Upcoming Events
Fresh Documentary Showing
Friday, November 6th // 5-7 p.m. // Mayo Auditorium.
Spend your Friday evening being mindful and socially aware about the state of our food system. Mary Langfield, a Diet & Lifestyle Consultant will be leading the group through a short meditation around food & lifestyle. Mindfulness can be taken with you everywhere you go. Being mindful of the fuel you are putting into your body is just as important and the thoughts you process. After the meditation she will show the documentary Fresh.
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and out planet. Fresh addresses an ethos that his been sweeping the nation and is a call to action America has been waiting for.
Movie runs 1 hr & 10 minutes. After the movie there will be a short discussion. Total time frame is two hours.
Us & Our Ecological Selves
Friday, November 13th // 5-8 p.m. // Mayo Auditorium.
Kaia Svien will lead us through a retreat/workshop on applying Buddhist principles and practices to being change agents in these times of environmental uncertainty.
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What happens to our emotions when we face the enormous implications of climate change or nuclear disaster? As we look both inside ourselves and around at others, our choice appears to lie between numbing out psychically and isolating from our love of life and other beings, or gathering to speak the truth of our anguish together and stepping more deeply into the web of life, sustained by the connections.
In this workshop participants will be introduced to the philosophy developed by Joanna Macy and friends to assist people in staying awake to their emotions. Through lecture, storytelling, dyad work, and guided meditation, we'll explore the notion of viewing emotions as potent and healing messengers, allies of the intellect that guide us to creative and life-affirming actions. We'll tap into our own deep knowing and the insights that arise when community forms around the choice to become more conscious of what we are truly feeling about the state of our world.
Any questions? Contact Mindfulness for Students
