The 3 Tenets of Zen Peacemakers: Not-Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Taking Action. Our third tenet is taking loving action from not knowing and bearing witness. This vow makes Zen Peacemakers unique. This is how we engage and reach out with helping hands to relieve suffering in our troubled world. Please join us to share your work, your project, and your own taking action with others. This circle will be held monthly in 2026.

Join Zen priest and psychologist Seth Segall, and meditation teacher Linda Modaro to find guidance and support through Buddhist wisdom and community. Together, we’ll learn about cultivating the courage to act in the face of fear and despair, and how to develop a wise response based on compassion and wisdom.

In this training, we look at how we make sense of the world in order to act in it. Story and narrative will be at the core of the exploration, both as a way of understanding and sense-making and as an activator of creative imaginations that take us beyond what we see around us; also in relation to the "more-than-human" realms.

Over the course of four 2 hour workshops, we offer a space to come together to explore personal and collective responses to our warming world. Through a mix of creativity, mindfulness, nature-based exercises and more, you will learn to share your hopes, fears and dreams in order to live more easily with them and with each other.

Join us for a personal conversation with Michael Nagler – a pioneer in the field of Peace and Conflict studies who has dedicated his life to the values of nonviolence and spiritual discovery. Together we will explore the significance of nonviolence for the times we are living through and what it might mean to write a new story of human nature guided by the principles of nonviolence. This dialogue between Michael Nagler and Kerstin Deibert is part of the Buddhist Peace & Conflict Chaplaincy Speaker Series.

This program with offers a unique and deep journey into deep embodied listening as a way of life. How we listen is how we perceive. Our capacity to see with the heart - and respond skillfully and courageously - stems from the quality with which we listen, within and out, to ourselves, each other, and the natural world. There are personal, interpersonal, transpersonal, societal, ecological, and mystical implications to this way of listening. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, until January 15, 2026.

This conversation will explore the varied spiritual responses to the intelligences of nature and the implications for our current ecological challenges. It will highlight the new Living Earth Community website as a source reference for this discussion.

Drawing on decades of Zen training, Indigenous Hawaiian knowledge, political strategy, and community practice, Norma shares the internal and collective shifts required to evolve with intention. Her teachings challenge us to release the logic of othering and splintering, to root ourselves in the mutual responsibilities of aloha and kuleana, and to step into the messy work asked of us in a timeplace of collapse.

Join Mark Coleman, Kirsten Rudestam, and Yong Oh for a 5-month intensive to nourish the inner ground from which meaningful action can grow. The program is designed especially for people working for ecological integrity and environmental justice, especially those feeling the weight of grief, exhaustion, or burnout. This offering is shared free of charge as part of Spirit Rock’s EcoDharma and Transformational Culture Program.

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.