What does a life devoted to peace, ecology and spiritual practice teach us about living through times of profound uncertainty and change? Come and celebrate Satish Kumar with us, hear stories and wisdom gathered across his remarkable life, and find out what he believes these times are asking of us now.

Communities of faith, conscience, and spiritual or religious practice are uniquely poised to provide care and connection to their communities during major events like smoke, excessive heat, or this upcoming election. MNIPL's Community Climate Resilience Network (CCRN) brings together interested communities to learn more about what it takes to become a resilience hub or to coordinate with other resilience hubs before, during, and after times of need. These sessions offer training and conversation with other interested groups and are the first step towards becoming a place of refuge and support for your neighbors.

If you love the natural world, feel concerned about what is happening to our planet, wonder how Buddhist practice can respond, or simply want to explore how we might live more lightly and compassionately, you are warmly invited. Perhaps, in the face of such a vast crisis, one of the most important questions is not simply “What can I do?” but “How can I keep my heart open?”

We are in a time of tremendous endings, dissolution, and collapse, but something always comes after that. What does it mean to live in a time of such profound change? What needs to end for the next to begin? How do we recognize, support, and join the new possibilities rising out of the burned-over ground of our time? This program on socially engaged Buddhism will be led by Roshi Joan Halifax, Valerie Brown, Terry Tempest Williams, Rebecca Solnit, Molly Crockett, and Christiana Figueres.

The Story of Angulimala may be of particular interest to those who feel angry, confused, or despairing about the present state of the world. The story is rich with themes that speak to us now: conflict and divisiveness, how views and misinformation shape our choices, the ripple effects of our actions on others, the value of ethics, and the possibility of true transformation.

Terry Tempest Williams will help us hold the space between light and dark, love and grief, through the theme of Reverence.

Join us in discovering ways to overcome our conditioning to transactional resource exchange and discover what abundance looks like.

This year, Jews and Poles and Germans, Palestinians and Israelis, Buddhists and Christians and Atheists, descendants of victims and descendants of perpetrators will gather again in Auschwitz-Birkenau to bear witness. We will sit at the Selection Site, read the names aloud, share silence and council, and come together each evening in one great circle. We invite you to join us.

Undoing Patriarchy is a monthly group of Zen practitioners, conditioned as or identifying as men, exploring patriarchy’s effects on us and our communities, connecting to the sacred masculine and feminine, and repairing the damage patriarchy has done to everyone along the gender spectrum. The meetings take place every third Sunday.

The Community Climate Circle is a calm, gentle online space, guided by trauma-informed coach and ecotherapist Kathryn Sheridan. It is a place to share our emotions and feelings about the Climate and Ecological Emergency, not a space for practical solutions or policy discussions. Kathryn is a Buddhist practitioner in the Plum Village tradition and a Tariki Trust Ten Directions graduate.