Valid response to ecological destruction doesn’t look one way. Like healthy ecosystems, we can invest in diverse, wild, and creative forms.
Welcome to One Earth Sangha, an EcoDharma network supporting a global community in the Path of Engaged Practice.
As ten thousand years of climate stability is ending, the call to develop inner stability has never been more clear.
Upcoming EcoDharma Explorations
Join Us Live the Fourth Sunday of the Month
Upcoming
Embodied Changemaking for the World We Wish to See
- Join us live September 27, 2026
- Featuring
- Venerable Clear Grace Dayananda
Venerable Clear Grace Dayananda shares the practice of walking meditation as radical sacred action. They invite us to explore how this movement, whether standing or walking, acts as sacred repair and nurtures Beloved Community.
A New Certificate Training from One Earth Sangha
Offering Dharma at the Threshold
A groundbreaking training for modern Buddhist and mindfulness teachers who wish to bring the living Earth, climate realities, and the polycrises of colonial modernity into their teaching and communities with wisdom, courage, and care.
Updated for 2025/2026
The EcoSattva Training
Join us in a Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and Compassionate Action
“For anyone who’s yearning for a way to meet the often agonizing challenges of this time with a clear mind, a steady heart, a resilient body and a ferocious spirit, One Earth Sangha’s EcoSattva Training is a beautifully-designed and meticulously-crafted container.”
Featured EcoDharma
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Meeting the Reality of the Climate
- Mark Coleman
What do you do when you’re in love with a burning world? Here Mark Coleman offers seven R's for meeting the ecological crisis without going numb and without burning out. Can we move from falling in love with the Earth, to feeling what we're losing, to finding others who can stand with us in the fire.
EcoDharma Art, Poetry, and Imagery
Creative
Creative
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
There are those among us have already learned to hold devastation and tenderness in the same breath, who have fallen into the dark and found something worth bringing back. Have you found a way to move amidst the charred and submerged? Will you show us how?
The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.
Events from Our Networks
With Mark Coleman, Kristin Barker and Bonnie Duran
- January 20, 2027 — June 16, 2027
- Spirit Rock Meditation Center
- Hybrid
For environmental professionals carrying the weight of environmental destruction, we invite you on a six-month journey to meet the ecological crisis from a place of steadiness, balance, and resilience rather than depletion and burnout. This hybrid program weaves Buddhist wisdom, nature-based practices, and a community of peers to nourish and support you through these difficult times while strengthening the impact of your leadership. Application deadline September 13th.
A Contemplative Circle of Nature & Word
- August 27, 2026
- Buddhist Coalition for Democracy
- Online
This contemplative online circle explores the relationship between language, nature, and shared human experience. Facilitated by author, poet, and ecopsychologist Lorena Saavedra Smith, the group will engage poetry as a practice of mindful witnessing, listening to the ways Earth, body, and society inform one another. Sessions include a short meditation, a selected poem connected to a monthly theme, and sharing of original theme-inspired writings or reflections. No prior writing experience necessary.
with Rebecca Solnit
- August 30, 2026
- Upaya Zen Center
- Online
On Possibility, with Rebecca Solnit, who reminds us that “we make the future in the present with what we do or fail to do.”
Last Monday of the Month
- August 31, 2026
- Eco Dharma Network
- Online
Climate circle is a space to connect with our emotional responses to the climate and ecological crises, and related political and social crisis and to be alongside others and be resourced. hristine and Nick are members of XR Buddhists and offer on-going monthly climate circles. Christine is a Triaratna Earth Sangha local convener for the North Wales Buddhist group and is a retired psychotherapist and trainer of psychotherapists. Nick practises Tibetan Buddhism and has integrated Buddhism, meditation and activism for the last six years.
Sponsored by the BESS Family Foundation, Earth Awareness Community Retreats are intended to foster community among those whose work and interests are focused on the intersection of mindfulness/meditation and climate change. Retreats will be held in 2025 – 2027 at four geographically dispersed retreat centers. Attendance at the retreats is free, but other costs are participant responsibilities.
There is a way to be a human being
that causes all life to thrive.
— Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
Resources for Engagement
- To Act, or Not to Act, part of the The Shakespeare Climate Action Project from Napa Sierra Club Group
- Rainbow Prepping – a brighter way to get ready for collapse by Jem Bendell
- The Three Tenets from Zen Peacemakers
- The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature by William Cronon
- You could do this cool thing and others will probably join you by Jon Jon Wesolowski, The Happy Urbanist
- Week Without Driving: October 1-8, 2026
- Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting from Mariame Kaba
- “Being the Ground” Toolkit: practices to use before, during, and after taking action from The Embodiment Institute
- Call to Action for Elections – Resources from Buddhist Coalition for Democracy
