welcome to
MBSR & ECOAWARENESS
MBSR and Our One Earth
welcome to
MBSR & ECOAWARENESS
MBSR and Our One Earth
MBSR & Eco-Awareness Speaker Series
With thanks to the BESS Family Foundation for their support.
The MBSR & EcoAwareness Project offers an opportunity for MBSR/MBCT/MBI teachers and professionals to explore the place of Earth awareness in our teaching and work. These monthly gatherings focus on different aspects of EcoAwareness, including: what is Earth awareness? How can we bring these practices and inquiry into our classrooms and wider work? What are the myths and misunderstandings around nature connection in mindfulness practice?
Recordings are provided for anyone who cannot attend or wishes to revisit a gathering.
Upcoming Speakers
We send announcements about upcoming speakers via our email list. Registration is by donation, to support the important work of our speakers. Please contact us if payment is a barrier to participation; we will be happy to register you at any donation level, including $0.
Grounded Presence:
From Stress Reduction to Ecological Belonging - Reflections on an Earth-Aware MBSR Course
Kate Ensor
MA Mindfulness-Based Approaches (Bangor University),
BAMBA-registered mindfulness and compassion teacher,
nature-based coach and mindfulness-based supervisor
Thursday, 17 September 2026
12noon–1pm US EDT; 6–7pm CEST; 9-10am PDT
In this session Kate shares reflections from MBSR: Grounded Presence - the teaching project and thesis at the heart of her Masters in Mindfulness-Based Approaches at Bangor University, tracing what the arc from self-regulation to ecological belonging looked and felt like in practice. Drawing on participant responses, embodied teaching experience, and the research underpinning the approach, this is a peer reflection offered in the spirit of honest inquiry: what it felt like from the inside, and what insights may be relevant for our Earth-aware teaching community.
Wake Up!
The Role of Mindfulness in Urgent Times
Liane Stephan
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Inner Green Deal
Thursday,October 1, 2026
12noon–1pm US EDT; 6–7pm CEST; 9-10am PDT
In this talk, Liane Stephan will make the case that mindfulness is not just relevant to the sustainability crisis, it may be essential to it. This talk is an honest, embodied invitation to explore inner capacity building as the ground for outer systemic change.
Past Events
The Myths of Modern Mindfulness:
Implications for Teaching Eco-Awareness
Kristin Barker, Co-founder and Director, One Earth Sangha
from Wednesday, July 15, 2026
In this session, Kristin describes myths of modern mindfulness and how they relate to the historical narrowing of the scope of mindfulness to personal stressors (as opposed to collective, societal or global stressers). She speaks to how this narrowing interferes with the goals of Eco-Awareness, and how teachers can work skillfully with these aspects.
Transforming Climate Distress into Collective Action:
The Experience of the University of California Climate Resilience Course
with Gail Wright, MD
from Thursday June 25, 2026
Dr. Wright shares key takeaways from experiences with the Univ. of California Climate Resilience Course, highlighting what may be useful for MBSR/ MBI teachers to encourage belonging and resourcing within Nature and to help mitigate climate anxiety and eco-grief.
The 2nd Annual Earth Day Global Online Retreat
from Thursday, April 23, 2026
A 90-minute practice retreat with MBSR/MBI friends and colleagues on Earth Day 2026. In honoring Earth together for this second annual gathering, we hope you find nourishment, connection and inspiration toward caring for the Earth in so many ways. The retreat is guided by beloved teaching colleagues in Earth Awareness practice: Elisa Bennett, Gregory Crespo, Queen Mohale, and Trish Magyari.
The Essential Mindfulness Practice of Honoring Earth
Reciprocity as Our Ethical Ground
Karen Waconda
from Thursday, March 12, 2026
Karen speaks from her lifelong experience in the intersection of native streams of knowledge and mindful awareness. She invites us to contemplate reciprocity with all life on Earth as essential ground for practice and for teaching mindfulness.
Beyond the Four Walls
Titrating Ecological Grief in the MBSR Classroom
Patty Shutt, PsyD, CEDS
from Thursday, February 26, 2026
Dr. Patty Shutt will directly address the question put forth from MBSR teachers: Will eco-awareness traumatize my students? Learn ways to address professional hesitations; learn how eco-anxiety and eco-grief relate to trauma symptoms; and how Earth-informed MBSR might offer a framework for recovery.
EcoAwareness in the MBI Classroom
Margaret Fletcher and Trish Magyari
from January 29, 2026
Margaret and Trish are excited to introduce our 2026 Speaker Series; program and research updates from the MBSR & EcoAwareness Project; and practical encouragement to bring your care and compassion for the Earth into your MBI classroom and extended work.
Islands of Belonging in a Sea of Climate Chaos
with Kritee Kanko
Thursday May 1st
Now available by recording
This 2.5 hour interactive and contemplative talk is interwoven with sharing of
Kritee (Kanko), Ph.D., is a Zen Buddhist priest, climate scientist, meditation teacher, grief ceremony leader, and Love-justice activist. She believes that our collective survival, healing and belonging in these times of polycrisis depends on our ability to belong and re-indigenize. Please visit her website for more details.
Your generous donation for this recording helps support the important work of Dr. Kanko.
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