The Community Climate Circle is a calm, gentle online space, guided by trauma-informed coach and ecotherapist Kathryn Sheridan. It is a place to share our emotions and feelings about the Climate and Ecological Emergency, not a space for practical solutions or policy discussions. Kathryn is a Buddhist practitioner in the Plum Village tradition and a Tariki Trust Ten Directions graduate.

BCD offers a monthly gathering for those who want to engage in mindful reflection and find practical ways to be more involved in making change happen. We get together on the third Wednesday of every month.

Each week we’ll explore together through conversation, practice and reflection, carrying experiments into our lives and tending our more-than-human relationships between calls. We’ll be joined by some wonderful guest contributors, bringing perspectives from art, science, law and indigenous knowledge.

Among the 10+ presenters for this online conference are Robin Wall Kimmerer, Walter Goldstein, Hope Flanagan, LoriAnn Bird, Milford Calamity, Zachary Paige, and Frank Kutka. Each speaker will bring their own perspective about this plant, but what they have in common is a sense of appreciation and care for corn which they will share.

We gather at the dawn of the sixth mass extinction — each of us carrying, somewhere in the body, both a great love for this Earth and a great grief for what is unravelling. Most of us carry a question, too: what is mine to do in times such as these? This day-long ceremony offers a living pathway into that question — through the body, through the land, and through a listening older than words. Together we will explore a way into embodied dialogue with the sentience of the more-than-human world and open a doorway for the wisdom of the earth to be known through us.

Like many of our modern challenges, the climate crisis is in essence a spiritual crisis. To solve it necessitates a real shift in consciousness — from consumption to contemplation. Come join educator, engineer, and environmentalist Samrat Pathania to explore how eastern philosophy — the Upanishads in particular — can help us attain the inner balance that is necessary to end the upheaval in the external world.

The Gathering is an invitation to inquire together into what becomes possible when care is restored as the organising principle of decision-making — not as sentimentality, but as rigorous attention to interdependence, reciprocity, and the conditions that allow life to flourish. Whether you are a place-based practitioner, grantee or investee, end beneficiary, capital flow shaper, grant manager, philanthropist, impact investor, institutional funder, trustee, thought leader, consultant, advisor, or guide helping to influence the direction of our collective work, if this space calls to you, then it is for you.

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.

On the day of the year most associated with consumerism and crowded malls, the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center (MZMC) is offering a space for stillness. The public is invited to the 12th annual "Blank Friday," a free open house and introduction to mindfulness. This event provides an accessible, welcoming environment for anyone curious about meditation, whether they are looking for stress relief or a deeper contemplative practice.

“Ground” is the opening course in the Movement Dharma: Buddhist Movement Chaplaincy series and the Professional Certificate Program (PCP). It introduces participants to the nondual Buddhist foundations of engaged leadership, exploring how contemplative practice can cultivate the vision, resilience, and ethical grounding needed to accompany individuals and communities in the work of justice and liberation.