The Urgent Need to Slow Down
Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard talk about environmental destruction and what it means to be alive during humanity’s greatest crisis.
Real Love
The common cultural conception of romantic love is full of heartache. There is a lot of wanting and needing and there can be a lot of inauthenticity in the way you try to present yourself in order to be desirable. Sharon Salzberg explains why it doesn’t have to be that way.
Letter From Our New CBR Project Director
As we welcome a new year, it is a great pleasure to introduce myself as the new Director of the CBR Project and update our supporters and alumni at an exciting moment in our history. As you know, the CBR Project was designed to help aid workers in the field and at headquarters build up skills and practical tools that…
Latest CBR Training a Huge Success
In November at the Garrison Institute in New York, the CBR Project held its first training under the leadership of newly-arrived Project Director, Emmett Fitzgerald and Program Associate, Hadley Griffin. Participants responded overwhelmingly with positive feedback, characterizing the training unlike anything they had previously attended. One commented in the feedback process, “I left with a profound sense of connection, calm,…
Meet Emmett Fitzgerald, New Director of the Garrison Institute’s Contemplative-Based Resilience Project
As recent research by The Guardian has shown, levels of anxiety, depression and PTSD are running at epidemic rates among aid workers who colloquially refer to crises of mental health as “burnout.” As the new Director of the CBR Project, Emmett will lead a new phase of growth, bringing to greater scale the existing successes of the CBR training program that…
Chris Marblo, the Garrison Institute’s New Executive Director
We’re delighted to announce that Chris Marblo is the Garrison Institute’s new Executive Director, effective November 2, 2015. He’s led diverse arts and educational organizations and spent over 30 years as a teacher and administrator with a longstanding interest in creative thinking and curricular innovation. Prior to joining the Institute, Chris was president of the Arts Center in Troy, New…
The Garrison Institute’s “Insight + Impact” Benefit
November 13, 2015 Garrison Institute’s “Insight + Impact” Benefit 583 Park Avenue, New York City 6:30pm – 10pm The mission of the evening will be to continue to make the Garrison Institute’s innovative transformational programs available to a broader global community; support its growing number of scholarships to programs and retreats and advance the mission of the Institute in the…
Laurie Anderson on New Work, HABEAS CORPUS: “I think meditators are the people who will understand this best”
In her new work, HABEAS CORPUS (October 2-4 in the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall), artist Laurie Anderson has partnered with former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed el Gharani to explore the story of his seven years of being interrogated and tortured at the prison camp. The work features an installation and performances, and fuses different elements of film, sculpture, music,…