Join us as we co-create a Dharma culture capable of meeting the world’s challenges with resilience, compassion, and unwavering commitment to justice, healing, and mutual liberation.

In conversation and in meditation, we’ll explore noticing and accommodating our emotions, building resilience, and working with the energies of these emotions in the body. Perhaps most of all, we’ll join together to build community — to know that we’re not alone.

The fires of the world have been very hot. There is injustice, climate crisis, and the degradation of dignity and truth. How do we find refuge in the Dhamma while remaining fully in relationship with the world and its pain? What are our sources of joy, inspiration, and resilience at this point?

Drawing inspiration from the teachings of Joanna Macy and Francis Weller, this three-week practice group invites you to acknowledge and feel your grief – for yourself and for the world. Together, we will create a compassionate space to honor, embrace, and practice with all kinds of sorrows, including personal losses and the profound ecological grief of our times.

Join Kritee (Kanko), Imtiaz Rangwala and Bianca Acosta for this retreat designed for empowering anyone who cares about the healing and belonging in these wild times of polycrisis (climate, genocidal wars, xenophobia, pollution, rise of fascism and mental health crisis).

This hybrid retreat with Lama Liz Monson and Staci Haines will explore how personal and collective somatic practices and meditation allow us to come into alignment with our deepest aspirations and values. As a result, we learn to embody ways of being and acting that support not only our individual healing and growth, but also the transformative potential of our collective action in the world.

A 6 month course with Lin Wang Gordon and Jon Aaron. The purpose of this course is to nurture climate resilience through learning about meditation practices and Buddhist philosophy, and to cultivate wisdom by directly working with the Earth through volunteering at an urban farm.

The “Gathering Dharma” Sunday series is about compassion, connection and collective action. It is a time to explore social and environmental engagement and to affirm our vows in a time of great challenge on our earth.

The Ecology of Self can help participants consider their unique gifts, backgrounds, and life situations to envision actionable steps towards promoting a more socially and ecologically harmonious world.

We will explore themes around climate anxiety, the harm of individual and collective narcissism, connecting to the awakened consciousness of the earth as well as the sky, and developing renewed visions for climate change organizing and activism based on the recognition that all systems of violence intersect with climate change work. We will be relying on Lama Rod’s newest book, The New Saints, along with ancient Buddhist based practices.