Logo Black
One Earth Sangha
Donate

One Earth Wisdom:

EcoDharma Exploration

Transforming Powerlessness

Let’s Bring Healing and Justice to a Suffering World

Dharma teacher John Bell, and Program Manager of Beloved Community Circles, Coryna Ogunseitan, were our featured guests for the EcoDharma Exploration on September 22, 2024. Please find the recording below and welcome your support for this program.

Ant Bridge Crossing
Igor Chuxlancev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What would we do for the healing of the world if we were not afraid? How are feelings of powerlessness hindering our climate and racial justice work? What helps us feel our power to make a difference?

Feelings of powerlessness are a pervasive and often unnamed obstacle to organizing to create the world we wish to live in. Based on the Beloved Community Circles model, this EcoDharma Exploration co-presented by John Bell and Coryna Ogunseitan offered this program to:

  • Investigate ways we learn to feel powerless
  • Introduce practices to help heal those feelings
  • Explore an emerging collective action network to better fulfill our aspiration to bring healing and justice to a suffering world.
John Bell
No job exists for this author (41371).

John Bell, True Wonderful Wisdom, (pronouns he/him) is a Plum Village Buddhist Dharma teacher who lives near Boston, MA, USA. He is a founding staff member and former vice president of YouthBuild USA, an international non-profit that provides learning, earning, and leadership opportunities to young people from low-income backgrounds. He is an author, lifelong social justice activist, international trainer facilitator, father and grandfather. He is the author of YouthBuild’s North Star, and Unbroken Wholeness: Six Pathways to the Beloved Community: Integrating Social Justice, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Practice.

     Pieces on One Earth Sangha
Coryna Ogunseitan
No job exists for this author (41373).

Coryna Ogunseitan (they/them and she/her) is the program manager of Beloved Community Circles, where she focuses on developing and implementing programming to support the enormously diverse group of people who comprise new and existing Circles. Coryna is also a PhD researcher in the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Program in Medical Anthropology, where their research focuses on the impacts of climate change on mental health and how climate change reshapes affective relationships with the natural world.

     Pieces on One Earth Sangha

Support this Offering

One Earth Sangha and our featured speakers offer these explorations on a donation basis, with no required registration fee. We invite you to participate in the tradition of offering dana, or generosity. Your support makes these gatherings possible, and any amount offered is greatly appreciated.

Support One Earth Sangha
Another way to support us is to share what this exploration has meant to you in a way that we can use in our materials. We invite you to share a “testimonial” here! (select “EcoDharma Exploration Participant” from the dropdown menu.)
Share a Testimonial

Recording

Additional Resources

Support This Program

Support John Bell and Coryna Ogunseitan: Your generosity of dana or donations is gladly accepted as a contribution to the Beloved Community Circles:

  • Checks can be sent to Beloved Community Circles, 366 Marsh St, Belmont, MA 02478
  • Online donations can be made through the website, Beloved Community Circles

More EcoDharma Explorations

Upcoming

Photo by Ezra Jeffrey-Comeau on Unsplash
Picture of Rebecca Henderson

Reimagining Capitalism

A conversation with Rebecca Henderson and Kristin Barker

On January 26, 2025, join us for this EcoDharma Exploration with business leader and deep dharma practitioner, Rebecca Henderson to explore new possibilities for capitalism and whether this system can be reformed and – if not – what the possible alternatives might be.
Learn More & Register

Past

Green-leafed tree on body of water under starry sky.
Picture of Zhiwa Woodbury

What Now?

A Relational Approach to Building Solidarity

What can happen when we avail ourselves to the full implications of interdependence? How can we clear the way for this challenging and yet world-shaping insight?
Watch Recording
Zhiwa Woodbury

Past

Storm surge
Picture of Adam Lobel  and  Kristin Barker

Deep Roots, Strong Branches

Cultivating a Steady and Loving Presence as We Approach the US Election

One Earth Sangha's Guiding Teachers, Adam Lobel, along with our director, Kristin Barker, led a gathering to cultivate the powerful qualities that can see us through even the most challenging times.
Watch Recording
All EcoDharma Explorations
Instagram Facebook Linkedin Insight Timer
Instagram Facebook Linkedin Insight Timer

No Mud, No Lotus

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

We are building a global network of individuals and communities committed to transforming the human-earth relationship through Dharma wisdom and practice. We hope you’ll join us. 

Follow us on social media, sign up for our mailing list, share this with friends, and we’ll see you at our next event.

  Back to top
© 2013–2025 One Earth Sangha.
One Earth Sangha is a fiscally sponsored project of Inquiring Systems, Inc. EIN: 94-2524840