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EcoDharma Exploration

Reindigenizing: Finding Our Way Through the Polycrisis

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

Zen Buddhist teacher Kritee Kanko led this EcoDharma Exploration on June 22. A recording will be available soon.

For the rest of 2025, our EcoDharma Explorations will be co-created by Braided Wisdom and Spirit Rock as part of a new initiative, the EcoDharma & Transformational Culture Program. Look for more programming from this collaboration over the next few months and years. We at One Earth Sangha are honored and excited to work with our new partners.

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After working as a leading climate scientist with a powerful environmental organization in the U.S. for over a decade, Kritee stepped away from the mainstream climate movement to focus on Ecodharma and what she calls “Reindigenizing”—a personal and collective journey back to Earth-honoring, shamanic and animist ways of living. In this Ecodharma exploration, she’ll share why stepping away felt crucial to her. Together, we will explore questions like:

  • What is the global polycrisis? (Hint: It’s complicated.) What are its root causes?
  • How are childhood traumas, climate emergency, and racial injustices connected?
  • What are planetary boundaries, and how do they call us to respect the Earth more deeply?
  • Why do leading scientists say Indigenous knowledge systems are key to protecting all life?
  • How did your ancestors live as part of their ancestral lands or ecosystems? If that changed, when and why?
  • How can we more deeply honor the Earth and our life, community, and work—right where we are?

Join us for this conversation as we search for rooted and resilient ways forward in these wild times!

Sensei Kritee Kanko
Kritee Kanko

Kritee (dharma name Kanko) is a Climate Scientist, Zen Buddhist priest, Educator & Founding Spiritual Director of Boundless in Motion, a 501(c) nonprofit based in Boulder (Colorado). She served as a leading scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at Environmental Defense Fund for about 12 years. She is also an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain and a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. She has served as faculty for courses or retreats at the intersection of Climate justice, Trauma healing and Spirituality for many organizations including Stanford University, World Council of Churches, San Francisco Zen Center, Mind & Life Institute, and Al Gore’s Climate Reality. Her experience is that identifying and releasing our personal and ecological grief in presence of a loving community is necessary to reindigenize our ecosystems in this era of global polycrisis. Her articles, podcasts and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, BBC, Washington Post, Harvard Health, Yale Climate Connections, California Public Radio and Post Carbon Institute (See a few here). For more information, visit her website.

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This Exploration is part of a short series in collaboration with Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock’s ecoDharma & Transformational Culture Program and One Earth Sangha. We’re honored and excited to work with our new partners.

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This program has concluded. The recording will be made available on this page soon. 

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