Course Resources
Updates on the Course
- All eight course sessions are available now. You will not lose access to these materials, so you can start when you like and proceed at your own pace.
- March 10: Join us for our next monthly EcoSattva Training Live Gathering, open only to participants in the training.
- Thanks to the generosity of Intersein Stiftung (Interbeing Foundation), German subtitles are available for all core videos in the 2021-22 version of the training. Access 2021-22 Course Resources
- Guided practices are now more portable! Each session’s meditation can now be downloaded as an MP3 audio file onto the device(s) of your choice.
Resources for Your Journey
As you move through training, we invite you to explore ways of working with the materials that are nourishing and effective for you (and your group, if you belong to one). If you are looking for guidance, our Resources for Your Journey page provides:
- Two guided meditation videos specifically for participants in the training, courtesy of Catherine McGee
- Detailed instructions on inquiry practice created by Adam Lobel
- Shared agreements and a sample meeting format for groups
- Container practices to open and close your exploration of each session
Session Format
Each session includes the following components:
- Opening ritual
- Welcome from Kristin Barker or Lou Leonard
- Core Dharma offerings: video teachings from the session leader(s)
- Contemplations, inquiries, and other practices to help you internalize the teachings with body, mind, and heart.
- Resources for groups and individuals to make the most of the materials.
- Supplemental articles, videos, and Dharma sources relating to the content of the Session.
- Closing ritual
Arc of the Journey
The EcoSattva Training unfolds over the course of eight sessions, as illustrated here. Materials for each session are available below.
Session Resources
Available Now
- with Kaira Jewel Lingo
We’ll begin by gathering and reflecting on our global situation, mapping out our journey, and setting the conditions for empowered, compassionate response.
- with Damchö Diana Finnegan
In this journey we are likely to meet fear, grief, anger, and other difficult emotions. In investigating these strong energies, we can discover spiritual resources that can help us hold them.
- with Britt Wray
Here we open to the suffering we may find in our own experience. We explore how it is to be with this world as we perceive it and allow the impacts to be named and honored. We explore the narratives that we carry about ourselves, others, and this world, both helpful and unhelpful.
- with Larry Ward, Michael Yellow Bird and Peggy Rowe Ward
Ecological harm is inextricably tied to systems of oppression. Participants are invited to explore, with compassionate accountability, how the dominant structures objectify Earth and all her beings, ultimately harming all.
- with Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Adam Lobel
To be authentically helpful necessitates radical comfort with the unknown. We must metabolize our mind-boggling, heartrending situation and learn to recognize the endless possibilities contained therein.
- with Adam Lobel
As we continue attuning to wild uncertainty, we might begin to contact new yearnings, new potential for manifestation. What is the biosphere asking of us? When we touch into silence and stillness, what possible futures can we sense?
- with Sensei Kritee Kanko and Tim Ream
Equipped with a deeply rooted sense of our belonging and calling, we turn outward, discovering the domains of our EcoSattva action.
- with Mark Coleman and Myokei Caine-Barrett
In the closing session, we’ll return to our individual aspirations or visions to refine and affirm, and explore the boundless potential of Sangha as the heart of our engagement.
Questions?
If anything is unclear, we invite you to check out our Frequently Asked Questions. If you can’t find what you’re looking for there, send an email to . We’ll do our best to get back to you quickly.