Valid response to ecological destruction doesn’t look one way. Like healthy ecosystems, we can invest in diverse, wild, and creative forms.
Welcome to One Earth Sangha, an EcoDharma network supporting a global community in the Path of Engaged Practice.
As ten thousand years of climate stability is ending, the call to develop inner stability has never been more clear.
Upcoming EcoDharma Explorations
Join Us Live the Fourth Sunday of the Month
Upcoming
Standing in Fierce Compassion in this Age of Reckoning
- March 23, 2025
- Thanissara
As extractive systems collapse and uncertainty rises, how do we stay present and act with wisdom? This session explores Dharma teachings and meditative grounding for meeting grief and the call to disrupt and reimagine with courage.
Upcoming
A Work that Reconnects Spiral Gathering
- April 27, 2025
- Alex Julie
What might the Earth desire from us this Earth Day? Alex Julie guides a Work That Reconnects spiral practice to ground in gratitude, lean into grief, and clear our heart-minds enough to listen for the Earth.
Upcoming
Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
- May 25, 2025
- Kazu Haga
As we face the poly-crisis, how do we escalate our actions without escalating a worldview that keeps us from interdependence? How can we view injustice as a manifestation of collective trauma? How can the Dharma support us in a skillful response?
Updated for 2024/2025
The EcoSattva Training
Join us in a Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and Compassionate Action
“For anyone who’s yearning for a way to meet the often agonizing challenges of this time with a clear mind, a steady heart, a resilient body and a ferocious spirit, One Earth Sangha’s EcoSattva Training is a beautifully-designed and meticulously-crafted container.”
Group and Individual Registration are now open. The Program launches on November 10.
Featured EcoDharma
EcoDharma
EcoDharma
Until the Great Work is Done
- Mushim Patricia Ikeda
Might Earth be a Buddha? Mushim Ikeda explores the practice of taking refuge in the body of water, soil, and sky.
EcoDharma Art, Poetry, and Imagery
Creative
Creative
- Carolyn Chilton Casas
Of all the planets on which you could experience life, Earth may be the most trying. Poet Carolyn Chilton meditates on how the deep breath may make living here a little easier.
The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.
Events from Our Networks
- March 24, 2025
- — May 4, 2025
- World BEYOND War
Online
War and the Environment is a six-week online course with a strong emphasis on reflective practice, collaborative learning, and community building throughout. As wars, preparations for wars, and environmental destruction escalate—and much of the focus remains on human conflict—it is vital to better understand and respond to the far-reaching impacts of war and militarism on people, all living beings, and the planet. This course empowers you to do just that.
Grief Ritual Training with Francis Weller
- March 22, 2025
- — June 14, 2025
- The Centre for Climate Psychology
Online
This grief ritual training is based on the body of work developed by Francis Weller and is specifically tailored for individuals who are climate- and polycrisis-aware. Through this training, you will receive teachings and experiential practices that guide you in navigating the intense emotional terrain that arises in grief ritual spaces.
Women Leaders in Contemplative Social Action with Deena Metzger
- March 26, 2025
- Zen Peacemakers International
Online
As part of our Women's Leadership series, poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman, Deena Metzger, will speak with us about ways to be with what is happening in the world currently, including reflecting on the recent California wildfires.
Women Leaders in Contemplative Social Action with Deena Metzger
- March 26, 2025
- Zen Peacemakers International
Online
As part of our Women's Leadership series, poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman, Deena Metzger, will speak with us about ways to be with what is happening in the world currently, including reflecting on the recent California wildfires.
Sponsored by the BESS Family Foundation, Earth Awareness Community Retreats are intended to foster community among those whose work and interests are focused on the intersection of mindfulness/meditation and climate change. Retreats will be held in 2025 – 2027 at four geographically dispersed retreat centers. Attendance at the retreats is free, but other costs are participant responsibilities.
There is a way to be a human being
that causes all life to thrive.
— Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
Featured Action Organizations
- 50501: “The first #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies. The idea—50 protests in 50 states on 1 day—was born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media.”
- Hope and Haven Refugees: “We help Sudanese refugees in Adré camp, eastern Chad & displaced families in Sudan with vital humanitarian aid.”
- International Rivers: “We seek a world where healthy rivers and the rights of local river communities are valued and protected. We envision a world where water and energy needs are met without degrading nature or increasing poverty, and where people have the right to participate in decisions that affect their lives.”
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” Mary Oliver
Featured Calls to Digital Action
- Read: Planting Seeds of Freedom in Palestine’s First Ecovillage by Atmos
- Train: People have the power! Join Beyond Plastics for a free, virtual, two-part grassroots organizing training to learn practical and powerful ways to end plastic pollution and engage your larger community. Join us for this free, virtual training starting Saturday, May 3.
- Boycott: February 28th is being organized as a US economic blackout by People’s Union USA. Support and learn more.
- Read: Meditations in an Emergency an ongoing blog by Rebecca Solnit
- Sign: Tell your rep to fight for the EPA with Earthworks.
- Read: MAGA’s 7 Deadly Sins–So Far–and How to Fight Back by Qasim Rashid
- Read: DOGE is hiring. The response did not disappoint by Waging Nonviolence
- Sign: Demand Congress Protect FEMA Now with Interfaith Power and Light
- Sign: Pledge for Canada. “The threats of economic coercion from the United States, our neighbour and leading trading partner, pose serious risks to the well-being of all Canadians and to our sovereign right to determine our political, economic, social, and cultural destiny.”
