Becoming a Force for Nature

The EcoSattva Journey

Join Kaira Jewel Lingo, Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock, and One Earth Sangha for this EcoDharma Exploration on Sunday, October 26, at 10:30am PT/1:30pm EST to 12:30pm PT/3:30pm EST. All are welcome. Learn more about this upcoming gathering in the description below.

For the rest of 2025, our EcoDharma Explorations will be co-created by Braided Wisdom and Spirit Rock as part of a new initiative, the EcoDharma & Transformational Culture Program. Look for more programming from this collaboration over the next few months and years. We at One Earth Sangha are honored and excited to work with our new partners.

Registration is now open.

Join Kaira Jewel Lingo and One Earth Sangha for this very special EcoDharma Exploration. We’ll come together and launch into the latest edition of EcoSattva Training.

Life on Earth is really going through it right now. Humanity’s reckoning with itself is on, and we’re all feeling, albeit unequally, the very real and interlocking consequences of centuries of human and ecological exploitation.

To make a bad situation even worse, we also must contend with the unfolding chaos, injustice, violence, breakdowns, and instabilities of all orders and magnitudes across the globe. It’s a hard time. Many of us are trying our best. We work to increase our awareness of the massive systems of harm, connect with aligned others, and act courageously, and yet, here we are.

Where do we begin, again? In this EcoDharma Exploration, we’ll gather ourselves and our inner resources, gather each other and the resources we share, and reflect on our global situation. We’ll map out the EcoSattva journey, and how we might set the conditions for a compassionate transformation of the profound, collective suffering that characterizes our time into an empowered and courageous response.

Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in spirituality and social justice. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, and she draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King, Jr. After living as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally in the Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, as well as in secular mindfulness, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and activists, as well as artists, educators, families, and youth. Based in New York, she offers spiritual mentoring to groups and is author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption and co-author of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy and Liberation. Her upcoming events and teachings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.

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This Exploration is part of a short series in collaboration with Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock’s ecoDharma & Transformational Culture Program and One Earth Sangha. We’re honored and excited to work with our new partners.

 

This program is donation-based, with no required registration fee. We welcome your contributions to support this program and the work of Braided Wisdom and One Earth Sangha.

Registration for this exploration is open now.

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