Mountain Stream invites you to attend a course in EcoDharma explorations
Building community around climate change, inequality, social justice issues, and the dharma, while we explore together what it is to remember our own innate connection with life/the earth through the lens of the Buddha Dharma. Flyer
Teacher: Kirsten Rudestam
Title: Belonging to this Earth: EcoDharma Explorations for Planetary and Personal Wellness
Dates: Three consecutive Wednesdays: January 17, 24 and 31
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm (PT)
Cost: Sliding Scale $50 - $75. Limited partial scholarships available.
Registration required and includes all three days of the course series
To register, contact Robyn.hennon@mtstream.org
Location: Virtual only - Zoom meeting link to be provided once registered and paid in full.
Course description: As we face increasing uncertainty and social and environmental losses, we are asked to delve into the depths and breadths of our spiritual lives and face these times with compassion, integrity and clear seeing. How do we, as critical scholar Donna Haraway suggests, "stay with the trouble of living and dying in response-ability on a damaged earth"?
To become response-able is to become responsive, and responding entails opening to our lines of connection with self, kin and earth. In this class series we will explore our relationships to our planetary crises from a place of inner wisdom, spiritual resource and emotional resilience. Each class will include guided meditation, a short talk, and participatory exercises to help us gain clarity, confidence, and community in moving forward together.
Bio: Kirsten Rudestam has been practicing vipassana meditation in the Theravadan tradition since 2001 and teaching since 2005. She has a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she studied climate resilience and environmental justice. She has twenty years of experience offering field-based and classroom-based college courses in environmental studies and sociology, and is a facilitator for Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects. She, Gil Fronsdal, and Susie Harrington are the co-founders and core faculty for the Sati Center's Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy training program.