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.

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.

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.

This gathering with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Father Adam Bucko invites participants into a felt sense of contemplative practice that leads to action, enabling us to engage with the world wholeheartedly. We will draw inspiration from contemporary Buddhist and Christian saints and bodhisattvas—including Thich Nhat Hanh, Desmond Tutu, Dorothy Day, Dipa Ma, Matthew Fox, and Joanna Macy—whose teachings offer invaluable insights for cultivating fearlessness and compassion.

“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.

An end-of-year conversation among spiritual teachers, activists and movement builders on what these last years have revealed, and what they now ask of us. We ask: How might spiritual wisdom help us move beyond business as usual altogether? ​With Alnoor Ladha, Lubna Masarwa, Thanissara and Rima Vesely-Flad. Hosted by Thanissara & Sumedha.

This conversation series brings Black and Asian-American Buddhist scholars and practitioners together for honest dialogue about what it means to practice Buddhism in America today. These conversation partners aim to create bridges and ask nuanced questions — about ancestral practices and culture, about appropriation and erasure, and about what it means to evolve the Buddhist tradition to meet the current moment.

This conversation series aims to create bridges and ask nuanced questions — about ancestral practices and culture, about appropriation and erasure, and about what it means to evolve the Buddhist tradition to meet the current moment.

Karen Wakonda and Jeanne Corrigal will weave Indigenous and Buddhist teachings that combine conceptual understanding with the direct experience of these natural qualities as they unfold in our own nature, moment to moment. The retreat will be offered both in person and online.