This July, Dr. Angel Acosta, Director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship, and three Garrison Institute Fellows have been invited to participate in the 4th International Conference on Mindfulness, hosted by the Danish Center for Mindfulness at Aarhus University.
On May 20, we continued the Garrison Institute Fellowship Forum with a conversation between Jerry Michalski and Dr. Angel Acosta, the Director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship. Michalski joined us to explore his framework Design from Trust — an innovative & contemplative-based design approach that begins with the assumption that most people are trustworthy. If you’ve ever thought about how Wikipedia works,…
On May 16, we continued the Garrison Institute Fellowship Forum with a conversation between Dr. Bayo Akomolafe and Dr. Angel Acosta, the Director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship. Dr. Akomolafe is a Western-trained psychologist from Nigeria, with roots in the West African Yoruba tradition, and a leader of The Emergence Network. Their dialogue on re-framing our notions of social or environmental…
On April 14, we invited Dr. Michael Eric Dyson to join us for the next installment of the Garrison Institute Fellowship Forum. Dr. Dyson spoke with Dr. Angel Acosta, Director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship, about critical social thought, prophetic witness, contemplative wisdom and Dr. Dyson’s latest book, Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America. We invite you to revisit…
On April 8, we shared an update on the resonance and impact of the Garrison Institute Fellowship in its first sixth months. This transformative program launched in 2020, and our inaugural cohort of Fellows will participate in a two-year fellowship journey under the direction of Dr. Angel Acosta, Director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship. Dr. Acosta was joined by some…
On March 11, we continued the Garrison Institute Fellowship Forum with a conversation between Arawana Hayashi and Dr. Angel Acosta, Director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship. They discussed Hayashi’s work on embodied presence and awareness practices for getting unstuck in the face of uncertainty. As the events of the past year have reminded us all, one of the only certainties…
On February 18, the Garrison Institute Fellowship Forum continued with Dr. Dan Siegel, best-selling author, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. Dr. Siegel and Dr. Angel Acosta, Director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship, dove deep into Dr. Siegel’s concepts of “MWe” and intraconnection as…
On January 27, we launched the Garrison Institute Fellowship Forum with a dialogue between Dr. Sará King, Garrison Institute Fellow, and Dr. Angel Acosta, Director of the Garrison Institute Fellowship, on the science of social justice. At the beginning of the New Year, we gathered in shared community to discuss Dr. King’s work and we invite you to revisit this…