Climate cafés focus on feelings; no feeling is too difficult or taboo to discuss. Participants are invited to share as much or as little as they are comfortable with. Our events are only available for individuals 16 years of age and older residing in Canada.

This 18-month course offers a 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. The Faculty for the program are: Gil Fronsdal, Kirsten Rudestam, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Susie Harrington, and Ram Appalaraju.

This year-long course invites participants to engage in spirituality as a living, breathing force for personal and societal transformation. Through a curated blend of reflection, practice, ritual-making, storytelling, and beloved community building, we will journey through timeless wisdom, embrace the dynamic creativity of contemporary practices, and weave a tapestry of meaning that meets the complexities of our lives and realities of our times. Guest teachers include Bayo Akomolafe, Terry Tempest Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Alixa Garcia and more.

A monthly online drop-in group, grounded in Buddhist teachings, inquiry, and community practice, to build equanimity in the midst of the climate crisis and develop capacity for a wise response.

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.

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.

At this gathering, led by Maho Kawachi and Ben Dillon, Tom Carling, a founder of SES, will offer reflections and guide a conversation on the intersection of activism and Dharma practice, and on the role of socially engaged Buddhism in our time.

Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson, in collaboration with the Council on the Uncertain Human Future and its founder Sarah Buie, invite you to take part in this fourth year of Rewilding the Soul. This yearlong series of interactive gatherings explores the deepest promise of our practice: coming present together within the social and planetary ruptures underway, and through practice and community, leaning into the truth of non-separation.

The Conscious Change Forum brings together practitioners from around the world who are integrating mindfulness, spiritual wisdom, and contemplative practice into social change work. Speakers include Deepak Bhargava, Michelle Alexander, Bayo Akomolafe, Rhonda Magee, and Gretchen Ki Steidle.

This three-month program offers a deeply immersive journey into the practices of Fierce Vulnerability. Guided by Kazu alongside guest speakers and facilitators including Francis Weller, Kaira Jewel Lingo, MaMuse, Oren Jay Sofer, LiZhen Wang and Vickie Chang, the program weaves together a book club, interactive activities, and small-group conversations to support learning and transformation.