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...
by Garrison Institute | Dec 20, 2019 | Retreat
Joan Borysenko, author of Pocketful of Miracles, writes of December: [It is]. . ‘the month in which all the forces of nature are aligned to help us give birth to the light within. Midwinter has cast a spell over the land and all of nature sleeps. Members of the...
by Garrison Institute | Sep 20, 2019 | Insights, Science, Social Change, Social Justice
Think about your local walk to the park. You head down that shady street, turn left at the corner store, cut up that little alleyway, and – voila! – you are surrounded by bounding dogs, trees, and giggling children. Or maybe not. Maybe you have to navigate...
by Garrison Institute | Jul 2, 2019 | Meditation, Retreat
This past weekend I was at a wedding in Vermont. The groom has been a friend for over two decades. And like all the rest of his friends, I was so happy that he had found love, especially after the pain and loss of his first wife’s illness and passing. It was...
by Garrison Institute | Jan 29, 2019 | Climate, Mind and Behavior, Insights
As I write this, 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...
