What do we and our societal systems need to transform given how we are now experiencing a cascade of environmental, climate, and social crises globally and locally? Dekila Chungyalpa, the founding director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been working with faith leaders and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions for over 18 years, collaborating on solutions that answer this question.
In this gathering, Dekila will invite us to follow our breath to the very source of the greatest compassion; Mother Earth herself; as a practice that can fill us up with courage and sustain us for what is to come. She will weave her personal story as the daughter of a Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher, the environmental values she was taught while growing up in Sikkim in the Eastern Himalayas, the lessons she learned while working on biodiversity conservation around the world, and the realizations that led her to bridge the worlds of faith and science.
