days are once again lengthening even as they turn colder in the long months before the green pulse of spring quickens...

In Search of Societal Altruism

by Garrison Institute | Feb 12, 2020 | Climate, Mind and Behavior, Insights, Social Change, Symposium, Systems Thinking

We live in a time of great uncertainty, with the triple threat of increasingly volatile climate change, political polarization, and income inequality. It feels like the political, economic, and governance systems of our civilization are not only unequal to these...
Returning to a Place of Belonging

Returning to a Place of Belonging

by Garrison Institute | May 11, 2017 | Climate, Mind and Behavior

When you pay attention to what’s happening to the world—the destruction of our air, soil, and water—it is common to want to do something to help the situation. But what if part of the reason that we’re in this perilous ecological situation is our tendency to treat the...

Recent Posts

  • Judy Lief: Buddhist Practice in Life and Death
  • Carrot Coconut Soup Recipe
  • Jeremy Lent: Ecological Civilization and the End of Extractive Capitalism
  • John Fullerton: Regenerative Economics and Living Systems Capitalism
  • Tao-Xin Zeng

Recent Comments

No comments to show.

P.O. Box 532, 14 Mary’s Way, Route 9D, Garrison, NY 10524 (Getting Here)

(845) 424-4800

Email Us

Follow Us

  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow

Subscribe

Support Us

Donate

Careers   |   Privacy Policy   |   Terms of Service

© 2026 Garrison Institute
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.