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10/21/2026

The work of caring for others can ask a great deal of us.

Changemakers 2026 is a six-week virtual program for healthcare providers, educators, social workers, advocates, organizers, caregivers, and other helping professionals who want practical support for sustaining themselves in demanding work.

Through contemplative practice, guided reflection, and a community of peers who understand the weight of service, participants will build tools for resilience, steadiness, and renewed capacity.

The program begins November 4 and features Sharon Salzberg, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Oneika Mays, Atman Smith, Ali Smith, Andres Gonzalez, and Reggie Hubbard, alongside Garrison Institute’s Contemplative-Based Resilience faculty Sarina Saturn, Isabel Saez, Chia-Ti Chiu, Jennifer Winther, and Carolina Lasso.

You are as worthy of care as the people you serve.

Learn more and register https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/changemakers-2026/

There's a lot of here at the Garrison Institute as we prepare for the 2026 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute.Tomor...
10/19/2026

There's a lot of here at the Garrison Institute as we prepare for the 2026 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute.

Tomorrow, researchers, contemplatives, cultural thinkers, and policymakers will gather for "Depolarization: Cultivating Connection in a Divided World"—a week of rigorous inquiry, contemplative practice, and exploration of one of the most urgent questions of our time: What holds us together in an age of fracture?

Over the coming days, participants will explore how connection is disrupted, what restores it, and how insights from science, contemplative wisdom, and lived experience can help shape more compassionate cultures, institutions, and futures.

For now, we're taking in the quiet before the conversations begin and looking forward to welcoming everyone tomorrow!

Some highlights from so far ✨This week, we're gathering at the Garrison Institute to explore "Depolarization: Cultivat...
10/19/2026

Some highlights from so far ✨

This week, we're gathering at the Garrison Institute to explore "Depolarization: Cultivating Connection in a Divided World," the 23rd Mind & Life Summer Research Institute.

Together, participants have been exploring how the environments we create shape belonging, what research can teach us about bridging divides, and how contemplative traditions cultivate wisdom, compassion, and connection in practice.

These conversations remind us that isn't only a personal experience—it is something that can be nurtured in our relationships, communities, and institutions.

And we're not even halfway through the week yet.

10/19/2026

What can beauty reveal about the nature of being?

In Episode 30 of The Garrison Institute Presents: The Common Good, spiritual teacher and author Rupert Spira joins host Steve Varley to explore nonduality and the search for lasting peace and happiness.

Reflecting on his journey from ceramic artist to spiritual teacher, Rupert considers how beauty can point beyond appearances and why his teaching increasingly speaks of being, love, and devotion. Their conversation also turns to the relationship between inner peace and responsibility to others, and whether artificial intelligence could ever experience consciousness.

Listen to The Garrison Institute Presents: The Common Good on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/podcast/rupert-spira-inner-peace-and-the-nature-of-being/

Make space for the song that’s been waiting for you.Join Dar Williams and a team of songwriters at The Garrison Institut...
10/19/2026

Make space for the song that’s been waiting for you.

Join Dar Williams and a team of songwriters at The Garrison Institute, November 1–5, 2026, for Writing A Song That Matters, an in-person retreat designed to support songwriters at every stage of the creative process.

Across five days, participants can shape the experience that best serves their work, with opportunities for songwriting workshops, vocal coaching, private consultation with Dar, collaborative writing, evening song circles, and plenty of time to write, reflect, and follow the muse. Novice and experienced songwriters are equally welcome, with a shared emphasis on craft, creativity, and generous feedback.

Come with an idea, a half-finished song, a stack of lyrics, or simply the desire to begin.

Learn more https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/writing-a-song-that-matters-2026/

Love in action is not passive. It is a practice.Healing Our Way Home brings women of color together for a weekend of min...
10/16/2026

Love in action is not passive. It is a practice.

Healing Our Way Home brings women of color together for a weekend of mindfulness, community, and deep reflection on what it means to heal collectively and live with compassion.

Rooted in the themes of Healing Our Way Home and Love is Liberation, this retreat will explore ancestors, joy, ethical practice, and the possibilities of liberation.

November 20–22, 2026 at the Garrison Institute.

Register and learn more:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/healing-our-way-home-a-retreat-for-women-of-color-2026/

As AI grows more capable, another question becomes increasingly important:What capacities do we want to deepen in oursel...
10/15/2026

As AI grows more capable, another question becomes increasingly important:
What capacities do we want to deepen in ourselves?

Discernment. Compassion. Imagination. Connection. Wisdom. The ability to sit with complexity and uncertainty.

This weekend, Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination brings together voices across technology, spirituality, art, education, leadership, and contemplative practice to explore not only where AI may be taking us, but how we want to meet the world that is emerging.

Join us this Saturday and Sunday, October 17–18, for two days of dialogue, contemplation, inquiry, and collective imagination.

💻 Virtual conference
📅 October 17–18

As technology continues to evolve, how might we deepen the distinctly human capacities that help us remain grounded, compassionate, and fully alive?

Learn more and register:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/artificial-intelligence-and-our-spiritual-imagination/

10/14/2026

The work of social change asks a great deal of the people who do it. How do you make space to resource yourself along the way?

Changemakers 2026 is a six-week virtual course for nonprofit agents of change and social impact leaders. Grounded in Garrison Institute’s Contemplative-Based Resilience framework, it explores the ABCs of resilience: Awareness, Balance, and Connection.

Each week brings guided practices, practical tools, and conversation with peers who understand the realities of this work. Faculty includes Sharon Salzberg, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Oneika Mays, Reggie Hubbard, and Holistic Life Foundation co-founders Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez, alongside Garrison’s CBR teaching faculty.

Join us November 4–December 16, 2026. Learn more and register: https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/changemakers-2026/

How might ancestral wisdom and artistic imagination help us encounter artificial intelligence differently?In The Oracle ...
10/13/2026

How might ancestral wisdom and artistic imagination help us encounter artificial intelligence differently?

In The Oracle and the Machine, visual artist Delphine Diaw Diallo and educator, poet, and scholar Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz will explore the meeting place of art, cultural memory, consciousness, and emerging technology.

Delphine’s work moves across photography, collage, moving image, and artificial intelligence to examine image, consciousness, and cultural narrative. Yolanda’s work invites educators and leaders into deeper self-examination as a path toward compassion, justice, and more humanizing forms of learning and social change.

Together, they will invite us to reimagine AI through creative, reflective, and ancestral ways of knowing.

Join Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination online, October 17–18.

Learn more and register:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/artificial-intelligence-and-our-spiritual-imagination/

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