Join us on Wednesday, September 8 at 2:00pm Eastern Time in the U.S. for the start of Season 2 of the Inspiring Minds series of live conversations offering wisdom for our times. The first episode this season, "Sustaining Social Change Movements through Kinship and Contemplative Practice," features Episcopal priest Adam Bucko and award-winning environmental writer Fred Bahnson, with a musical performance by Høly River.
Out-of-control forest fires and a rise in homelessness are potent reminders of our disconnection from one another and the earth. Join us via Zoom to learn how contemplative traditions can help build resilience and strengthen social change movements. Topics to be explored include:
How Christian contemplative practice can reinforce our sense of interconnection, reciprocity, and kinship
What activists and researchers are learning about the role of contemplative practice in alleviating burnout and building effective movements for social change
The event will be moderated by Mind & Life Program Manager Shankari Goldstein and include time for audience questions and engagement. After the program, registrants will be emailed a link to the recording, which will also be accessible here and on our YouTube channel. (Note: registration is not required to view the recording.)
Adam Bucko Father Adam Bucko is one of the leading voices in the movement for the renewal of Christian Contemplative Spirituality. He co-authored Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation and The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living and co-founded the Reciprocity Foundation, where he spent 15 years working with homeless youth living on the streets of New York City. He currently serves as a director of The Center for Spiritual Imagination in New York.
Fred Bahnson Fred Bahnson is an award-winning writer and author of Soil & Sacrament (Simon & Schuster). “This book is profoundly, beautifully down to earth,” wrote Bill McKibben, “which is almost certainly where we all need to spend more time on a planet in crisis.” Bahnson’s essays and journalism have appeared in Harper’s, Oxford American, Orion, Notre Dame Magazine, Emergence, Image, The Sun, and Best American Spiritual Writing. He lives and writes from his home in southwest Montana.
Høly River Indie folk band Høly River is founded by multi-instrumentalists Laney Sullivan and Jameson Price. Fusing together the pulse of drone pop, worldly instrumentation, this experimental music would best be described as a landscape, as a biome all its own. Listeners are entranced in the soaring vocal ballads bathed in the moonlight of dance beats and folk-inspired roots. The music of Høly River carries the message of humanity’s need for reconnection with itself and the earth.
"[I was] inspired to be more brave with the conversations that I have and the work that I do... [and] to take more steps to bring my activism and research life together." – Season 1 audience member
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