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  • The Rita Summit: Resilience In The Anthropocene

    "We invite you to join us for a 3-day FREE online summit hosted by the Loka Initiative that brings together researchers, academics, experts from communities most impacted by environmental devastation and climate change, clinical psychology practitioners, and contemplative leaders to discuss eco-anxiety and climate distress within a framework of inner, community, and planetary resilience.

    Speakers:

    Helen Adams
    Carmen Alonso
    Yuria Celidwen
    Dekila Chungyalpa
    Susan Clayton
    Leslie Davenport
    Richard Davidson
    Elissa Epel
    Adrienne Hampton
    Rev. Fletcher Harper
    Kyle X Hill
    Tisha Holmes
    Sará King
    Diana Liverman
    Dominique Malebranche
    Brian McInnes
    Damaris Miller
    Jyoti Mishra
    Musonda Mumba
    Tamara Toles O’Laughlin
    Lama Rod Owens
    Jacqui Patterson
    Rev. Bobbi Patterson
    Panu Pihkala
    Mingyur Rinpoche
    Beth Sawin
    LaUra Schmidt
    Farhana Sultana
    Mary Evelyn Tucker
    Jennifer Uchendu
    Christy Wilson-Mendenhall"

  • One Earth Sangha

    "While insecurity is inherent in being alive, life on Earth is pervasively more and more vulnerable. The biosphere’s ability to support all forms of life, including human society, is increasingly uncertain. While impacts and timelines vary consistent with existing patterns of oppression, none will ultimately escape the pervasive loss of ecological health currently underway. Average global temperatures, ocean acidification, and sea levels all rise while dramatic fires and storms punctuate Earth’s changing atmosphere. At the ground level, fresh water and fertile topsoil are in decline around the world. Meanwhile, the loss of life other-than-human, the creatures and rooted ones crafted by nature over millennia, goes on in the background in numbers and consequence largely unknown."

  • Reducing Eco-Anxiety

    "There are days when I feel that climate change is the only thing that matters and that the tragedy of it is unbearable. I feel simultaneously like screaming on the street and hiding under the covers.

    At least I know that I’m not alone. According to a 2020 study by the American Psychiatric Association, over half of Americans said they were somewhat or extremely anxious about the impact of climate change.

    And they – we – are right. There aren’t enough words in this newsletter to describe the scope of this tragedy, which has just begun to unfold. Massive species and habitat loss. At least 250,000 deaths each year from 2030-2050, according to WHO projections. Up to a billion climate and food refugees, with attendant conflicts and disasters. Increased wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and pandemics. Covid-19 is a picnic compared to what’s in store for our children.

    So what can we do?..."

  • What to do About Eco-Anxiety

    "In the mental health community, there’s a new term: “Eco-Anxiety.”

    Our guest in this episode, Jay Michaelson, has been thinking hard about climate change for many, many years. Michaelson is a meditation teacher, rabbi, lawyer, activist, and journalist. And he is also a core teacher in the Ten Percent Happier app. He’s covered climate change extensively, and has taught environmental ethics at Boston University Law School and Chicago Theological Seminary. He has also been a leading environmental activist in religious communities.

    In this conversation, we talk about what Jay thinks some meditation teachers get wrong about climate change, what he calls the “delusion” that individual habit change can make an impact, how we can use meditation to engage more effectively in the kind of politics he says we need to move the needle on a systemic level, and how to use meditation and deep breathing to handle eco-anxiety."