Planting Life

Over 8 weeks, starting March 18th, we’ll listen to all 10 episodes of the podcast together — not just as listeners, but as active explorers and practitioners. We’ll let Joanna’s wisdom move from our heads into our bodies. We’ll tell the truth about what we’re facing and how it feels. And we’ll resource ourselves — together — to keep showing up in service of life.

It is an opportunity to reflect on how events are landing within us, what it means to us to be engaged Buddhists, and to find meaning through shared presence.

In a time of profound uncertainty—when democracy, education, and human dignity feel under threat—many of us are asking how to respond without losing our hearts or our clarity. Drawing from the source of engaged Buddhism and contemporary movements for justice and reconciliation, this talk explores what it means to live the bodhisattva vow right now.