Join Bonnie Duran, Carol Cano, Jeanne Corrigal,and Karen Wakonda for this hybrid daylong retreat. They will weave Indigenous and Buddhist ways of knowing, exploring connections in the teachings of mindfulness, kindness, and Indigenous knowledge systems.

This full day meditation retreat will be an opportunity for experienced meditators to connect to nature, to our animal brethren, and to other Buddhist practitioners at the site of the Rivendell Farmed Animal Sanctuary.

Issa will talk about his work and vision for the Garden of Hope, located in the West Bank and the first mindfulness center in Palestine. He will talk about his work as a peace activist with the Palestinian society and also with Israeli and international peace activists. He will also talk about the current situation in the West Bank, where he lives. Dharma teacher Dorit will talk about the meaning of the cooperation with Issa around the Garden of Hope and the current, general atmosphere in Israel.

This eight-week series for white-bodied people integrates the transformative Buddhist practice of Insight Dialogue (relational mindfulness) with anti-racism education. Facilitated by Anita Bermont, Holly Nelson-Johnson, Judy Bernstein, Patricia Fontaine, and Sue Brown.

CS is a three-month immersion in Buddhist wisdom, meditation, community building and nature connection for 18-25 year olds. It’s a contemplative laboratory where we learn and practice the roots of peace we believe are needed now more than ever in this time of political, ecological and social turmoil. Apply by January 4, 2026.

During this two-hour webinar session, we will engage in lecture, practice, and experiential exercise that support widening our circles for collective liberation.

During the five day retreat we will spend four full days of mindful work volunteering in the tree nursery and planting areas of Moor Trees. The middle day we will immerse in silent and still meditation practice. This retreat is a chance for us to offer our compassionate care to our living planet.

The 3 Tenets of Zen Peacemakers: Not-Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Taking Action. Our third tenet is taking loving action from not knowing and bearing witness. This vow makes Zen Peacemakers unique. This is how we engage and reach out with helping hands to relieve suffering in our troubled world. Please join us to share your work, your project, and your own taking action with others. This circle will be held monthly in 2026.

This program with offers a unique and deep journey into deep embodied listening as a way of life. How we listen is how we perceive. Our capacity to see with the heart - and respond skillfully and courageously - stems from the quality with which we listen, within and out, to ourselves, each other, and the natural world. There are personal, interpersonal, transpersonal, societal, ecological, and mystical implications to this way of listening. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, until January 15, 2026.

Over the course of four 2 hour workshops, we offer a space to come together to explore personal and collective responses to our warming world. Through a mix of creativity, mindfulness, nature-based exercises and more, you will learn to share your hopes, fears and dreams in order to live more easily with them and with each other.