Events. Launches. Project Updates
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UPCOMING: Crossroads Event, September 2024
Creation at the Crossroads is focused on providing training to pastors and church leaders working on creation care and climate change. We work with scientists, theologians, experts and trainers from a wide range of organizations. For more information or if you are interested in particiating, see our website!
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UPDATE: Sacred Wisdom Sacred Earth 2024
Filming for the Sacred Wisdom Sacred Earth documentary has finally wrapped up and we move into the post-production process! We are so grateful for the guidance, involvement, and participation of all the tribal elders, knowledge holders, and young emerging leaders who have worked on this project alongside us! Stay tuned for more updates!
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ON THE ROAD: Dr. Jonathan Patz with Khoryug Nepal
Dr. Jonathan Patz, renowned climate health expert and part of Loka’s faculty, traveled to Nepal and presented to Khoryug Nepal eco-monastic coordinators. He visited some of the climate projects that the monasteries and nunneries are carrying out and advised them on next steps.
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BE HERE NOW: What brings us joy this summer?
Besides all the flowers that are blooming, the local fruit on our tables, and paddling on the lakes of Madison, we are excitedly waiting for new books being dropped by some of our team’s favorite thinkers, writers and artists!
Multisolving by Elizabeth Sawin
Public Talks by Loka Director, Dekila Chungyalpa
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Future: Inner Transformation for Social Impact Leaders
July 14-August 17, 2024
The Garrison Institute is hosting a virtual 5-week personal development program to engage in inner transformation practices through different angles and methods for social impact leaders.
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Past: Spiritual Ecology At St. Ethelburga's, UK
June 29, 2024
Join us for a 1-day conference exploring the links between spirituality, ecology and peacemaking. Featuring René August, Dekila Chungyalpa, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and more.
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Past: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Turbulent Times
May 28, 2024 • 11:00am US Pacific Time
Dekila joined Lise van Susteren, psychiatrist and author of Emotional Inflammation, and headlined the Post-Carbon Institute’s 75-minute webinar to discuss positive ways to find equilibrium while experiencing the ongoing polycrisis.
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Past: Nurturing Emotional Resilience in the Era of Climate Change
May 8, 2024
Join Dekila and Christine Wilson, PhD, Research Scientist with the Centre for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for a talk on climate change and emotional resilience.
PAST LOKA EVENTS
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The Resilience In The Anthropocene (RITA) Summit was a three-day online event created by the Loka Initiative through a collaborative process to share experience, science, scholarship, and analysis on the most recent findings around eco-anxiety, climate distress, environmental grief, solastalgia, and other conditions; examine these findings through the lens of intersectionality and justice; and make available contemplative and other wellness expertise that can help increase resilience and well-being of people at the frontlines of environmental and climate impacts.
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Loka co-hosted an in-person event with Tergar Madison on the topic of Buddhist and Environmental Justice with Lama Rod Owens and Repa Justin Von Bujdoss as speakers and Dekila as the moderator. The event was held at the Center for Healthy Minds and was packed with interested audience members from all over the Great Lakes area. If you are interested, you can click on the image to watch the video recording.
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The 4-day Creation at the Crossroads events are held in September of each year. These closed-door events are designed to bring a cohort of 15-20 Evangelical pastors and church leaders to Madison to meet with and be in close dialogue with scientists, theologians, and experts on creation care and climate action. The 2024 event is the 3rd in-person gathering although there have been 5 total events.
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In 2021, Loka co-hosted the Sacred Wisdom Sacred Earth convening with the International Mayan League. With close to 1,000 registered participants, the 3-day online convening focused on 5 themes: Food, Water, Medicine, Sovereignty and Spirit and was entirely Indigenous-led, with the goal of sharing Indigenous ecological and spiritual knowledge as means of sustenance for all Indigenous peoples around the world. The eventual outcome of this convening was Loka’s commitment in 2022 to work with a core team of Native and Indigenous leaders and executive produce a documentary that focuses on Indigenous wisdom of the Great Lakes tribes in Wisconsin. If you are interested, you can click on the image to see the event website.
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The Loka Initiative launched in April 2019 by bringing together 20+ senior faith leaders from different religious traditions and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions, 20+ experts in the nexus of faith and ecology, and 20+ scientists, economists, academics, policy administrators, business leaders and representatives from the public sector from around the world to co-create Loka's priorities. The 3-day event was held at Holy Wisdom Monastery in Madison, WI.
