We will draw upon Buddhist and/or Nature practices developed by Ecodharma teachers across the world to slow down, bring awareness to our body and breath and go deeper into practices that help us develop trust in life or help us see ourselves as a part of the Universal whole.

Please bring a paper and pen, wear comfortable clothing to be ready for the guided practices. There will be time for sharing at the end. 

This iPause Guided practice expands on the practices  and principles discussed in Kritee Kanko's noon hour keynote session on Nov. 1st, titled "Islands of Belonging and Resilience in a Sea of Climate Chaos." Attendees are encouraged to register for one or both sessions. as well as for other sessions in the FREE Contemplation by Design Summit. ???

Kritee (dharma name Kanko), PhD, is a Climate Scientist, Zen Buddhist priest, Educator & Founding Spiritual teacher of Boundless in Motion, a non-profit and a trauma-informed meditation community based in Boulder (Colorado).  She is an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist lineage of Cold Mountain and a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. Professionally, she served as a Senior Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), one of the leading environmental nonprofits in the world that is focused on confronting the climate crisis, for about 12 years.  She has served as a  faculty for many organizations for courses at the intersection of climate crisis, racial justice, trauma healing and spirituality 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.  Her experience is that identifying and being with our personal and ecological grief in the presence of a loving community is necessary in these times. She finds herself committed to serve and learn from young adults, LGBTQ, black, indigenous and other people of color. Through her nonprofit and with her collaborators, she leads retreats and workshops that are at the interface of inner healing (through silent meditation and grief/rage sharing circles including those only for BIPOC groups) and outer strategic actions for climate and social justice.  Her articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Harvard Health, Yale Climate Connections, and California Public Radio.
 

CBD 2023: iPause Guided practice #13, Practices for developing trusting relationship with the human and more-than-human world with Kritee Kanko, PhD is part of the free Contemplation by Design Summit, Oct. 24- Nov. 2, 2023.

The full Summit schedule is posted at: http://contemplation.stanford.edu/summit. All events are FREE and online.

Registration opens September 12, 2023