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Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration

This was special community event featured guided meditations on our earthling identity, connection with the land, information and discussions on the urgency of climate change and how our community can engage with the challenge.

Our teaching team:

Wes "Scoop" Nisker (Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again!)
Paul Hawken (Blessed Unrest)
Joanna Macy (Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy)
Donald Rothberg (Engaged Spiritual Life)
James Baraz (Awakening Joy)
Mark Coleman (Awake in the Wild)
Malcolm Margolin (The Ohlone Way)
and Bob Doppelt (From Me to We).

Our performers:

Jennifer Berezan
Teja Bell
Eve Decker
and Nina Wise

2013-04-20 (1 day) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-04-20 Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration 4:05:21

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with Bob Doppelt, Donald Rothberg, James Baraz, Joanna Macy, Malcolm Margolin, Nina Wise, Paul Hawken

2013-04-20 (1 day) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-04-20 From Me to We 53:12
James Baraz, Bob Doppelt	Download Listen

2013-04-20 Connecting Inner and Outer Responses to Climate Change 37:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
At this time of climate disruption, we need powerful responses--integrating more "inner" spiritual practices and principles, on the one hand, with skill in "outer" responses, on the other. This integration or marriage can happen in many ways as we participate in the "great turning"--whether our primary emphasis, to use Joanna Macy's analysis, is stopping further damage from occurring, transforming our institutions, or helping to shift consciousness. Without this integration, however, spiritual practice runs the risk of becoming a kind of middle-class escapism and activism runs the risk of being caught in self-righteousness, attachment to views, demonization of the "enemy," and burnout. We need a new integration! We look at several dharma principles that can be the basis for such an integration, consider briefly how Spirit Rock is responding (and might respond further) to climate issues, and especially look at the figure of the bodhisattva.

2013-04-20 Active Hope 49:37
Joanna Macy	Download Listen

2013-04-20 Reflections on the Day 26:30
Nina Wise	Download Listen

In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-04-20 From Me to We 53:12
James Baraz, Bob Doppelt	Download Listen
In collection: Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration

2013-04-20 Connecting Inner and Outer Responses to Climate Change 37:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
At this time of climate disruption, we need powerful responses--integrating more "inner" spiritual practices and principles, on the one hand, with skill in "outer" responses, on the other. This integration or marriage can happen in many ways as we participate in the "great turning"--whether our primary emphasis, to use Joanna Macy's analysis, is stopping further damage from occurring, transforming our institutions, or helping to shift consciousness. Without this integration, however, spiritual practice runs the risk of becoming a kind of middle-class escapism and activism runs the risk of being caught in self-righteousness, attachment to views, demonization of the "enemy," and burnout. We need a new integration! We look at several dharma principles that can be the basis for such an integration, consider briefly how Spirit Rock is responding (and might respond further) to climate issues, and especially look at the figure of the bodhisattva.
In collection: Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration

2013-04-20 Active Hope 49:37
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
In collection: Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration

2013-04-20 Reflections on the Day 26:30
Nina Wise	Download Listen
In collection: Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration