Communities of faith, conscience, and spiritual or religious practice are uniquely poised to provide care and connection to their communities during major events like smoke, excessive heat, or this upcoming election. MNIPL's Community Climate Resilience Network (CCRN) brings together interested communities to learn more about what it takes to become a resilience hub or to coordinate with other resilience hubs before, during, and after times of need. These sessions offer training and conversation with other interested groups and are the first step towards becoming a place of refuge and support for your neighbors.

We are in a time of tremendous endings, dissolution, and collapse, but something always comes after that. What does it mean to live in a time of such profound change? What needs to end for the next to begin? How do we recognize, support, and join the new possibilities rising out of the burned-over ground of our time? This program on socially engaged Buddhism will be led by Roshi Joan Halifax, Valerie Brown, Terry Tempest Williams, Rebecca Solnit, Molly Crockett, and Christiana Figueres.

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.

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 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.

Led by Dr. Melanie Harris, this program draws on compassion practices shaped by five Black Women Buddhists teachers — Tina Turner, Alice Walker, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Melanie L. Harris, and bell hooks. Non-violent forms of fierce compassion point us to healing the places in us that have been harmed, empowering us to be agents of compassion, anchored in hope. For this reason, our time together will include Buddhist chanting, music of the Black spirituals tradition, grief writing, and contemplative practices of prayer, breathing, and walking meditation.