Helping people reawaken a sense of connection with nature, community, and the inner landscapes to promote resilience and responsible environmental stewardship. 🌬️🌊☀️⛰️🌱 We at The Mind Body Ecology Institute are a diverse group of educators, artists, academic researchers, advocates, allies, community builders, as well as facilitators of mindfulness meditation, embodiment practices, mindful arts practice, dance, restorative circles, and ceremony. We see ourselves as students of life and nature, and as citizens of the world.
“There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us.” –– Thich Nhat Hanh, Paris 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Central to our practice is socially-engaged mindfulness. A core part of our mission is creating a culture of belonging and empowering individuals to assume mindful leadership roles locally, regionally, nationally, and globally to help others flourish even in challenging times. The nature-based programs we offer are crafted by our facilitators to provide nature-based opportunities for inner transformation and deepening awareness of interdependence, self, equity, sustainability, and flourishing. We are very concerned about the profound challenges of climate change, environmental degradation, and inequity, and what we offer is our contribution to helping us all effectively negotiate these challenges. As many among the ancient and Indigenous traditions know and emerging research supports, connecting more deeply with each other and nature is central to well-being and flourishing. Exploring one’s “inner” dimensions and embracing “inner transformation” are essential to understanding and facilitating personal and collective processes of change. Inner dimensions of the human lived experience which can be transformed in various ways (e.g., education, intentional practice, spirituality, mindfulness) include consciousness, values, beliefs, worldviews, and associated cognitive, emotional, and relational capacities. Our experiential programs weave intellectual engagement and community building with various nature-based mindfulness and embodiment practices to catalyze inner transformation.
