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
Social Transformation Begins Right Here
- July 26, 2026
- Dekila Chungyalpa
What can open up for the beleaguered heart and mind when we slow all the way down and just breathe? What does this body already know about the magnificent compassion of this Earth, even as we might struggle to receive it?
Upcoming
Turning Toward the Darkness Without Bypass or Collapse
- August 23, 2026
- Jessica Serrante
Jess Serrante will share what she's learned in her years of friendship with Joanna Macy and her own experience carrying this lineage forward. Come ready to be tender with yourself and each other. We won't leave with answers — but hopefully with a little more room to carry what's true, together.
A New Certificate Training from One Earth Sangha
Offering Dharma at the Threshold
A groundbreaking training for modern Buddhist and mindfulness teachers who wish to bring the living Earth, climate realities, and the polycrises of colonial modernity into their teaching and communities with wisdom, courage, and care.
Updated for 2025/2026
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.”
Featured EcoDharma
EcoDharma
EcoDharma
Ecological Activism for the Global South
- Dekila Chungyalpa interviewed by Damchö Diana Finnegan
- Video
From the Bodhisattva vow to the deliberate design of injustice, this conversation asks what Buddhism has to offer a world undergoing dramatic change and lands on a simple truth: we may not get there in our lifetime, but we are called to build the path.
Featured Practice
Practice
Practice
Meditation with the Earth, for the Earth, as the Earth
- Catherine McGee
- Video
Catherine McGee, a guiding teacher with One Earth Sangha, offers five short exercises for supporting our relationship with the Earth.
The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.
Events from Our Networks
A Contemplative Circle of Nature & Word
- July 23, 2026
- Buddhist Coalition for Democracy
- Online
This contemplative online circle explores the relationship between language, nature, and shared human experience. Facilitated by author, poet, and ecopsychologist Lorena Saavedra Smith, the group will engage poetry as a practice of mindful witnessing, listening to the ways Earth, body, and society inform one another. Sessions include a short meditation, a selected poem connected to a monthly theme, and sharing of original theme-inspired writings or reflections. No prior writing experience necessary.
A Hands-on Watershed Health Workshop
- July 25, 2026
- Mountain Cloud Zen Center
- In-Person
Join Mountain Cloud Zen Center for our first free public educational workshop of the Ecodharma Infrastructure Project! In collaboration with the Santa Fe Watershed Association and Southwest Urban Hydrology, we invite you to step onto the land and explore how to heal and care for our pinyon-juniper woodland. Whether you are a seasoned conservationist, a backyard gardener, or simply looking for a meaningful way to connect with the Earth, this workshop offers practical skills to build climate resilience right here in our community.
A Year-Long Series, Monthly on Sundays
- July 26, 2026 — December 20, 2026
- Natural Dharma Fellowship and Mindful Living Revolution
- Online
Hosted by Lama Willa and Deborah Eden Tull, these gatherings invite us to experience Dharma not as fixed doctrine, but as a living, relational field—one that emerges spontaneously through authentic dialogue and shared presence. Guests for this series include Kazu Haga, Susie Harrington, Kritee Kanko, Adam Lobel, Thanissara, and Karen Waconda-Lewis, with additional guests to be announced. You only need to register once to access the full year of monthly Dharma Dialogues and you may join at any point during the series.
Last Monday of the Month
- July 27, 2026
- Eco Dharma Network
- Online
Climate circle is a space to connect with our emotional responses to the climate and ecological crises, and related political and social crisis and to be alongside others and be resourced. hristine and Nick are members of XR Buddhists and offer on-going monthly climate circles. Christine is a Triaratna Earth Sangha local convener for the North Wales Buddhist group and is a retired psychotherapist and trainer of psychotherapists. Nick practises Tibetan Buddhism and has integrated Buddhism, meditation and activism for the last six years.
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)
Resources for Engagement
- Beyond Ecological Grief podcast from National Observer with Britt Wray
- A Year Without Joanna: On grief, wildfire smoke, and choosing to love this world anyway from Jess Serrante
- poems for gaza from anita barrows
- Letter to A Young Organizer from Mariame Kaba
- What if invitations to participate in civic life were creative and caring? podcast from What If to What Next
- “Being the Ground” Toolkit: practices to use before, during, and after taking action from The Embodiment Institute
- The 89 Percent Project by Covering Climate Now
- Call to Action for Elections – Resources from Buddhist Coalition for Democracy
