Kritee (Kanko), Ph.D., is a Zen Buddhist priest, climate scientist, meditation teacher, grief ceremony leader, and Love-justice activist. She is the founding guiding teacher of Boundless in Motion and a cofounder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. For 12 years, before fully committing herself to these two nonprofit organizations, she served as a Director and Senior Scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at Environmental Defense Fund.  Her articles, interviews and peer-reviewed manuscripts have appeared in many mainstream, academic, contemplative and international outlets including the New York Times, BBC, Harvard Health, Yale Climate Connections, California Public Radio, Tricycle, Lion’s Roar etc.

Kritee believes that our collective survival, healing and belonging in these times of polycrisis depends on our ability to belong and re-indigenize. Reindigenizing depends on our ability to heal our traumas through meditation, animistic ecodharma that embraces animism, and on using science and strategies rooted in Nonviolence. She has brought her unique and loving approach to retreats and workshops organized by many organizations including One Earth Sangha, Al Gore’s Climate Reality, 350.org, Stanford University, World Council of Churches, San Francisco Zen Center, Mind & Life Institute and Lama Foundation. Please visit her website for more details.

Embodied Wakefulness in Action:  

An Online Meditative Inquiry on Climate Change 

Tending to the Earth and to Ourselves:  Are They the Same or Different?

with Jon Kabat-Zinn & Kritee Kanko

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Time: 10am-noon EDT; 7-9am PDT; 4-6pm CEST

Participants registering for this inquiry event are requested to first attend the May 1 event with Kritee Kanko, either live or by recording, prior to the June 17 event.

Your donation will support Kritee in continuing with her work. Thank You!

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. did his doctoral work in molecular biology at MIT in the laboratory of the Nobel Laureate, Salvador Luria. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (in 1995), and (in 1979) its world-renown Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic.  He is the author of 15 books, the most recent of which are Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief (2023), and a Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Wherever You Go, There You Are 2024). They include the bestsellers Full Catastrophe Living, Wherever You Go, There You Are, and Mindfulness for Beginners. In 2018/2019, he published a series of four volumes updating and expanding the 2005 edition of Coming to Our Senses:  Meditation is Not What You Think; Falling Awake; The Healing Power of Mindfulness; and Mindfulness for All. His books are published in over 45 languages.  His work has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, psychology, health care, neuroscience, schools, higher education, business, social justice, criminal justice, prisons, the law, technology, government, and professional sports. Over 700 hospitals and medical centers around the world now offer MBSR. Jon lectures and leads mindfulness workshops and retreats around the world and online. In the Spring of 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, he offered 66 consecutive weekdays of 90 minute online guided meditations, talks, and dialogue, the so-called mitigation retreat:  see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqkYJfT8gsw. His website is https://www.jonkabat-zinn.com.

Kritee (Kanko), Ph.D., is a Zen Buddhist priest, climate scientist, meditation teacher, grief ceremony leader, and Love-justice activist. She is the founding guiding teacher of Boundless in Motion and a cofounder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. For 12 years, before fully committing herself to these two nonprofit organizations, she served as a Director and Senior Scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at Environmental Defense Fund.  Her articles, interviews and peer-reviewed manuscripts have appeared in many mainstream, academic, contemplative and international outlets including the New York Times, BBC, Harvard Health, Yale Climate Connections, California Public Radio, Tricycle, Lion’s Roar etc.

Kritee believes that our collective survival, healing and belonging in these times of polycrisis depends on our ability to belong and re-indigenize. Reindigenizing depends on our ability to heal our traumas through meditation, animistic ecodharma that embraces animism, and on using science and strategies rooted in Nonviolence. She has brought her unique and loving approach to retreats and workshops organized by many organizations including One Earth Sangha, Al Gore’s Climate Reality, 350.org, Stanford University, World Council of Churches, San Francisco Zen Center, Mind & Life Institute and Lama Foundation. Please visit her website for more details.