Join us for a free online gathering to honor the literary legacy of Joanna Macy through readings, dialogue, community reflection and Q&A with a panel of her fellow authors, moderated by Leilani Navar. This gathering will be facilitated by the Work That Reconnects Network, in collaboration with Parallax Press, Shambhala Publications, and New Society Publishers.

This half-day online gathering brings together teachers from the Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training and Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy programs. Designed for anyone curious about chaplaincy rooted in Buddhist values, the event offers an opportunity to explore the rich intersections between ecological and interpersonal forms of spiritual care.

A chance to visit Palestine for the evening and meet an activist who is seeking peace despite the impact of occupation. An opportunity to practice compassionate listening, and to build bridges over barriers of separation, and participate in our shared humanity.

On this hybrid Dharma Sunday with Lama Liz, we will continue exploring what it means to cultivate our innate capacity to relax into beingness with the energies of the phenomenal world. Hybrid event.

Typical Zen retreats are designed for intense and deep meditation experiences and include zazen (seated meditation), kinhin (group walking meditation), deep abdominal chanting, a talk at the interface of Zen and Ecodharma teachings, rest periods, samu (silent work periods) and dokusan (private interview with the teacher). To minimize spiritual bypassing, we also add council (sharing circles which include expressions of grief, fear, confusion and anger) and/or heart-centric songs everyday. (Hybrid)

Created in partnership with the BESS Family Foundation, this is an eight-week live online course for young adults 18-35 that invites us to examine our relationship to a changing Earth and World: Earth as the living planet we breathe and depend upon, and World as the horizon of meaning we inhabit. The course is offered by-donation in the spirit of generosity, or dāna.

Over two sessions (2.5 hours each), we will write as a route into hope-filled resilience.

In the second of a series of monthly live interviews with engaged Buddhist thought leaders, host Julia Sagebien interviews the Pamsula Zen Center’s Daiken Nelson Roshi about his understanding of engaged Buddhism. The interview will last 30 minutes and be followed by an opportunity for question and answers by viewers.

Through contemplative and creative practice, and collective inquiry, we hope to open space for renewal and relationship building among people who are engaged in both meditation and movements for justice, and who are living and working in the land of the Lenape people. This 3-day, non-residential retreat in Philadelphia will be led by, and will lift up the voices and priorities of BIPOC, trans, queer, disabled, and/or immigrant spiritual/political/creative practitioners.

This year’s Environmental Joy will build on the historic post-election conference of 2024 to develop how environmental justice communities, policy-makers, and scholars will define the tools and policies that come next. At its core, the conference will center on joy to inspire hope, direction, and action.