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How might ancestral wisdom and artistic imagination help us encounter artificial intelligence differently?In The Oracle ...
10/13/2026

How might ancestral wisdom and artistic imagination help us encounter artificial intelligence differently?

In The Oracle and the Machine, visual artist Delphine Diaw Diallo and educator, poet, and scholar Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz will explore the meeting place of art, cultural memory, consciousness, and emerging technology.

Delphine’s work moves across photography, collage, moving image, and artificial intelligence to examine image, consciousness, and cultural narrative. Yolanda’s work invites educators and leaders into deeper self-examination as a path toward compassion, justice, and more humanizing forms of learning and social change.

Together, they will invite us to reimagine AI through creative, reflective, and ancestral ways of knowing.

Join Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination online, October 17–18.

Learn more and register:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/artificial-intelligence-and-our-spiritual-imagination/

Today, on World Mental Health Day, we’re centering on the people who spend their days caring for others.The social worke...
10/10/2026

Today, on World Mental Health Day, we’re centering on the people who spend their days caring for others.

The social workers. The educators. The healthcare and nonprofit professionals. The community organizers and changemakers who keep showing up—for their clients, their colleagues, their communities, and the causes they believe in.

This work can be deeply meaningful. It can also ask a great deal of us.

When stress and exhaustion become part of the everyday, our own wellbeing can quietly move to the bottom of the list. But caring for ourselves isn’t separate from caring for our communities. It’s part of what makes that care sustainable.

That’s why we created Changemakers 2026, a six-week virtual resilience training for people working on the front lines of social change.

Changemakers offers space to pause, reconnect, and cultivate practical tools for meeting stress with greater awareness, balance, and connection—all within a supportive community of people who understand the demands of this work.

On World Mental Health Day, we’re holding close a simple truth:
The people who care for our communities need care, too.

Join us for Changemakers 2026 and make space for the person behind the work.

Learn more and register:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/changemakers-2026/

AI is changing what we can do. But how might it also be changing who we are?As artificial intelligence becomes increasin...
10/09/2026

AI is changing what we can do. But how might it also be changing who we are?

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly woven into the ways we work, learn, create, communicate, and make sense of the world, some of the most important questions may be the ones that cannot be answered by technology alone.

What happens to our understanding of intelligence, creativity, meaning, purpose, and even spirituality in a world shaped by AI?

Next weekend, the Garrison Institute invites scholars, technologists, contemplatives, artists, educators, spiritual leaders, and curious minds to explore these questions together at Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination, a two-day virtual conference.

📅 October 17–18
💻 Virtual

Join us as we look beyond what AI can do and ask what this moment is asking of us as human beings.

Learn more and register:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/artificial-intelligence-and-our-spiritual-imagination/

10/07/2026

How do we see the larger systems we are part of, and learn to change them together?

In Episode 29 of our podcast, Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, joins Garrison Institute co-founder Jonathan F.P. Rose to explore systems thinking, organizational learning, personal mastery, and the awareness needed to meet interconnected challenges.

Their conversation turns to the relationships that help people learn and act together. Drawing on Indigenous wisdom, Buddhist traditions, and contemporary science, Senge reflects on “generative social fields,” “ethical space,” and our connections to community and Earth.

Listen to The Garrison Institute Presents: The Common Good on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/podcast/peter-senge-organizational-learning-and-systems-thinking/

What becomes possible when our familiar definitions of intelligence begin to crack?Philosopher and writer Dr. Bayo Akomo...
10/06/2026

What becomes possible when our familiar definitions of intelligence begin to crack?

Philosopher and writer Dr. Bayo Akomolafe and Dr. Angel Acosta will explore the edges of technology, consciousness, and our spiritual imaginations in the opening session of the conference’s second day.

Bayo’s work engages complexity, posthumanism, decolonial thought, ecology, and new possibilities for social change. Angel’s work connects leadership, social justice, mindfulness, and healing. Their ongoing dialogue helped give rise to this gathering and its invitation to move beyond questions of efficiency and control.

This session creates room for uncertainty, mystery, and a more expansive inquiry into what it means to be alive during a period of profound technological change.

Learn more and register:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/artificial-intelligence-and-our-spiritual-imagination/

Law can help shape a more respectful relationship between human communities and the living world.Join us Wednesday, Octo...
10/01/2026

Law can help shape a more respectful relationship between human communities and the living world.

Join us Wednesday, October 7, from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m. ET for Earth Law and Rights of Nature, the fourth pre-conference webinar leading up to the Living Earth Community Conference.

Grant Wilson of the Earth Law Center, Raffaele Sindoni of the Yale School of the Environment, and Amaya Carrasco Torrontegui PhD of the University of Vermont Institute for Agroecology will explore how rivers, forests, mountains, and other living systems are being recognized through legal theories and practices rooted in Indigenous traditions, Earth Jurisprudence, science-law partnerships, and ecological justice movements.

Together, we’ll consider how law and governance can help protect the integrity of the biosphere and support the flourishing of both human and Earth communities.

Register and learn more: https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/speaker-series-on-the-living-earth-community-2026/

As technology becomes more capable, how might we deepen the forms of intelligence that emerge through relationship, crea...
09/29/2026

As technology becomes more capable, how might we deepen the forms of intelligence that emerge through relationship, creativity, and collective wisdom?

The Age of Supraintelligence is an interactive journey led by Vincent Hunt, Dr. Angel Acosta, and Peter Cobabe.

Vincent’s work centers healing, racial equity, and transformative leadership. Angel brings together mindfulness, leadership development, social justice, and restorative practice. Peter draws from artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, organizational theory, and systems thinking to explore technology’s role in our collective evolution.

Together, they will create an experiential space for exploring human connection in an increasingly AI-shaped world.

Join us online for Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination, October 17–18.

Learn more and register:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/artificial-intelligence-and-our-spiritual-imagination/

Contemplative wisdom and modern science meet at Garrison Institute for a special daylong gathering devoted to the experi...
09/28/2026

Contemplative wisdom and modern science meet at Garrison Institute for a special daylong gathering devoted to the experience of genuine happiness.

On November 14, Khandro Rinpoche, Richard Davidson, PhD, Daniel Goleman, PhD, and other leading scientists will explore what Buddhist traditions and scientific research reveal about happiness. Together, they will consider how happiness can be cultivated and experienced in our everyday lives, not simply understood as an abstract idea.

Join us for a thoughtful conversation connecting ancient wisdom, modern research, and practical insights into human flourishing.

Register and learn more: https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/the-experience-of-genuine-happiness/

Technology is never separate from the people, histories, and systems that shape it. What would it mean to place it in se...
09/25/2026

Technology is never separate from the people, histories, and systems that shape it. What would it mean to place it in service of collective healing and liberation?

Dr. Sará King is a neuroscientist, educator, and contemplative practitioner whose work connects neuroscience, meditation, social justice, and the healing arts. Samar Younes is an artist-theorist and ancestral futurist whose practice explores the physical, cultural, ecological, and computational environments that influence perception and becoming.

Together, they will invite us to look beyond technological innovation alone and consider the conditions, relationships, and inherited patterns that shape the futures we create.

Join this conversation during Artificial Intelligence and Our Spiritual Imagination, a virtual conference taking place October 17–18.

Learn more and register:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/artificial-intelligence-and-our-spiritual-imagination/

This November, Healing Our Way Home offers women of color a sacred space to gather in community and honor the fullness o...
09/24/2026

This November, Healing Our Way Home offers women of color a sacred space to gather in community and honor the fullness of who they are.

Guided by Dr. Marisela Gomez, Kaira Jewel Lingo, and Valerie Brown, participants will explore the wisdom of their ancestors, the power of joy, and the possibilities of liberation through Dharma teachings, meditation, mindful movement, reflection, singing, and community sharing.

Join us at Garrison Institute from November 20–22.
A limited number of partial scholarships are available.

This retreat welcomes the full diversity of women of color—including trans women, gender-expansive people, and anyone who self-identifies as a woman of color, regardless of gender role, expression, or physiology.

Register and learn more:
https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/event/healing-our-way-home-a-retreat-for-women-of-color-2026/

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