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Awareness, Care and Sustainability for Our Earth

Bringing Inner Development and Climate Action Together

Recorded: Friday, March 7, 2025

with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jamie Bristow, Christine Wamsler, Bruce Barrett, Liane Stephan and Margaret Fletcher

Links and resources shared during this event can be accessed here

Can connecting our own inner mindfulness with outer sustainability help us turn toward our future with strength and resilience? Given the increasing pace and harms of climate change, we can sense the rising call for our most powerful actions to heal our relationship with Earth. Developing an embodied understanding of our interconnectedness with all life on the Earth is deeply needed, now.

In this online gathering, you’ll find:

Evidence for how mindfulness supports sustainability behavior, and means for nurturing and developing your own resilience.
Mindfulness-based methods for creating climate action, grounded in awareness of interconnection and care for the Earth.
Tools for mindfulness teachers to bring Earth awareness to life for students and practitioners.

This time together will include presentation, question and answer, and guided practice, plus small and large group discussion. Presenters will discuss contemplative methods that help to reconnect to oneself, and nature and our more-than-human kin. Participants will connect, share and learn about ways to explore these methods further from each other and through a variety of upcoming programs.

With thanks to the Mindfulness World Community and the BESS Family Foundation for their support.

Additional resources to study, practice and engage in mindful EcoAwareness

Here’s more inspiration for your Earth awareness and action practice.

Earth-Based Mindfulness and Meditation

An Exploration of Ecodharma Practices

One Earth Sangha

A virtual EcoDharma center supporting a global community in the Path of Engaged Practice.

Sacred Activism

Committed to building an activist Dharma culture as central to our vision for these times

Mindful Eco-Wellness: Steps to Healthier Living

An educational and behavior change program through the University of Wisconsin School of Public Health

Mindfulness-Based Sustainable Transformation

Practice to turn climate distress into mindful and impactful pro-environmental action and to experience the transformative energy of connectedness and collaboration

The Contemplative Sustainable Futures Program

Learning, networking and knowledge development to support individual and collective inner dimensions and transformation, in the face of increasingly complex social and environmental challenges. Lund University, Sweden.

Awake in the Wild

Daily meditation talk and practice in the natural world, with founder Mark Coleman and skilled Awake in the Wild teachers from around the world.

Wise Climate Action Think Tank

Resources gathered by Mindful Heart Programs for building a sense of inner-rootedness and interconnectedness with nature to support people in facing the climate crises and in taking actions toward justice.

Garrison Institute: Pathways to Planetary Health

The Pathways to Planetary Health initiative recognizes that the wellbeing of people and Earth are deeply interconnected; the initiative works to build understanding of planetary health through scientific inquiry and contemplative practice across traditions.

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