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Mindful Eco-Awareness Series 2025

Islands of Belonging in a Sea of Climate Chaos

with Kritee Kanko

Thursday May 1st

10am-12:30pm EDT; 7-9:30am PDT; 4-6:30pm CEST

This 2.5 hour interactive and contemplative talk will be interwoven with sharing of

1) climate science myths and truths

2) the spiritual and cultural root causes of the climate crisis

3) the need to hold individual and collective grief, rage and fears

4) what "hopeful" pathways can help us confront the polycrisis.

As a climate scientist, Kritee will speak about the depth of ecological trauma that is deepening due to catastrophic fires, hurricanes and droughts and our economic-political environment. We will acknowledge other aspects of the polycrisis (e.g., loneliness, oligarchy, and runaway capitalism) that extend beyond ecological issues. Together, we will speak about the deep need to create spaces where grief, rage and fears associated with the climate crisis can be held with ancestral wisdom. Last but not least, we will discuss how we can move forward amidst an impending sense of "doom." Kritee will define her framework of “Re-indigenizing " and why it inspires her. She will present her thesis on how we could create interconnected islands of love, belonging, and re-indigenizing in a sea of chaos, trauma, and polycrisis.

Tiered Program Pricing:

Your generosity will help offer support to the speaker who left their mainstream job to do this work. Pricing tiers are as follows:

$108 (for those with inherited wealth and financial security)
$75 (for those that are able to pay for “vacations" and other wants and generally able to secure necessities for your household)
$45 (for those who are struggling to build significant savings and are without inherited wealth)
$25 (for those living paycheck-to-paycheck, or in significant debt without inherited wealth or home ownership)
$10 (for those living paycheck-to-paycheck in developing nations/economies)
$1 (for those living with virtually no financial resources

Access to this event is for everyone. If you need further financial support to join us, or you have any further questions,

please contact us here.

Kritee (Kanko), Ph.D., is a Zen Buddhist priest, climate scientist, meditation teacher, grief ceremony leader, and Love-justice activist. She is the founding guiding teacher of Boundless in Motion and a cofounder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. For 12 years, before fully committing herself to these two nonprofit organizations, she served as a Director and Senior Scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at Environmental Defense Fund. Her articles, interviews and peer-reviewed manuscripts have appeared in many mainstream, academic, contemplative and international outlets including the New York Times, BBC, Harvard Health, Yale Climate Connections, California Public Radio, Tricycle, Lion’s Roar etc.

Kritee believes that our collective survival, healing and belonging in these times of polycrisis depends on our ability to belong and re-indigenize. Reindigenizing depends on our ability to heal our traumas through meditation, animistic ecodharma that embraces animism, and on using science and strategies rooted in Nonviolence. She has brought her unique and loving approach to retreats and workshops organized by many organizations including One Earth Sangha, Al Gore’s Climate Reality, 350.org, Stanford University, World Council of Churches, San Francisco Zen Center, Mind & Life Institute and Lama Foundation. Please visit her website for more details.

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