This summer we're hosting a special workshop for professors focused on contemplation and environmental affairs. Please join us for a week in the mountains of New Mexico to explore the relationship between one's deepest experiences of the self and one's engagement with global environmental protection. The aim is to develop understandings and practices relevant for teaching, researching and acting in relation to environmental challenges.
Here is a brief description of the program. Please consider participating, sharing this information with others and checking out the website: http://bit.ly/szz3yv SUMMER INSTITUTE CONTEMPLATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: PEDAGOGY FOR SELF AND PLANET (a workshop/retreat for professors) July 1-7, 2012 Lama Foundation San Cristobal, New Mexico Cost: $850 Includes: All meals, workshop fee and workshop materials Environmental challenges call into question not simply our technological, economic, and political capabilities, but also our fundamental understandings of who we are as a species, and how we fit into the more-than-human world. This Summer Institute aims to develop tools for teaching, researching and engaging environmental dilemmas with this broader sensibility in mind. It focuses on the interface between environmental challenges and contemplative practices with the understanding that the latter can provide access to inner resources for understanding and responding meaningfully to environmental issues. Through discussions with distinguished scholars, focused conversations among colleagues, artistic exercises, and regular contemplative practices (meditation, yoga, journaling, nature walks, etc.), participants will collectively deepen higher education?s orientation to Environmental Studies. Part workshop and part retreat, the Institute seeks to widen our own capabilities as university and college teachers committed to education on a fragile and wild planet. The Institute will take place at the Lama Foundation in the mountains of northern New Mexico (http://lamafoundation.org). Lama is a beautiful, off-grid community committed to sustainable and mindful living. It sits on 100 acres surrounded by National Forest land and draws its power from the sun, water from a spring, and much of its food in the summer directly from the garden. At 8500 feet, Lama provides an ideal setting for reflection and engagement with contemplative environmental issues. Faculty *David Abram, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, and The Spell of the Sensuous; *Nicole Salimbene, visual artist whose work explores intimacy and sustainability; *Paul Wapner, professor of Global Environmental Politics at American University, and author of, Living Through the End of Nature, and Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics; *Jeff Warren, interspecies consciousness theorist and author of Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness. Further Information: http://bit.ly/szz3yv Paul Wapner at: pwap...@american.edu or Joe Brodnik at: j...@lamafoundation.org Professor Paul Wapner Global Environmental Politics Program School of International Service American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington DC 20016 (202) 885-1647
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