with Mark Coleman, Kirsten Rudestam, and Yong Oh
This 5-month journey weaves mindfulness, compassion, and nature-based practice with the real challenges of our time—grief, burnout, and the overwhelm of intersecting crises. Through contemplative practice and community support, you’ll develop the inner steadiness needed for long-term engagement.
Rather than offering inner work merely as a way to self-soothe or endure business-as-usual activism, we explore contemplative and nature-oriented practice as a form of subversive orientation—one that restores a sense of enoughness, belonging, and wholeness, and thereby reshapes our relationship to progress, productivity, and control.
Here, we cultivate a spiritual infrastructure that can hold our ecological activism. We will explore how belonging to the Earth and to each other becomes the ground for sustained, creative action.
This is a path that honors pausing as much as doing, refraining as much as responding, and stillness as a necessary companion to movement. In a culture shaped by modernity’s insistence on constant action and acceleration, practices of presence, simplicity, trust, and mutuality are deeply subversive—opening space for new paradigms of engagement that may be post-activist, spiritually rooted, or not yet fully imaginable.

