How do we motivate people, especially young adults, to deal with climate-change issues when they are remote from its effects, leaving them unmoved, or conversely, when they are on the receiving end of a catastrophe, leaving them overwhelmed? The standard motivator for climate activism has been fear, but it cannot sustain our actions in the …
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2019 Mind & Life Conversation with the Dalai Lama & David Sloan Wilson
The first session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s conversations with key thought leaders on “Compassion, Interconnection, and Transformation” organized by the Mind & Life Institute at his residence in Dharamsala, India on October 30th and November 1st, 2019. Participants
Nature & Well-Being: Gratitude
Part 4 in a weeklong series of blog posts written by undergraduate students from the 2017 spring-semester class, “Mindfulness & Compassion: Living Fully Personally and Professionally” at the University of Virginia. Introduction Sitting on the beach, hearing the waves lap gently against the sand as the stars make their appearance into the sky, it is …
An Exploration of Nature, Mindfulness and Well-Being
Part 2 in a weeklong series of blog posts written by undergraduate students from the 2017 spring-semester class, “Mindfulness & Compassion: Living Fully Personally and Professionally” at the University of Virginia. Introduction As a second year student at the University of Virginia, I started to notice myself living in a state of frenzy. I was …
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Concurrent Session 3 – Meditation, Ecology, and Subjectivity: Performing Entangled Selves
The main goal of this presentation is to explore the entanglements betweentechnologies of the self and ecology. I am particularly interested in the ways in which the modern self — characterized by Elias as the homo clausus and by Watts as the skin-encapsulated ego — can be suspended, eroding the dualism between self and others, …
ISCS 2014 – Opening Keynote – Diana Chapman Walsh
Education for Ethical and Compassionate Leadership
ISCS Opening Keynote
Education for Ethical and Compassionate Leadership We live in a time of increasingly fragile social institutions: a political system distorted by increases in inequality; financial markets that create unsustainable debt; and an economy that drives a scarcity mentality and ever-escalating consumption, diminishing the quality of time-starved and stress-filled lives. We have crises in health care, …
Pre-Conference Workshop – Environmental Education
We are at a moment in time when the thriving of all beings on our Planet Mother is in question. What happens when we become aware and engaged as members of living systems? How does that awareness bring deeper meaning to learning within and outside of formal education systems that cultivates a more sustainable life? …
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Mind & Life XXIII – Session 10
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence” on October 20-21, 2011. Discussion among participants and His Holiness’s final remarks Session 10 of “Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence”, the Mind and Life XXIII conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in dialogue with contemplative scholars, activists and ecological scientists who …
Mind & Life XXIII – Session 9
Filmed during Mind & Life Institute’s “Mind & Life XXIII: Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence” on October 20-21, 2011. Topic Three – Ethics and Action The Skillful Means of ActivismSPEAKER: Dekila Chungyalpa What does successful activism look like? Laws against child labor, reservation quotas for scheduled tribes and castes, protection of wildlife preserves are examples of …
