This is a powerful and close time with the earth, sangha, and our cherished Planting Life faculty, guided by a renowned team of Indigenous activist-scholars, artists, and Native farmers. Planting Life is grounded in daily meditation and socially engaged Buddhist perspectives, infused with the dynamic teachings of Native seedways and Traditional Ecological Knowledges.

The Buddhist Peace and Conflict Chaplaincy program (PACC; pronounced like pax) draws on foundational Buddhist teachings and practices to uncover the innate potential of the human heart to foster peace within and without. Participants will intimately explore the role of a Buddhist Peace Chaplain – a spiritual caregiver who is dedicated to the flourishing of peace and supports those enmeshed in conflict with clarity, kindness, and impartiality. Applications open until March 15.

Join Kritee Kanko, Imtiaz Rangwala and Ramon Parish for a retreat designed for empowering anyone who cares about the healing and belonging in these wild times of polycrisis (climate, genocidal wars, xenophobia, pollution, rise of fascism and mental health crisis).

The Global Course on More-Than-Human Rights is an intensive five-day course designed to impart students with the essential elements of rights of nature / more-than-human rights law and contemporary practices and thinking associated with the MOTH paradigm. The deadline to submit your application is April 1.

Touching the Earth is a three-week immersion for young adults on a Vermont homestead to cultivate self-awareness and deepen relationships with others and the living Earth. Application Deadline: March 15

In interdependent intimacy with the land, and with the elements as our queer teachers, elders, and kin, we will reconnect to knowing our own inherent nature as already free, and our queerness itself as an awakening.

This program offers basic Buddhist training in the wisdom and skill needed to be a Buddhist Environmental Chaplain, i.e., those who work to support people in developing healthy, compassionate, and mutually supportive relationships with each other and with the natural world. Offered by Gil Fronsdal, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Susie Harrington, Ram Appalaraju, and Kirsten Rudestam.

The CoFSA Bhutan Summit 2026 aims to catalyze movement-building, collective action and investments for the integration of the inner dimension of food systems transformation in international, national and local food systems agendas and actions, by bringing together policymakers, consumers, farmers, civil society organizations, and consciousness practitioners from around the world.

This nature-based retreat with Peter Williams, Manny Mansbach, and Karen Waconda will draw from the wisdom of Tribal Nations and the Buddhist meditative tradition to connect us deeply with ourselves, others and the entire natural world.