EcoDharma Explorations

EcoDharma Explorations are a monthly offering featuring live sessions on Sundays. This series is developed and produced through a collaboration with Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock’s ecoDharma & Transformational Culture Program and One Earth Sangha. We’re honored and excited to work with these partners.

EcoDharma Exploration occur on the fourth Sunday of every month. We send an announcement via our email list as soon as registration is open. All sessions are recorded and offered with the invitation to support the featured guest as well as these organizations. 

Featured Guests

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The EcoSattva Journey

How might we not just be with the collectives troubles, but take them up on the invitation for collective transformation?

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How to Nurture Beloved Community in Divided Times

How might these uncertain times be a pathway towards deeper trust, equanimity, and a loving, powerful network of true belonging?

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The Power of Remembering the Indigenous Design of American Democracy

What’s at the core of American Democracy? What might The Great Law of Peace have to say about our perilous time of today?

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Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse

Talking story, weaving poetry, and offering wisdom at the intersections of strategy, politics, and spiritual activism, When No Thing Works is a visionary guide to co-creating new worlds from one in crisis. It asks into the ways we can live well and maintain our wholeness in an era of collective acceleration: the swiftly moving current, fed and shaped by human actions, that sweeps us toward ever uncertain futures.

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Can Indigenous Wisdom Help Us Heal Our Minds, Communities, and Planet?

After over a decade as a leading climate scientist, Zen Buddhist teacher Kritee Kanko embraced "Reindigenizing". Here, she explores the polycrisis’s roots, trauma-climate links, tipping points, and Indigenous knowledge systems, inviting us to reconnect with ecosystems and communities for resilience.

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Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse

As we face the poly-crisis, how do we escalate our actions without escalating a worldview that keeps us from interdependence? How can we view injustice as a manifestation of collective trauma? How can the Dharma support us in a skillful response?

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A Work that Reconnects Spiral Gathering

What might the Earth desire from us this Earth Day? Alex Julie guides a Work That Reconnects spiral practice to ground in gratitude, lean into grief, and clear our heart-minds enough to listen for the Earth.

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Standing in Fierce Compassion in this Age of Reckoning

As extractive systems collapse and uncertainty rises, how do we stay present and act with wisdom? This session explores Dharma teachings and meditative grounding for meeting grief and the call to disrupt and reimagine with courage.

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Cultivating a Practice of Generative Expansion → Contraction → Action

Can we live with species extinction, 1.2 billion human climate refugees by 2050, and other environmental emergencies? Can we function daily, find joy, care for children and elders, continue to be of service?

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Nourishing helpful flows of goods and services

On Sunday, January 26, 2025, business leader and deep dharma practitioner, Rebecca Henderson, spoke with our director Kristin Barker and explored new possibilities for economic frameworks.