Explore Mind & Life’s work on the environment, searchable by type, secondary topic, and year.
Environment Offerings
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4 Ways Mindfulness in Nature Can Help Us Heal Ourselves and the Earth
Mind and Life Institute • May 18, 2024
Topics: Environment | Interconnection | Mental Health
Mind & Life Videos
Mansi Kotak—Seeding the Future Through Contemplative Gardening
Mind and Life Institute • April 25, 2024
Topics: Education | Environment | Stress & Resilience
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Investigating Nature-based Contemplative Education
Sheila Kinkade • April 12, 2024
Topics: Education | Environment | Mental Health
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Lessons from the Milpa: Exploring Indigenous Contemplative Practices for a More Sustainable and Connected Future
Sheila Kinkade • March 27, 2024
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection
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Sharing the Power of Nature-Based Contemplative Practices for Inner Peace and Collective Well-Being
Brynn Pedrick • November 13, 2023
Topics: Education | Environment | Stress & Resilience
A Future We Can Love Livestream
Book Launch at the Rubin Museum
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change
Blog
Bridging Contemplative Practice and Climate Action: One Community’s Experience
Sheila Kinkade • June 5, 2023
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection
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Combining Mindfulness Training with Climate Education: One Researcher’s Journey
Sheila Kinkade • April 10, 2023
Topics: Education | Environment | Mindfulness
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Turning Over a New Leaf: 2023 President’s Letter
Susan Bauer-Wu • January 25, 2023
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection
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“The Time for the Lone Wolf is Over:” Coming Together and Facing Eco-Anxiety
Brynn Pedrick • August 12, 2022
Topics: Environment | Interconnection | Mindfulness
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Connection and Creativity Inspire Jessie and Richard Benjamin to Support Mind & Life
Brynn Pedrick • July 15, 2022
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Social Change
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Facing the Climate Crisis through Connection, Community, and Compassion
Mind and Life Institute • May 16, 2022
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life Videos
Connection, Community, and Compassion: Resources for our Emotional Well-being
Mind and Life Institute • May 16, 2022
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life Videos
The Dalai Lama – The Planet is our Home
Mind and Life Institute • May 5, 2022
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection
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Listening to Our Body’s Intelligence: Reflections from Mind & Life’s Summer Research Institute
Megan Lindow • March 10, 2022
Topics: Body-based Practices | Environment | Interconnection
Inspiring Minds – January 2022
From Climate Distress to Climate Action
Topics: Environment | Social Change | Stress & Resilience
Varela Grant
Merging mindfulness and climate change education
Jyoti Mishra
Topics: Environment | Mindfulness
Varela Grant
Documenting Mayan Milpa biocultural heritage through embodied ethnoecology
Erika Diaz-Almeyda
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment
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Transformative Social and Emotional Learning as a Catalyst for Climate Action
Meena Srinivasan • September 28, 2021
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Education | Environment | Social Change
Think Tanks
Contemplative Environmental Mentoring Communities
Paul Wapner, Julie Tato, Matias Franchini, Matthew Hoffmann, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue
Topics: Education | Environment | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life Videos
Vandana Shiva – Earth Democracy: Connecting the Rights of Mother Earth and the Well Being of All
Mind and Life Institute • August 13, 2021
Topics: Environment | Interconnection | Self & Other
Mind & Life Videos
A Conversation with Christiana Figueres: The Case for Stubborn Optimism
Mind and Life Institute • August 13, 2021
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Roshi Joan Halifax – Integrity & Moral Suffering in Relation to the Climate Catastrophe and Health
Mind and Life Institute • August 13, 2021
Topics: Environment | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience
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6 Days, 28 Speakers, 1 Powerful Message: The Climate Crisis, It’s a Relationship Problem
Mind and Life Institute • July 12, 2021
Topics: Environment | Mindfulness | Social Change
2021 Summer Research Institute
The Mind, the Human-Earth Connection, and the Climate Crisis
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection
2021 Online Speaker Series
The Mind, the Human-Earth Connection, and the Climate Crisis
Topics: Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
A Conversation with Christiana Figueres: The Case for Stubborn Optimism
Christiana Figueres, Susan Bauer-Wu
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Social Change
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2021 Summer Research Institute Session
How to Give the Future a Chance: Mind, Earth, and Climate Change
Elke Weber
Topics: Environment | Social Change
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Playing the Long Game: Seeing the World, Being Ourselves & Bringing the Possible
Carolyn Finney
Topics: Environment | Self & Other
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
The Timing of Climate Change
Kyle Whyte
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Social Change
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Placing Ourselves with/in the Planet: Story-sharing as Presence, Just Action, and Healing
Barbara (Bobbi) Patterson
Topics: Environment | Interconnection
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Film & Panel: “Storytelling, Science, and Hope: Climate Feedback Loops Film & Panel”
Moderators: nischal neupane
Panel: Bonnie Waltch, Donald Perovich, Thupten Jinpa, nischal neupane
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Stress & Resilience
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Altruism and Wonderment: Towards a Sustainable Harmony
Matthieu Ricard
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Interconnection
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Panel Discussion: Science Forum: The Science of Social Change for Sustainability
Moderators: Elissa Epel
Panel: Christine Wamsler, Ed Maibach, Karen O' Brien, Elissa Epel
Topics: Environment | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Social Change
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Earth Democracy : Connecting the Rights of Mother Earth and the Well Being of All
Vandana Shiva
Topics: Environment | Interconnection | Self & Other
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2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Mindfulness, Co-benefits, and Behavioral Eco-Wellness
Bruce Barrett
Topics: Environment | Mental Health | Mindfulness
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Don’t Look Down: How to Build Bridges with Unlikely Allies
Dekila Chungyalpa
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Environment | Social Change
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Integrity and Moral Suffering in Relation to the Climate Catastrophe and Health
Roshi Joan Halifax
Topics: Environment | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience
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2021 Summer Research Institute Session
The Critical Role of Behavioral Science in Climate Change
Elissa Epel
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Environment
2021 Summer Research Institute Session
Panel Discussion: “Love, Spirit and Community: How to Build Intersectional Climate Youth Movements”
Oladosu Adenike Titilope, Lyla June
Topics: Environment | Interconnection
Blog
5 Reasons Not to Miss Mind & Life’s 2021 Summer Research Institute and Speaker Series
Mind and Life Institute • March 19, 2021
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Social Change
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Creating the Future We Want: The Role of Contemplative Practice and Climate Action
Frances Steele • March 17, 2021
Topics: Environment | Social Change
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The Dalai Lama, Greta Thunberg, and Leading Scientists Share Urgent Message to Protect the Planet
Mind and Life Institute • January 12, 2021
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection
2021 Mind & Life Conversation on the Crisis of Climate Feedback Loops
The Dalai Lama with Greta Thunberg and Leading Scientists: A Conversation on the Crisis of Climate Feedback Loops
Topics: Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
PEACE Grant
Balancing hope and fear: Resourcing climate activists for sustainable environmental justice work
Brooke D. Lavelle, Kristina Eichel
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session
Keynote and Q&A: “Contemplative Studies: An Ecological Methodology for Multidisciplinarity”
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Environment
Think Tanks
International Society for Contemplative Research
Linda Carlson, Amishi Jha, Erin McCarthy, Harold Roth, Zindel Segal, David Vago, Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Environment | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change | Stress & Resilience
Mind & Life Videos
2019 Mind & Life Conversation with the Dalai Lama & David Sloan Wilson
Mind and Life Institute • October 30, 2019
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Environment | Interconnection
Think Tanks
Wise Climate Actions & Sacred Activism
Vivian Valentin, Radhule Weininger, Michael Kearney, John Foran, Kevin M Gallagher
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Blog
Nature & Well-Being: Gratitude
Sheena Kachru, Zachary Taylor • June 29, 2017
Topics: Environment | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience
Blog
An Exploration of Nature, Mindfulness and Well-Being
Joanna Shaw, Hannah Woodruff • June 27, 2017
Topics: Body-based Practices | Environment | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Opening Keynote – Diana Chapman Walsh
Mind and Life Institute • October 30, 2014
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Social Change
2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – Meditation, Ecology, and Subjectivity: Performing Entangled Selves
Antonio Carvalho
Topics: Environment | Self & Other
2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
ISCS Opening Keynote
Diana Chapman Walsh
Topics: Compassion & Empathy | Environment | Social Change
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2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Pre-Conference Workshop – Environmental Education
Jaimie Cloud, Patricia St. Onge
Topics: Education | Environment | Interconnection
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 10
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 9
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 8
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 7
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 6
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 5
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 4
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 3
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 2
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 1
Mind and Life Institute • October 21, 2011
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
2011 Mind & Life Dialogue XXIII
Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence
Topics: Contemplative Wisdom | Environment | Interconnection | Social Change
