2021 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute: The Mind, the Human-Earth Connection and Climate Crisis
Sun, Jun 06
|Online Event
The Summer Research Institute is a competitive, application-based program, now in its eighteenth year. The program will be held Sunday, June 6 through Saturday, June 12, 2021. Applications will open the first week of January 2021 and close on Friday, February 26, 2021.
Time & Location
Jun 06, 2021, 7:00 PM – Jun 12, 2021, 11:00 PM
Online Event
About the Event
Learn more and apply to attend on the Mind & Life Website here.
Program Overview
Climate change and its consequences—from deadly forest fires to species loss to sea level rise—are reminders of the urgent need to repair the human-earth-ecosystem through holistic, ethically-responsible action. The SRI 2021 will explore how the union of contemplative wisdom and science can lead to greater awareness of the interconnectedness of all life, and the relationship between earth care and human health and cooperation.
The six-day program will begin with a focus on the historic and cultural roots of our current context. We will look at indigenous communities’ earth-care histories and contemporary courage. How have we lost the earth-honoring practices embedded in art, ritual, and storytelling, along with the power and wisdom of ancestor-insights? How can they still help us? We will examine histories of exploration, exploitation, and colonization and their contribution to today’s extinction crisis.