The Story of Angulimala may be of particular interest to those who feel angry, confused, or despairing about the present state of the world. The story is rich with themes that speak to us now: conflict and divisiveness, how views and misinformation shape our choices, the ripple effects of our actions on others, the value of ethics, and the possibility of true transformation.

Terry Tempest Williams will help us hold the space between light and dark, love and grief, through the theme of Reverence.

Undoing Patriarchy is a monthly group of Zen practitioners, conditioned as or identifying as men, exploring patriarchy’s effects on us and our communities, connecting to the sacred masculine and feminine, and repairing the damage patriarchy has done to everyone along the gender spectrum. The meetings take place every third Sunday.

This year, Jews and Poles and Germans, Palestinians and Israelis, Buddhists and Christians and Atheists, descendants of victims and descendants of perpetrators will gather again in Auschwitz-Birkenau to bear witness. We will sit at the Selection Site, read the names aloud, share silence and council, and come together each evening in one great circle. We invite you to join us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.