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Contemplative Environmentalism: Summer Retreat
What is the relationship between our inner lives and teaching environmental studies?
How can mindfulness practices deepen awareness of our unique selves and allow us to bring that awareness to the classroom?
Can we integrate our philosophical and spiritual lives with our professional responsibilities as teachers and academics?
Please join us for a 5-day workshop focusing on “Contemplative Environmentalism.” The workshop will bring together environmental professors and activists to explore how we can strengthen and clarify our deepest values and translate ultimate concerns into our work as environmental educators and advocates. I’m pasting below and attaching the workshop flier. Please consider joining this unique opportunity.
Contemplative Environmentalism
WORKSHOP for EDUCATORS & ACTIVISTS
July 14-19, 2025
at the Lama Foundation near Taos, New Mexico, USA
Cost: $800
(includes tuition, meals, and accommodations but not travel expenses)
(Sunset at Lama Foundation)
Recent political developments threaten to intensify social injustice and environmental collapse around the world. This workshop brings together environmental professors and activists to explore how best to teach and advocate in these challenging times. It provides tools for finding emotional strength, perfecting pedagogical skills, and cultivating activist courage at this historical moment.
Much of the workshop will focus on the interface between our inner lives and planetary realities. We will use meditation, deep listening, writing, yoga, immersion in nature, and other contemplative practices to infuse our environmental work with greater self-awareness and compassionate commitment. In this sense, the workshop aims to help us reset priorities, become ethically more alive, and live with greater personal and professional purpose. (No prior experience in meditation or contemplative practices is necessary.)
The workshop will take place at the Lama Foundation, an off-grid, retreat center in the mountains of northern New Mexico, USA. Lama receives its electricity from the sun, water from a spring, and much of its food in the summer from its gardens. The place is stunningly beautiful. It provides an ideal setting for integrating our deepest spiritual yearnings with our professional and personal environmental commitments. Think of the workshop as a professional ‘conference’ focused directly on you and your deepest aspirations as a teacher, activist, and human being. Please join us!
Workshop facilitators: Leticia Merino (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) merino@sociales.unam.mx
Julie Tato (Taos Mountain Sangha)
Paul Wapner (American University) pwapner@american.edu
We ask interested participants to complete a brief application to explain why the workshop will be of benefit. To request an application and to receive more information about the workshop, please email Leticia or Paul.
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