What is our Buddhist response to the ruin of land and ecosystems resulting from our modern extractivist human-centric culture? What can we as contemplative practitioners do to pacify and restore our local places and landscapes? We invite you to join our multi-site action during Buddhist Action Month (with a discussion/guidance meeting on Tuesday June 2nd).

Hosted by Dharma teacher and social justice activist JoAnna Hardy, this series brings together visionary voices at the intersection of ecology, art, and the sacred. John Francis, the Planetwalker, spent 17 years in silence and 22 years walking the Earth as an act of devotion. Osprey Orielle Lake, founder of WECAN International, is a leading force in the global Rights of Nature movement. Poet and Guggenheim Fellow Camille Dungy illuminates the deep, often erased bonds between people of the African diaspora and the land.

BCD offers a monthly gathering for those who want to engage in mindful reflection and find practical ways to be more involved in making change happen. We get together on the third Wednesday of every month.

Join Tatiana for an empowering conversation exploring the principles and tools of restorative justice. Whether you are a teacher, mentor, leader, or facilitator, this conversation will illuminate ways to incorporate lessons from restorative justice and explore exercises that foster tenderness, self-reflection, and skillful attention on how to “make it right.”

We are inviting you to meet us in Circle to connect and engage in anti-Indigenous racism work that will help you understand and bring to action compassionate ways of knowing and responsibility. Together we will take a heart-centered journey through colonial history and explore the continuing impacts of racism in our communities and our Indigenous bodies. You will experience Indigenous teachings that will support you to connect your mind with your heart to enliven change in your personal life and within your professional communities.

This contemplative online circle explores the relationship between language, nature, and shared human experience. Facilitated by author, poet, and ecopsychologist Lorena Saavedra Smith, the group will engage poetry as a practice of mindful witnessing, listening to the ways Earth, body, and society inform one another. Sessions include a short meditation, a selected poem connected to a monthly theme, and sharing of original theme-inspired writings or reflections. No prior writing experience necessary.

A weekend of talks, panel discussions, breakout rooms and reflective practice. How can Buddhists respond with integrity to the great social and environmental challenges of our time – both directly and indirectly – rooted firmly in non-violent Dharma practice and perspectives?

Dhamma teacher and Buddhist scholar Maitriveer Nagarjuna will guide us in mindfulness practices through sitting and walking meditation, a dharma talk covering B. R. Ambedkar’s approach to engaged Buddhist practice, and group reflection.

Hosted by Lama Willa and Deborah Eden Tull, these gatherings invite us to experience Dharma not as fixed doctrine, but as a living, relational field—one that emerges spontaneously through authentic dialogue and shared presence. Guests for this series include Kazu Haga, Susie Harrington, Kritee Kanko, Adam Lobel, Thanissara, and Karen Waconda-Lewis, with additional guests to be announced. You only need to register once to access the full year of monthly Dharma Dialogues and you may join at any point during the series.

In this very special opportunity, we are honored to study and practice with the book 'The Fire Inside: the Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde', with its author Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, alongside SMS sangha leaders.