In this 4-part series, Mark Coleman will share some key principles, practices and wisdom teachings to help you restore and regenerate your sense of connection with yourself, others, and Mother Earth.

The series will offer live talks and practices for establishing a deeper connection with the natural world. Plus, we’ll be screening the film Interdependence, an anthology of 11 short films.

Zeenat will share about mindfulness of the body, working with the elements, some earth grounding practices, and how to stay true to our interconnected nature in harmony with the natural world.

Join us to celebrate Earth Month and our shared commitment to environmental justice. We will highlight different traditions and practices as we come together to honor the Earth and each other.

Our Bearing Witness retreats take place in places where deep human trauma occurred and where healing is endlessly needed. With our retreats we intend to contribute to this healing.

During this program, participants have an opportunity to be with community, connect meaningfully with the land, and learn ways of promoting personal and collective resilience.

In these gatherings, we will incorporate ritual, contemplations, discussion, art, writing and other ways of representing what we feel and know. This will provide an opportunity for communal witnessing of our felt responses to the environmental suffering that is taking place all over the world, and especially in the lives of marginalized populations.

The Zen master Dogan said that awakening is intimacy with all things. We will explore how our practice can lead to being a co-participant in intimate relationship with the very alive natural world in which we are embedded. Who knows, we might even become animists!

In this 7-week Ubuntu-based decolonial journey, we explore the impact of colonisation on our bodies, minds, family systems, communities, and worldview through an intersectional lens of oppression. In a world entangled in poly-crises, we will examine the assumptions, investments, and desires that sustain these challenges.

Join us in learning how to have conversations about climate in this polarizing time.