Often times climate change—and its urgency—is narrated through linear time. When narrated like a ticking clock, the sense that swift action is needed obscures responsibilities to others who risk being harmed by solutions to climate change. This presentation will then offer four different Indigenous approaches to narrating climate change: “depth time,” “seasonal time,” “kinship time,” …
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A Conversation with Christiana Figueres: The Case for Stubborn Optimism
Christiana Figueres is renowned for having delivered the seemingly impossible. During her tenure as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from 2010-2016, she brought together national and sub-national governments, corporations, activists, financial institutions, communities of faith, think tanks, and technology providers to jointly deliver the unprecedented, historic Paris climate …
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Meditation: “A Guided Compassion Meditation”
Drawing on CCT (Compassion Cultivation Training), a protocol developed at Stanford and widely studied, in this session Thupten Jinpa will lead through a guided practice focusing on two key themes: Setting your Intention and Connecting with Our Common Humanity. The guided practice will be interspersed with brief explanations of key constructs, their rationale, and underlying theory of change, …
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Panel Discussion: “What Does Spirituality Mean To US?”
People across the U.S. have shared their personal experiences and perspectives about spirituality and religion in a national research study completed this year. Commissioned by the Fetzer Institute, the study aimed to learn more about the beliefs, behaviors, and benefits that undergird people’s spiritual and religious identification, and their relationship to community and civic life. …
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Keynote and Q&A: “Contemplative Studies: An Ecological Methodology for Multidisciplinarity”
Building on the conception of ‘ecological phenomenology’ that Maria Heim and Ram have developed, and which he has written about in his recent book, he will share that there is a deep ‘ecological’ conception of being human in the contemplative traditions that could provide a paradigm for looking at the disciplinary and reflexive phenomenology of …
Meditation: “Cultivating Equanimity” and Contemplative Arts
Equanimity is often mistaken for indifference. In fact, equanimity is the very quality that is needed when the stakes are high and you are deeply concerned about the outcome. It allows us to recover perspective and balance in order to see clearly and act with wisdom. Like all contemplative virtues, it can be trained. In …
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Morning Yoga: “Prana and Chi: Moving the Elements”
It all needs a place to go. Our thoughts. Our breath. Our bodies. Our spirits. Being physically confined and isolated does create an opportunity for deep emotional, mental, and spiritual exploration. The breath is the gateway to this inner sanctum. The breath is the bridge between the body and mind. During this session we cultivate …
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Morning Yoga: “Trul khor: Tibetan Yoga”
Wake up your body’s energetic dimension of channels and chakras through the ancient contemplative practice of Tibetan yoga (Trul khor). This practice explores the potential of your body, breath and mind for clearing obstacles, and being doorways to your openness and clarity in meditation practice, and your everyday life. We will also learn some of …
Opening Remarks and Contemplative Arts
This session will include opening remarks from Mind & Life President, Susan Bauer-Wu and conference Co-Chairs, Linda Carlson and John Dunne. Grant Jones will feature music as a medium to heal. His offering will draw from soul, alternative, and contemplative music traditions and seek to invite folks into feeling deeply. An ultimate aim for Grant …
On the Dalai Lama’s Birthday, a New Film Calls Us to Embrace Our Shared Humanity
To celebrate the Dalai Lama’s birthday on July 6th, Mind & Life is pleased to announce the release of a new film, “Evolution of the Heart.” The film pays tribute to the Dalai Lama’s lifelong spirit of inquiry and values he has long championed: compassion, forgiveness, cooperation, altruism, and kindness. The documentary chronicles profound conversations …
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