Contemplative Environmentalism
With Paul Wapner, Leticia Merino, & Julie Tato
July 14-19
$800
Recent political developments threaten to intensify social injustice and environmental collapse around the world. This workshop brings together environmental professors and activists to explore how best to teach and advocate in these challenging times. It provides tools for finding emotional strength, perfecting pedagogical skills, and cultivating activist courage at this historical moment.
Much of the workshop will focus on the interface between our inner lives and planetary realities. We will use meditation, deep listening, writing, yoga, immersion in nature, and other contemplative practices to infuse our environmental work with greater self-awareness and compassionate commitment. In this sense, the workshop aims to help us reset priorities, become ethically more alive, and live with greater personal and professional purpose. It offers a chance to focus on our deepest aspirations as teachers, activists, and human beings.
Please note: We ask interested participants to complete a brief application to explain why the workshop will be of benefit. To request an application and receive more information about the workshop, please email Leticia (merino@sociales.unam.mx) or Paul (pwapner@american.edu).
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Paul Wapner a professor emeritus of Global Environmental Politics at American University. His research focuses on environmental ethics, transnational activism, and environmental political thought. He serves on the board of Re-volv, a group that finances and installs solar on nonprofits. He is a longtime vipassana practitioner and served for twelve years as a trustee of the Lama Foundation.
Leticia Merino is an activist-scholar focused on sustainable forest management. She works with forest communities throughout Mexico to enhance just, ecologically sound, economically viable, and community based forest practices. This has included helping to resist corporate mining abuse and building community resilience. She is professor emeritus at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Julie Tato has practiced Insight meditation since 1988, primarily with Sharon Salzberg, Marcia Rose, and other western teachers, and in the Tibetan tradition with Tsoknyi Rinpoche. She has worked as a hospice chaplain and with people with disabilities. She is senior teacher in Taos Mountain Sangha and serves as trustee of the Lama Foundation.