THE GARRISON INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2009

Contemplation • Action • Transformation Founded in 2003, the Garrison Institute is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization exploring the intersection of contemplation and engaged action in the world.

Our mission is to apply the transformative power of contemplation to today’s pressing social and environmental concerns, helping build a more compassionate, resilient future.

We envision and work to build a future in which contemplative ideas and approaches are increasingly mainstream, and are applied at scale to create the conditions for positive, systemic social and environmental change. ©Cutty McGill ©Cutty This is not only a matter of belief, but also of science. Recent research indicates contemplative practices can help modulate fear and cultivate insight, intuition, Why Contemplation empathy and morality — qualities which ground civil society and animate effective social change work.

Matters, and What It The Garrison Institute applies the power of contemplation to real-world prob- lems, helping build a more resilient, compassionate society. Many possible gateways lead to it; we have chosen to focus on three — how we teach our Achieves children, how we care for people affected by trauma and how we care for the environment. Our Program Initiatives develop practical ways to use contempla- tive methodologies in K-12 education, trauma care and ecology, working directly We live in complicated times. As the world rapidly globalizes, subprime mort- with teachers, caregivers, environmentalists, activists and others on the front gages from Detroit are sold in Dubai. As the global climate rapidly changes, lines of social engagement. Our retreat programs expose wide audiences to clear-cut forests in Borneo cause floods in Bangladesh. As global population contemplative ideas and practices conducive to social change. rises, so does the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest. The 21st cen- tury, with all its complexity and interdependence, presents us with both terrible Results of the Institute’s work in 2009 were remarkable. For example: vistas of suffering and terrific opportunities to build a positive future. Compre- hending the emerging world, facing its challenges and seizing its opportunities, • Our Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) teacher will require new ways of thinking. training program received a major US Department of Education grant (see page 6). Contemplation — broadly defined as the practice of deep reflection — nourishes • Our Initiative on Transformational Ecology launched the new Climate, Mind and stimulates new patterns of thought and behavior. A contemplative mind and Behavior project, and built and convened an active network of real recognizes interdependence and connectedness. It is open and present, with estate leaders working to cut building GHG emissions (see pages 8-9). an expansive view that crosses disciplines and breaks silos. Contemplation • Our leaders’ forum “Transforming Trauma: Integrating Contemplative offers pathways to positive states of mind and positive shifts in behavior that Practices, Neuroscience and Cross-Cultural Perspectives” convened top arise from them, infusing our actions with compassion, connecting them with mental health professionals, neuroscience and clinical researchers and our values. Given the right applications, contemplative insights and approaches contemplatives for a groundbreaking exchange on in trauma can be a fundamental part of the solution to today’s most pressing, real-world, care (see page 11). human-created problems, from the global trauma epidemic to global • Our Wellness Project expanded into new settings, including a new climate change. Wellness International project for humanitarian relief workers and human rights defenders (see page 13). • We welcomed our 18,000th individual participant to the Institute’s events and programs.

Our achievements in 2009 are significant indicators of the Institute’s growth “Today, in the first decade of the 21st century, science and and maturity, and are also part of the growing body of evidence that smart, contemplative-based approaches are an important dimension of effective social spirituality have the potential to be closer than ever and to change work. They have been made possible through gifts of time, energy, embark upon a collaborative endeavor that has far-reaching wisdom and support given to us by the thousands of members of the Institute’s potential to help humanity meet the challenges before us.” extended community — scientists and field professionals, researchers and activ- ists, teachers and retreatants, advisers and funders — each of them part of an innovative, growing coalition for social change. Because of them, the Institute’s —His Holiness the Dalai work flourished in 2009, and will continue to grow in scope and impact.

3 ©Cutty McGill ©Cutty Program Initiatives The Garrison Institute’s Program Initiatives apply contemplative wisdom in rigorous, evidence-based ways to key social and environmental change fields. We call them “transformational,” meaning that they have the potential to fundamentally change their professional fields by changing the states of mind within them and the behaviors arising from them on a large scale.

Our current Initiatives are Contemplation and Education, Transforming Trauma and Transformational Ecology. Staffed by highly qualified professionals and advised by distinguished leaders in each field, each Initiative is designed to:

• Explore key social and environmental issues in depth, map current practices in these fields and gain insights into what contemplative-based approaches can contribute; • Design and pilot practical methodologies based on these insights, rigorously evaluating results; • Seek new collaborations, partnerships and networking efforts among leaders and practitioners in relevant fields; • Use these networks to scale up successful pilot programs, and track their real- world impacts.

Thousands of field professionals participate in our Initiatives, and as the Binzen Nate - ©Garrison Institute David Sluyter, Adele Diamond and Richard Brown at the 2009 ICE Leadership Council meeting networks formed around them continue to expand, they are making important contributions to the evolution of their fields, changing lives and impacting society on a growing scale. Initiative On Contemplation and Education A summary of the 2009 activities of each Initiative follows. For further documentation, including the latest articles, reports, audio and video, visit our Founded in 2004, the Garrison Institute’s Initiative on Contemplation and website, www.garrisoninstitute.org Education (ICE) has played a central role in the emergence of the field of contemplative education for K-12 educators and classrooms. It works to foster the field’s growth and evolution, and to introduce evidence-based contemplative methods to educators. “The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.” A 2009 independent assessment commissioned from Wellspring Consulting determined that ICE has already made “significant” progress in advancing —William O’Brian, Former CEO, contemplative education as a professional field. The study found that educators The Hanover Insurance Company now recognize ICE programs “as filling an important gap in convening and organizing thought leaders.”

4 Field Development Here’s what respondents to the independent 2009 Wellspring In February 2009 the Institute held a forum on “Exploring Methodological assessment told us about ICE’s work developing the professional Issues in Contemplative Education Research: A Focus on Teachers,” part field of contemplative education: of an ongoing series of professional meetings for educators and researchers to help develop the field of contemplative education. Chaired by Penn State “Garrison brings together the players in the arena [of contemplative University’s Dr. Mark Greenberg and ICE Director Dr. Patricia (Tish) Jennings, education] better than anyone. It is a place where there can be it convened leading scientists and educators who study the effects of various meaningful dialogue. They can do this because they are interested in interventions on teachers’ well-being, attention skills, emotion regulation bringing together as many of the people in the field as possible, they and classroom climate. They discussed assessment methodologies and are open to all spiritual traditions, and the facility is tremendous.” worked to establish a compendium of assessments that can be used across different studies. “The wonderful thing about Garrison is that it provides a physical and conceptual space to carve out the trajectory of how to bring internal In November we convened the annual meeting of ICE’s recently expanded education into the mainstream. They had a fantastic conference last year. Leadership Council (see page 7) to review the Initiative’s progress, plan its It was a groundbreaking, landmark achievement combining scientists future and form a new Council for 2010. and educational practitioners.”

In February Dr. Jennings and Dr. Greenberg published a detailed survey of the “Garrison is really positioned to take the leadership in exploring…this research literature on the social and emotional dimensions of teaching and field. They are really getting the people they need to hear from in the learning, together with a proposed model for the “pro-social classroom,” in room together. It is an unusual opportunity to have this conversation the peer-reviewed journal, Review of Educational Research. In November collectively. This is a holding environment for people to think clearly.” Edutopia wrote up news of ICE’s CARE program in print and on its website. During the year Dr. Jennings made presentations at many influential professional gatherings such as the Society for Prevention Research (SPR), the American Education Research Association (AERA) and the University of CARE Pittsburgh’s School of Education. Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) is ICE’s professional development program for teachers. CARE training gives teachers tools to cope with stress, cultivate a balanced state of mind, encourage pro-social classroom behavior and support their pupils to overcome difficulties and flourish socially, emotionally and academically.

The CARE curriculum combines exercises for recognizing emotional patterns (one’s own and others’) with contemplative practices such as mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness and group awareness. It was developed by at the Garrison Institute by ICE Director Tish Jennings, Richard Brown of

“A program of ‘no prefrontal cortex left behind’ [would] aim to develop the essence of our human nature, our compassion and empathy for each other, and ourselves.”

©Garrison Institute - Nate Binzen Nate - ©Garrison Institute —Dan Siegel (see page 7) Participants in the 2009 education symposium

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University and Christa Turksma of Penn State University, with advice and Our second annual CARE summer contributions from Mark Greenberg of Penn State University and Garrison retreat for teachers was held at the Institute Senior Fellow David Rome. Garrison Institute in August 2009. Participants have enthused over The 2009 independent assessment surveyed teachers who have undergone the program: “One of the most CARE training and found they overwhelmingly reported improvements in exceptional trainings I have ever their own work in the classroom and their students’ behaviors as a result of attended–bringing contemplation the program: into the classroom is revolutionary.” “I am amazed how the exploration • 67% became better able to establish and maintain supportive relationships of caring has changed my with their students. relationship with students.” “It both • 68% became better able to manage classroom behaviors effectively and deepened my understanding of compassionately. ‘mindfulness’ education and gave • 50% said their students’ on-task and pro-social behavior improved. me tangible ways to use it in my • 62% report that CARE has had a higher or much higher impact on their work with children.” “It renewed work than other training they have received. my faith in teachers and teaching.”

• Most thought all teachers should receive CARE training. “Perfection! A rare combination of Jennings ©Garrison – Tish Institute warmth and wisdom. This program Applying CARE teacher training in the classroom In 2009 CARE received a major grant from the US Department of Education’s is the embodiment of presence, Institute for Educational Sciences (IES). IES awarded a total of $932,424 to Penn intelligence and practicability.” State University to complete the evaluation of the program in cooperation with the Garrison Institute, which received a subaward of $290,511. Dr. Jennings is the In 2009 ICE also collaborated with the Andrus Children’s Center to adapt principal investigator on the project. aspects of CARE for K-12 teachers working with at-risk traumatized children. Andrus serves students who have been diagnosed with one or more mental The grant funds further development and evaluation of CARE over a two-year illnesses and/or developmental disabilities; most have experienced significant period in rural and suburban elementary schools in central Pennsylvania, using loss and trauma. At Andrus’s request, we created a pilot project called Creating a much larger, multidistrict cohort and collecting data for the first time on Sanctuary Within. It uses mindfulness skills and other elements of CARE train- how CARE affects students in the classroom. The research is underway now, ing to support Andrus’s implementation of the existing Sanctuary model and and preliminary qualitative and quantitative data are exciting, already pointing expand its work in teaching emotion management skills to students, teachers to significant impacts. and staff. The pilot program was completed in 2009, and the experience gained can now be used in other settings, not only in alternative schools, but in all K-12 school settings where behavioral problems are present.

“Children learn what they live. CARE enables teachers to be the role We continue to receive inquiries about CARE from educators and researchers models we always wished we had growing up, and to become the kind across the US and around the world. Current information on CARE is posted on of teacher they always wanted to be. It helps them release their stress our website, www.garrisoninstitute.org/care and frustration and expand their sense of well-being. This markedly Contact the Contemplation and Education Initiative at changes the climate in the classroom, bringing more joy into class and [email protected] into teachers’ lives. It also turns out to be a very cost-effective way to make dramatic improvements in classroom learning.”

—Adele Diamond (see page 7)

6 ICE Lead Staff and sectarian teacher education. He has stance abuse and treatment among Arthur Zajonc, Ph.D., is Andrew Mel- taught in public elementary schools rural children, adolescents and adults. lon Professor of Physics and Interdis- Leadership Council and helped found several contempla- ciplinary Studies at Amherst College, Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, Ph.D., is tive schools. and directs the Academic Program of an Associate Professor in the Depart- the Center for Contemplative Mind. Lead Staff Adele Diamond, Ph.D., is Professor of ment of Educational and Counseling Psychiatry at the University of British Psychology and Special Education M.Ed,. Ph.D, Patricia (Tish) Jennings, Columbia and the Canada Research in the Faculty of Education at the is Director of the Garrison Institute’s Senior Advisory Board Chair in Developmental Cognitive University of British Columbia. Initiative on Contemplation and Neuroscience. She studies develop- Clancy Blair, Ph.D., is Professor of Education and a Research Associate Pamela Seigle, M.S., is Executive Di- ment of the prefrontal cortex and Applied Psychology at NYU and a with the Prevention Research Center rector of Courage & Renewal North- cognitive abilities that depend on it. developmental psychologist. He stud- east, based at Wellesley College, and at Penn State University. She directed ies family ecology and child develop- Tobin Hart, Ph.D., is Professor of founder and former Executive Direc- the Cultivating Emotional Balance ment under a grant from the National Psychology at the University of West tor of the Open Circle Program at the (CEB) Project and was principal Institute of Child Health and Human Georgia. He co-founded and chairs Wellesley Centers for Women. investigator at San Francisco State Development. the board of the ChildSpirit Institute. University on a study with Head Start David Sluyter, Ed.D., is the former Paul Ekman, Ph.D., originated the teachers of CEB training’s effects in Susan Kaiser-Greenland, J.D., is CEO and senior adviser and current Cultivating Emotional Balance proj- Applying CARE teacher training in the classroom the classroom. co-founder and Executive Director consultant to the Fetzer Institute, ect, and was Professor of Psychology of InnerKids. She develops mindful focusing on K-12 social emotional at the University of California at San awareness curricula and teaches learning and the role of relationships Francisco. He consults on research Leadership Council school- and community-based in health care and organizational life. and training related to emotion and programs. Mark Greenberg, Ph.D., Council Robin Stern, Ph.D., is an author, edu- deception. Chair, holds the Bennett Endowed Linda Lantieri is the Director of cator and licensed psychoanalyst on Chair in Prevention Research in Penn Peter Senge (bio on page 21) The Inner Resilience Program and a the faculties of Teachers College Co- State’s College of Health and Human founding board member of the Col- lumbia University, Hunter College and Dan Siegel, M.D., is a Harvard-ed- Development. He is Director of the laborative for Academic, Social and The School at Columbia University. ucated psychiatrist and Founding Prevention Research Center for the Emotional Learning (CASEL). Editor-in-Chief of the Norton Series Mark Wilding is the Executive Direc- Promotion of Human Development on Interpersonal Neurobiology. He Peggy McCardle, Ph.D., M.P.H., is tor of PassageWorks Institute and and Associate Director for the Penn directed the training program in child Chief, Child Development & Behavior the former Director of the Marpa State Consortium on Children, Youth psychiatry and the Infant and Pre- Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Business and Economics at and Families. school Service at UCLA. National Institute for Child Health and Naropa University, where he teaches Ph.D., is a Professor Trish Broderick, Human Development (NICHD) of the authentic leadership and systems B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., founder and at the College of Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. thinking. President of the Santa Barbara Insti- Director of the Stress Reduction tute for Consciousness Studies, co- Jerome Murphy, Ph.D., is the Harold Rona Wilensky, Ph.D., is a Resident Center at West Chester University developed the Cultivating Emotional Howe II Professor of Education at Fellow at the Spencer Foundation of Pennsylvania. She is a licensed Balance training. A Tibetan Buddhist Harvard University and former Dean in Chicago. She was former princi- psychologist, school psychologist, monk ordained by the , his of the Harvard Graduate School of pal and founder of New Vista High counselor and teacher. work integrates contemplative prac- Education. School in Boulder, Colorado and tices and Western science. Richard C. Brown is founder and an education policy analyst for the Elizabeth Robertson, Ph.D., is Chief Chair of Naropa University’s Contem- Colorado Governor’s office. plative Education Department, which of the Prevention Research Branch, adapts Buddhist teachings to non- National Institute on Drug Abuse. She studies prevention science and sub-

7 served as science advisor, chaired the steering committee and conducted a Initiative on Transformational Ecology baseline study of intersections within these fields. Dr. Rebecca Henderson of the Harvard Business School facilitated the committee. Economist Sander The Garrison Institute’s Initiative on Transformational Ecology (ITE) examines Tideman carried out the first mapping studies and wrote the first paper how our states of mind and patterns of thought affect our relationship with describing the project’s scope of work and key ideas. the earth and how, by examining and shifting them, we might transform our behavior and our environmental impacts on a large scale. In 2009 we began disseminating CMB information with links to articles, research and relevant projects via monthly email blasts to academics, ITE’s integrative approach applies new insights from current scientific research in government officials, NGO leaders and entrepreneurs following our work. many disciplines to ecological issues, using contemplative-based approaches to enrich our thinking about them. ITE works with leaders in diverse fields to create new learning networks, nurture innovative thinking and find scalable solutions “The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Garrison that can help shift mindsets, alter behavior and transform human-caused Institute’s Climate, Mind and Behavior Project found that personal ecological problems. actions could reduce US carbon emissions by 1 billion metric tons by ITE’s Climate Change Leadership program helps nonprofit, grassroots, govern- 2020…. Is it reasonable to expect people to sacrifice for the greater mental, business, academic and scientific leaders be more effective in the fight good, when classical economics teaches us that human beings will against climate change. The program identifies emerging areas of thought seek to maximize their own gain? … 'Simple models of human which are relevant to the climate movement, forms leadership councils to guide behavior where I pursue only my own interests are far too limited,' their exploration, organizes by-invitation retreats on the subject and recruits influ- ential leaders from diverse fields to participate in them. New ideas, new profes- says Rebecca Henderson, co-director of the Harvard Business sional networks and new collaborative projects emerge from the retreats, which School’s Business and Environmental Initiative. 'Humans are much the Institute works to nurture and expand long after the retreat is over. more cooperative and empathetic than that.'”

Climate, Mind and Behavior (CMB) —TIME Magazine reporting on CMB

In 2009 the Garrison Institute’s Climate Change Leadership program launched the multi-year Climate, Mind and Behavior (CMB) project to integrate recent We proposed the idea of a “behavioral wedge” to the Natural Resources Defense work in the behavioral and social sciences — including neuro-, behavioral Council and collaborated with NRDC on its development. In climate science par- and complexity economics, evolutionary theory and psychology — with new lance a “wedge” is a gigaton of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction; a “behavioral thinking about climate solutions, so they can take into account what scientists wedge” is a gigaton of GHG reduction that comes from simple, low- or no-cost are now learning about the drivers individual behavioral shifts adopted on a large scale, such as keeping tires inflated of human behavior. CMB brought or eating slightly more poultry and less red meat. NRDC did the quantitative together and activated an extraordi- research verifying the potential GHG reduction of such behaviors. CMB steering nary network of leaders collaborat- committee members provided peer review, and CMB’s inquiry into new behav- ing across these diverse fields, which ioral and social science research afforded insights into how to take them to scale. continues to grow and evolve. Shifting voluntary behavior is one important front among many others in the fight against climate change, one that will also benefit other large-scale regula- We assembled a distinguished steer- tory, policy, market and investment shifts we need. ing committee and advisory body comprised of prominent thinkers During 2009 the CMB steering committee, advisors and Institute staff planned in each field to guide the program and organized the first CMB symposium, to be held at the Institute in March 2010 ©Garrison Institute - Max Maksimik - ©Garrison Institute Paul Hawken is part of the distinguished group (see page 10). Dr. John Gowdy of and slated to become an annual event. Current information and news coverage steering CMB the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of CMB are posted www.garrisoninstitute.org/cmb

8 conducted individual and group contemplative exercises. They were then tasked with developing new strategies and personal climate action plans.

Many participants told us how valuable it was for them to take the time to step back and reflect on critical issues, particularly in a challenging time. Others noted the power of cross- pollination of ideas that took place between for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, and between younger and more experienced leaders. In the wake of the retreat, mentoring, networking, pilot projects and other collaborations among RELACC participants continue to evolve. The Institute is supporting them with an Binzen Nate - ©Garrison Institute Garrison Institute co-founder Jonathan Rose at the ©George Potanovic ©George ongoing framework and an online RELACC retreat The 2009 RELACC retreat communications hub.

Real Estate Leadership in the Age of Climate Change The RELACC project is now focused on applying the methods and findings of (RELACC) our Climate, Mind and Behavior program to the building sector, and has been renamed the Climate, Buildings and Behavior (CBB) project. CBB is assembling Buildings are responsible for 42% of US greenhouse gas emissions. ITE’s Real an expanded network of real estate and government leaders who are using Estate Leadership in the Age of Climate Change (RELACC) project focuses insights from behavioral and social sciences to reduce the climate impacts of on driving organizational change to reduce building emissions. In May 2009 buildings and occupants. Current information on CBB is posted on our website, the Garrison Institute held the first in a series of retreats for real estate leaders. www.garrisoninstitute.org/cbb It gathered 30 diverse and influential industry leaders who share an ambition to move their organizations away from business as usual and towards a new paradigm that would transform their climate impacts. At the retreat, they collaborated on ways to overcome endemic obstacles, drive organizational “[Real Estate Leadership in the Age of Climate Change] served to change and cut emissions, even amid economic uncertainty. bridge an intergenerational understanding of how our industry needs to evolve… It was a truly transformational retreat.” Participants include leaders of businesses, community-based real estate organizations and rising young leaders, among them: Ken Hubbard, Executive —Jason Twill, Senior Project Manager Vice President of the global real estate company Hines Corporation; Bob Fox, of Sustainability for Vulcan Inc. architect of the Bank of America Building, perhaps the nation’s greenest office building; Bart Harvey, former Chairman and CEO of the national affordable housing organization Enterprise Community Partnership and John McIlwain, Senior Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. Facilitated by Rebecca Henderson Contact the Initiative on Transformational Ecology at: of the Harvard Business School, the group heard knowledge presentations and [email protected]

9 organizations respond to major shifts Chair of the UN Development Group, the first skyscraper to seek LEED Climate, Mind in their environment. founder and President of the World Platinum certification. He led the and Behavior Resources Institute, Chairman of team that created the original Steering Committee Jack Jacometti is the former Vice- the US Council on Environmental “Green Guidelines” for the Battery President of Future Fuels & CO2 Quality and Senior Attorney and Park City Authority. at Shell International Petroleum co-founder of the Natural Resources Company. He helped develop gas- Defense Council. He will soon join the F. Barton Harvey III (bio on page 21) Aimée Christensen leads to-liquid fuels, advanced applications Vermont Law School faculty. Christensen Global Strategies, for synthetic fuels and long-term Rebecca Henderson (see CMB advising clients from Clinton Global energy scenarios for a sustainable Sander Tideman is the founder of Steering Committee on this page) Initiative to the United Nations future. He worked with cities, Sense Consulting, helping create Development Programme on governments, academics, NGOs and sustainable organizations and Ken Hubbard is Executive Vice addressing climate change and OEMs to meet energy needs and sustainable economic systems, President and CEO-East Region of ecosystem degradation. Previously, address climate change. and co-founder and Director of Hines, Inc., aggregating more than she developed climate change the Global Leaders Academy, an 37 million square feet of commercial strategy for Google.org, practiced Peter Lehner is the Executive international network organization. real estate valued at more than $15 law with Baker & McKenzie and the Director of the Natural Resources He has facilitated hundreds of billion. He was previously co-leader World Bank and developed the first Defense Council (NRDC) and events including the Leadership for of the firm’s East-West Division, bilateral and regional agreements teaches law at Columbia Law School. a Sustainable World Forum with His and co-leader of the Hines Banking on climate change for the US He previously served as Chief of the Holiness the Dalai Lama. Group. Department of Energy. Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney John K. McIlwain is the Senior Dr. John Gowdy, CMB Project Chair, General’s Office, and created and Real Estate Leadership Resident Fellow and holds the J. is the Rittenhouse Teaching Profes- led the environmental prosecution Ronald Terwilliger Chair for Housing sor of Humanities and Social Sci- unit of the New York City Law In the Age of at the Urban Land Institute. He ences in the Economics Department Department. Climate Change was Senior Managing Director of at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the American Communities Fund and President of the International Billy Parish is the founder of Energy Steering Committee for Fannie Mae, President and CEO Society for Ecological Economics. Action Coalition, which has brought of the Fannie Mae Foundation and He has written extensively on envi- together 50 diverse organizations, Jim Chaffin is the co-founder with Executive Assistant to the Assistant ronmental economics, energy and raised nearly $10 million, committed James W. Light and President of Secretary for Housing/Federal climate change. nearly 600 colleges to climate Chaffin/Light Associates. He is a past Housing Commissioner at the US neutrality, trained tens of thousands Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Department of Housing and Urban Paul Hawken (bio on page 21) of young people and built a base of the Urban Land Institute and recently Development. 340,000 young voters. co-chaired with Charleston Mayor Rebecca Henderson is the Joe Reilly a South Carolina statewide Jonathan F.P. Rose (bio on page 20) Senator John Heinz Professor of Jonathan F.P. Rose (bio on page 20) collaborative smart growth initiative. Environmental Management at Joel Russell (bio on page 22) the Harvard Business School and Gus Speth, Distinguished Senior Bob Fox is a founding partner of Fox a Research Fellow at the National Fellow at Demos, was the former & Fowle Architects and of Cook+Fox Bureau of Economic Research. Her Dean of the Yale University School Architects. An advisor to Mayor research focuses on the economics of Forestry and Environmental Michael Bloomberg’s Office of Long- of research and development, Studies, Administrator of the United Term Planning and Sustainability, he technology strategy and how large Nations Development Programme, designed the Bank of America Tower,

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In June 2009 ITT convened the groundbreaking forum “Transforming Trauma: Integrating Contemplative Practices, Neuroscience and Cross Cultural Perspectives.” It sparked unprecedented dialogue among more than 50 leading mental health professionals, neuroscientists, clinical researchers and contemplatives. Together, they explored the methods, benefits and challenges of integrating a wide range of contemplative practices into trauma treatment and research. The forum was co-chaired by Dr. John Briere of the University of Southern California and ITT Senior Fellow Dr. Deborah Rozelle. Garrison Institute Senior Fellow David I. Rome facilitated group sessions.

The participants included some of the leading exponents of cognitive/ behavioral psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Focusing, the Garrison Institute’s own Wellness Project, group models such as Sanctuary and other community- based interventions, as well as emerging web-based trauma support networks. ©Garrison Institute - Nate Binzen Nate - ©Garrison Institute They also included expert practitioners in yoga, Christian Centering Prayer, The June 2009 Transforming Trauma forum Kabbalah, , Native American shamanism and other traditions now being used in trauma treatment. The Initiative on Transforming Trauma

Trauma directly affects large and growing segments of the US and global population, as well as the human services workers who care for them. “The Garrison Institute Transforming Trauma Forum] created Contemplative practices show promise for enhancing healing, recovery and an unlikely and perhaps unprecedented conversation among well-being for trauma caregivers and clients alike. prominent neuroscientists, meditation teachers and leading trauma therpists…. It was fascinating to learn of all the studies The Initiative on Transforming Trauma (ITT) works to advance the emerging being done and the innovative applications of meditation to field of contemplative-based trauma care by identifying, networking and convening researchers, clinical practitioners, contemplative experts, trauma work. There was a huge range of approaches represented policymakers and funders. It aims to increase visibility of new contemplative- from shamanism on one side to exposure therapy on the other…. based clinical and self-care interventions, highlighting scientific research that Many people expressed their gratitude for being part of such a can validate such approaches. unique gathering—how rare it was for such diverse groups even to be together, much less try to listen to each other…. An unusual Through its Wellness Project, ITT also develops and pilots its own contemplative-based self-care interventions for caregivers. Their empathetic conversation was started that will be continued.” connection to those they serve increases caregivers’ risk for developing —Dick Schwartz, Ph.D., founder of the secondary or vicarious trauma (VT) symptoms, closely related to their clients’ symptoms. ITT offers them trainings and other resources to help caregivers Internal Family Systems model prevent and ameliorate VT.

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Their rich, cross-disciplinary exchange opened up new vistas for contemplative- based trauma care, galvanizing the participants and continuing to reverberate Here’s what respondents to the independent 2009 Wellspring across their various fields today. Participants told us that it gave them both assessment told us about the Wellness Project: inspiration and a call to action, motivating them to integrate new approaches that work, including the wellspring of contemplative traditions. The forum “I find myself feeling better, stronger, happier, and taking better care of sparked new collaborations, for example a cooperative effort on methods for myself. As a result, I am better able to deal with family issues and clients measuring the trauma of racism, and raised new policy considerations. at work.” Forum participants and others in the growing Transforming Trauma network continue to collaborate and connect via an online hub the Institute has provided. “Being able to offer this informative, healthy program to my staff right on A second professional symposium is planned for 2011. site is an amazing gift to all of us. Having a large group of staff engaged in this process together increases the chances of all of us being able to keep In addition to convening professional meetings, ITT also helps develop the field the Wellness ideas and practice going in our lives.” of contemplative-based trauma care by conducting research. For example, an ongoing mapping study, led by Garrison Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Deborah “Working in this field hardened me and the tools introduced by Wellness Rozelle, documents the current state of the field, analyzing which (such as meditation, yoga, breathing, body alignment techniques, art contemplative-based practices are being used with which populations, and therapy) made me softer.… I am humbled to know there is a more effective, with what success. more mindful way of living.”

The Wellness Project

yoga with mindfulness meditation techniques, which recent research suggests In 2009 ITT successfully completed a five-year pilot of its Wellness Project, help relieve stress and enhance mood and well-being for trauma sufferers. A contemplative-based trainings for caregivers in domestic violence commitment to cultural and spiritual diversity is built into the training modules (DV) shelters. The Project conducted trainings for over 400 domestic violence and helps make them easily adaptable to diverse settings and cultures. workers in some 40 shelters throughout the New York metropolitan area.

Wellness trainings support caregivers’ well-being while imparting skills that An independent, qualitative program evaluation conducted in the spring of 2009 reduce stress, build resilience and enhance the effectiveness of their work with by Wellspring Consulting confirmed that the Wellness trainings had an “impres- clients. They combine education and body-based techniques such as restorative sive” impact on domestic violence workers and those they serve. It found:

• 85% of participants surveyed said they are better able to serve people impacted by trauma as a result of the training. • 76% said it improved the quality of care they provide. • 89% said they are less likely to burn out. • 88% said the impact of the Wellness Project on their ability to do their job has been higher or much higher than that of other trainings. • 98% said all DV workers should receive Wellness training.

In April we held a Wellness retreat for 25 domestic violence service providers from three shelters in the greater New York metropolitan area who had participated in previous Wellness programs. The retreat featured meditation and yoga, Alexander technique and deep dialogue about Wellness’s benefits and applicability, building community and a workplace culture of Wellness. It

©Garrison Institute - Nate Binzen Nate - ©Garrison Institute marked the culmination of Wellness training for these groups and the successful The Wellness Project faculty completion of the Wellness pilot.

12 Wellness embarked on a replication phase in 2009, expanding its focus to ITT Leadership Council tion Professor at the University of address vicarious trauma across diverse settings nationally and internationally. Nevada, Reno. Dr. Follette’s work is We offered one-day introductory Wellness workshops for domestic violence focused on survivors of interpersonal shelters, victims’ services agencies, violence prevention programs and other violence and the use of acceptance- Deborah Rozelle, Psy.D., Leadership care providers. We provided advice and technical assistance to agencies and based behavioral therapies. Council Chair and Garrison Institute providers such as family court services, children’s assistance services and rape Senior Fellow (bio on page 22) crisis centers, in order to help them create their own programs. A Wellness Paul Fulton, Ed.D., is a clinical psy- chologist and founding member of sourcebook was compiled to document the experience of the pilot program Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., is a mem- of the Institute for Meditation and and to guide new applications. We also launched a new international track ber of the National Advisory Council Psychotherapy. He is currently Direc- to develop tools and trainings for human services providers abroad, such as for Complementary and Alternative tor of Mental Health for Tufts Health human rights defenders and humanitarian relief agencies. Medicine (NACCAM). She is Assis- Plan, a large managed care organiza- tant Professor of Surgery and Psy- tion in Massachusetts. He is also a Wellness International chiatry at Dartmouth Medical School. forensic psychologist and teaches In 2009 Kirsti (Kiko) Lattu, M.P.H., John Briere, Ph.D., is Associate psychology and meditation. advised the Institute on the feasabil- Professor in the departments of ity of adapting and expanding Well- Psychiatry and Psychology at the Doralee Grindler-Katonah, Psy.D., ness to support international caregiv- Keck School of Medicine, University M.Div., is a Focusing-oriented psy- ers working in high-stress, dangerous of Southern California, Director of chotherapist, a health psychologist environments, such as humanitarian the Psychological Trauma Program working in the field of mind/body/ aid personnel, gender-based vio- at LAC+USC Medical Center and spirit medicine, a Soto practitio- lence workers, human rights activists Co-Director of the MCAVIC-USC ner and Associate Professor at the and others. Drawing on the success- Child and Adolescent Trauma Institute of Transpersonal Psychol- ful Wellness Project curriculum, Lattu Program, National Child Traumatic ogy in Palo Alto, California. She and Garrison Institute Senior Fellow Stress Network. He has written was the founding Director of the Deborah Rozelle collaborated with widely on trauma, child abuse and Focusing Institute.

©Garrison Institute - Nate Binzen Nate - ©Garrison Institute the International Foundation for the interpersonal violence. Kiko Lattu and DaRa Williams Protection of Human Rights Defend- Jim Hopper, Ph.D., is a researcher, ers (a.k.a. “Front Line”) to design a Mary Ann Dutton, Ph.D., is a clini- therapist, forensic consultant and In- workshop on managing stress and building resilience for human rights activists, cal psychologist specialized in the structor in Psychology at Massachu- many of whom experience intimidation, unlawful incarceration, violence and area of intimate partner violence and setts General Hospital and Harvard even attempted assassination as a result of their work. The workshop will be of- other forms of interpersonal vio- Medical School. A practitioner of fered for the first time at an international gathering of human rights defenders lence. She a researcher, consultant, Vipassana and , in Ireland in 2010. forensic expert and Professor in the he has also studied the effects of Department of Psychiatry of George- trauma on the mind and brain. Contact the Initiative on Transforming Trauma at: town University. She researches and [email protected] writes about interpersonal trauma, Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D., has low-income and minority women’s conducted research in neuroscience health and mental health issues. for over 30 years and has practiced yoga for over 35 years. He is Direc- Victoria Follette, Ph.D., is a clinical tor of Research for the Kundalini scientist with a special interest in the Research Institute, Research Director etiology and treatment of trauma- of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and related problems. She is a Founda- Health and an Assistant Professor of

13 Medicine at Harvard Medical School DaRa Williams, M.A., is a clinical at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. psychologist and former Program Director of the Garrison Institute’s Anthony King, Ph.D., is an Instruc- Wellness Project. She directed a tor at Jewel Heart Tibetan Buddhist school-based mental health ser- Learning Centers and has been vice funded by the New York State a student of Gelek Rimpoche for Department of Mental Health and the past 20 years. He is a research consulted at the Rockland Family faculty member in the Department Shelter. A practitioner of Vipassana of Psychiatry at the University of and Ascension meditation, she is on Michigan where he studies the the board of the Insight Meditation neuroscience of emotion, PTSD and Society. other trauma-related psychiatric disorders. Wellness International Adviser

Charles Raison, M.D., is an Assis- Kirsti (Kiko) Lattu, M.P.H., is Advisor Binzen Nate - ©Garrison Institute tant Professor in the Department of to the Wellness International Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, project. She has 20 years’ experience Helping bring contemplative-based change Emory University School of Medi- in humanitarian assistance, inter- cine, where he also serves as Clinical national public health and human to Washington Director of the Mind-Body program rights in more than 25 crisis-affected and Co-Director of the Collaborative countries. She was a humanitar- In October 2009 the Garrison Institute co-sponsored several Washington, DC for Contemplative Studies. Dr. Rai- ian advisor for the US Agency for events which featured His Holiness the Dalai Lama and which also presented son is also the mental health expert International Development’s (USAID) Garrison Institute staff and key collaborators, exploring the power of contem- for CNNHealth. His research focuses Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance plation and applied contemplative wisdom to transform individuals and create on stress and immune systems, and and was on the first Human Rights positive social and environmental change. includes compassion meditation as Watch field team after the genocide a strategy to reduce inflammatory in Rwanda. She has participated His Holiness was a featured speaker at “Educating World Citizens for the 21st responses to psychosocial stress. in rights-based strategic planning Century,” a meeting of the Mind and Life Institute. Among the other featured and policy formulation with orga- speakers and panelists were Mark Greenberg of Penn State University, Chair of Sharon Salzberg (bio on page 20) nizations such as Médecins Sans the Institute’s Initiative on Contemplation and Education Leadership Council, Frontières and a UNHCR-led global Linda Lantieri of the Inner Resilience Program at the Tides Foundation, also a Lynn C. Waelde, Ph.D., is a Profes- working group on refugee reproduc- member of the ICE Leadership Council, and Emotional Intelligence pioneer and sor at the Pacific Graduate School tive health. Garrison Institute Advisory Council member Daniel Goleman (bio on page 21). of Psychology, a Consulting Associ- ate Professor at Stanford University “The Convergence of Science and Spirituality,” hosted by Emory University, School of Medicine, founder and Di- featured remarks by Lodi Gyari , special envoy of His Holiness, and a rector of the Inner Resources Center presentation by Daniel Goleman. of the Kurt and Barbara Gronowski Psychology Clinic and the developer “The Heart of Change: Finding Wisdom in the Modern World,” hosted by the of the Inner Resources meditation Conservancy for and Culture, included a two-hour morning teach- program. She studies stress disor- ing by His Holiness, and an afternoon symposium at which Garrison Institute ders and therapeutic applications of Senior Fellow Deborah Rozelle of our Transforming Trauma Initiative was a meditation and mindfulness. featured speaker.

14 Retreats that Advance In 2009 the readers of Tricycle magazine voted the Garrison Institute a favorite retreat venue. But the Institute is more than just a tranquil place to retreat to; it is a place to advance from, a place for deepening engagement with the world and a powerful resource for personal growth and social change.

In 2009 we attracted over 4000 participants to more than 40 diverse Binzen Nate - ©Garrison Institute retreats. Some focused on contemplative practices such as meditation and His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Garrison Institute in 2009 reflection, exploring diverse wisdom traditions as well as contemporary ideas and practices. Others convened professionals in key social change fields to A Wealth of Wisdom and Diversity focus on transformational leadership. The Garrison Institute is privileged to welcome distinguished teachers from The Institute sponsors or co-sponsors certain retreats; others are booked around the world, representing a wide range of traditions and disciplines, to through our “Retreats at Garrison” program. We put our facilities and resources lead retreats and special events. Among those who taught here in 2009 were: at the disposal of visiting teachers from around the world, helping connect them to new students and wider communities of practice. All retreats held at Sensei Janet Abels Arawana Hayashi the Institute meet the following criteria: Adyashanti Rabbi Melissa Heller Fr. Carl Arico Kabir and Camille Helminski • They each belong to a recognized, well established spiritual or wisdom Ayang Rinpoche Jean Houston tradition or body of work. Sylvia Boorstein Fr. Thomas Keating • Contemplative practice is at the center of each. Anne Weiser Cornell Nada Lou • Each is led by qualified teachers whose credentials are recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Barry Magid their traditions. Richard Davidson Roshi Enkyo O’Hara • Each presents teachings which have the potential to apply to social as Peter Doobinin Susan Ji-on Postal well as personal transformation. Georges Dreyfus Matthieu Ricard John Dunne Gabrielle Roth Koshin Ellison Sharon Salzberg Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler Peter Senge David Frenette Jane Daion Shuman Gangaji Lama Surya Das Gelek Rinpoche Don Symanski Rachel Gluckstein Rabbi Lawrence Troster Ani Grosser Tsoknyi Rinpoche Joan Halifax Roshi Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

15 Contemplative Outreach In March and October Fr. Thomas Keating, Here are a few examples of the retreats we hosted in together with David Frenette, Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler and Fr. Carl Arico, led 2009. The full calendar of recent and upcoming retreats intensive retreats for over 300 people, exploring the contemporary Christian is posted on our website: www.garrisoninstitute.org contemplative practice of Centering Prayer, an approach Fr. Keating pioneered to reclaim and revive early Christian teachings and practices of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.

New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care Roshi Enkyo O’Hara and Toko Kyudojo In April Don Symanski returned to the Institute to lead over 30 members of the Center’s core teaching faculty led two retreats in January students in a three-day retreat in kyu¯do¯, traditional Japanese archery practiced and October for a total of 100 caregivers, looking deeply at how to integrate as moving meditation. Like other contemplative practices, kyu¯do¯ demands contemplative practice with caregiving. Participants ranged from professional being fully in the moment and meticulous attention to detail, so that kyu¯do¯ nurses, psychotherapists, social workers, chaplains and doctors to lay caregivers form and movements provide a subtle mirror of the self. who work with seriously or terminally ill hospital and hospice patients. Mingyur Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche Two of the new generation of Center In January and July Lama Surya Das, a leading figure in Tibetan Buddhist masters making Tibetan Buddhism accessible and relevant in conveying Tibetan Buddhism to the West, led retreats on the “natural great the West, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche are brothers. perfection,” the inherent freedom of being that is our true nature. The retreats Mingyur Rinpoche returned to the Institute in June and July to lead two retreats introduced a total of 140 students to Dzogchen meditation, Tibetan Energy for a total of 235 people, teaching core meditation practices and exploring Yoga, relaxation techniques, chanting and self-inquiry practices. the nature and essence of mind, compassion and freedom from attachment. In October Tsoknyi Rinpoche led a retreat on the states of transition Focusing Institute In February and August we hosted retreats of the Focusing through birth, dreams and death, and their opportunities for spiritual growth. Institute, whose work is based on the research of philosopher and psychologist Both return next year. Eugene Gendlin concerning “felt sense,” or contact with one’s own authentic inner experience, as the source of growth and change. Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Elena Frezza, Nada Lou, Greg Madison and Kevin McEvenue, these two Focusing retreats attracted over 150 participants.

On retreat at the Garrison Institute (from left): Surya Das, Toku Kyudojo, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Peter Senge

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16 Society for Organizational Learning (SOL) SOL is part of a collaborative national learning network called Schools and Communities Learn for a Sustainable Future. In July SOL held a retreat for the groups’ members facilitated by SOL founder and chairperson Peter Senge, systems educator Linda Booth Sweeney, Jaimie Cloud, founder/President of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education and Lees Stuntz, Director of the Creative Learning Exchange.

Emerging Jewish and Muslim Scholars In August the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives held a by-invitation retreat for 25 emerging Muslim and Jewish religious scholars. It offered interfaith dialogue and shared reflection between rabbinical and madrassa students who will go on to become religious leaders in their communities.

NYU Social Entrepreneurship Program In August New York University's Reynolds Social Entrepreneurship Program returned to the Institute to hold its summer retreat for some 50 current and incoming Graduate Fellows and Undergraduate Scholars of the Program, which trains and mentors social entrepreneurs. The retreat gave them a chance to synthesize what they have Hales ©Mick learned and reflect on the social change work they will do. The Garrison Institute is housed in a beautifully renovated 77,000 square foot facility on the estate of a former Capuchin monastery, whose grounds overlook the Hudson River and connect to adjacent trail systems. An hour north of Manhattan, it offers accommodations for 160 overnight guests and many amenities in an authentic contemplative setting. Tibetan Professionals In October His Holiness the Dalai Lama returned to the Institute to lead a three-day retreat for 200 young Tibetan professionals living and working in the US, Canada and Latin America. It was part of an ongoing series at the Institute designed to keep members of the Tibetan diaspora connected to their culture and religion. His Holiness stressed “[The Garrison Institute’s leaders] had motivation, they took the importance of using their educational in their teachers and their . Their hearts were wide open. attainment and professional achievements They had some resources themselves, but they didn’t do it all them- to benefit the worldwide Tibetan community. selves.They got people around them who also had similar ideas and ’s keynote address spoke of who were able to give at whatever level. They created this extraordi- “motivation and lineage,” praising the realism and idealism of young Tibetans determined to help nary place, as a physical place but also as an idea.”

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17 Institutional Growth Since 2003 the Garrison Institute has grown from a start-up to an established leader in the emerging field of contemplative-based social change. In 2009 many not-for-profits lost ground as funding shrank in the economic downturn. In spite of the economic challenge the Institute grew, investing in new programs and new IT capacity.

2009 INCOME Retreats $1,187,529 Foundation gifts and grants $1,757,392 Individual gifts $95,458 Government grants $49,743 Fees and other program related income $53,125 Total Income: $3,143,247

2009 EXPENSES Retreats $1,442,534 Contemplation and Education Initiative $413,831 Transforming Trauma Initiative $355,856 Transformational Ecology Initiative $266,439 Communications, Development, & Administration $664,587 (21% of total expenses)

Total Expenses: $3,143,247

Instead of a downturn, there was an upsurge in the Institute’s activities and • Our Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) teacher results during 2009. The scope of our programming, the level of recognition training program attracted a major grant from the US Department of we received and the impacts we created grew faster than ever. For example, Education (see page 6). in 2009: • We conducted and implemented a management assessment, updating • Our programs and retreats attracted over 4000 people, incrementally procedures and redefining responsibilities. more than in 2008. By the end of the year we had welcomed our 18,000th individual participant and logged a total of 91,000 room nights since we • We created and filled new, key positions managing our IT department and opened our doors in 2004. building our Wellness International project.

• Our income grew modestly over 2008 levels despite the economic downturn. • We completed and implemented a strategic plan for new IT capability, upgrading computer hardware and software, and shifting our most critical • A rigorous, independent assessment confirmed the Institute’s Program IT services in-house. Initiatives and projects achieved significant impacts on professional fields, especially our Initiative on Contemplation and Education and our Wellness • We designed and built a new website and a new database, both launching Project (see pages 4 and 12). in early 2010.

18 Good Governance

We owe the Institute’s continued growth and success largely to the good Board of Trustees governance and skillful leadership of our Board of Trustees. In May 2009 the Institute held a Board retreat to consider how we could build on our current The Garrison Institute is governed by a Board of Trustees momentum and maintain growth, even while charitable giving was down and composed of prominent leaders in contemplative, budgets were tightening. Facilitated by Jane Pierson of Cavanaugh, Hagan, Pierson & Mintz, Board members reviewed our budget and heard Wellspring religious, scholarly, scientific and advocacy fields. We are Consulting’s Chris Keevil present a specially commissioned assessment of profoundly grateful for their talent, commitment the achievements and cost-effectiveness of our Transforming Trauma and Contemplation and Education Initiatives. To keep our programs on track and and guidance. nurture their growth, the Board set targets for near-term budget cuts and fundraising, which were implemented. The Board also reaffirmed the Institute’s Rabbi Rachel B. Will Rogers is Presi- strategic investments in strengthening our IT capacity. Cowan is Director of dent and CEO of the the Institute for Jewish Trust for Public Land Growing Virtually Spirituality and the (TPL), a national former long-time Direc- nonprofit that has During 2009, we set ourselves the goal of building a first-rate virtual tor of the Jewish Life conserved 2.8 million organization to complement the physical one. Program for the New acres of land for people York-based Nathan Cummings Foun- to enjoy as parks, playgrounds, To that end, we conducted and implemented a strategic plan for information dation. Her books include Growing community gardens, farms, historic technology, completely overhauling the Institute’s technological infrastructure. Up Yanqui and Mixed Blessings (with places and wilderness. A nationally We made significant new investments in upgrading our hardware and installing Paul Cowan). recognized land preservation advo- cutting-edge software, and shifted our most important IT functions which cate, before joining TPL he managed were previously outsourced back in-house. We selected and implemented a Christopher J. (Kim) infill urban development projects for new Constituent Relations Management (CRM) database system, and a new Elliman is the CEO of a Chicago-based real estate de- web platform. We designed and built an entirely new website featuring online the Open Space Insti- velopment company and founded registration, multimedia content, streaming video, social networking and tute, a land conserva- and managed a commercial honey special online hubs for specific program-related communities. tion organization that production company in Bogotá, has protected and/ Columbia. Going online in early 2010, the new website will be an important communica- or financed close to tions tool to connect us more broadly to general audiences and deepen dia- 2 million acres and created over 50 Diana Calthorpe Rose logue within key professional fields and specialized communities. The vast new new parks or protected areas in the is President and co- capabilities the web portal will give us — from sophisticated online publishing to Eastern US. He has worked in news, founder of the Garri- webcasting and distance learning — are critical for our efforts to replicate and government and in the corporate and son Institute and of the disseminate our work on a national and global scale. They will help extend both nonprofit sectors. He is currently a di- Lostand Foundation, the cost-efficiency and the reach of the Institute’s programs. rector of Barrett Associates, Inc. and which supports social has served on the boards of numer- action, land conserva- ous nonprofits and foundations. tion and sustainable development. She also serves on the boards of several Buddhist organizations in the US. She has a background in art, design, artistic event and gallery management and is an accomplished dressage rider. 19 Jonathan F. P. Rose is Bennett M. Shapiro, of Tibetan Buddhist practitioners. In Chairman of the Gar- M.D., is a Partner at 1989 Rimpoche founded Jewel Heart, rison Institute, Chair of PureTech Ventures Spiritual a Tibetan Buddhist and Cultural the MTA Commission and a consultant in the Learning Center. On June 24, 1994 on Climate Change field of biotechnology. Rimpoche became a US citizen. and Co-Chair of the He is also a Director Advisers His books include Good Life, Good Urban Land Institute’s of the Mind and Life Death, The Box: Rituals for Pro- Committee on Land Use and Climate Institute, the Tricycle Foundation, The Garrison Institute is tection and Healing from the Female Change. He is also founder and Presi- the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Buddha and Odyssey to Freedom. dent of Jonathan Rose Companies initiative and a Trustee Emeritus of blessed with the guidance LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate Dickinson College. Previously he was of three cherished spiritual Rabbi Zalman development, planning, consulting Executive Vice President at Merck advisers. Schachter-Shalomi, and investment firm whose mission Research Laboratories and Profes- better known as ‘Reb is to repair the fabric of communi- sor and Chairman of the Department Zalman,’ is the father ties. A leading green urban solutions of Biochemistry at the University Father Thomas of the Jewish Renewal provider, the firm currently manages of Washington. He is the author of Keating is one of the and Spiritual Eldering over $1.5 billion of work, much of it in over 120 papers on the molecular architects of the movements, an active close collaboration with not-for-prof- regulation of cellular behavior and Centering Prayer teacher of Hasidism and Jewish Mys- its, towns and cities. He is active on the biochemical events that integrate movement and of Con- ticism and a participant in ecumeni- the boards and councils of numerous the cascade of cellular activations at templative Outreach, cal dialogs throughout the world, environmental, sustainable develop- fertilization. Ltd., now an interna- including an influential one with the ment and cultural organizations. tional ecumenical organization that Dalai Lama documented in the book Betsy Taylor is Presi- teaches Centering Prayer and the The Jew in the Lotus. One of the Sharon Salzberg is an dent of Breakthrough Christian contemplative tradition world’s foremost authorities on Ha- acclaimed meditation Strategies & Solutions, and provides a support system for sidism, his books include Wrapped in teacher and author. a consulting firm that those on the contemplative path. a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of She is a co-founder offers help to philan- His books include Open Mind, Open the Hasidic Masters and Jewish with of the Insight Medita- thropic, business and Heart; The Mystery of Christ; Invita- Feeling: A Guide to Meaningful Jew- tion Society in Barre, nonprofit clients to tion to Love; Intimacy with God; The ish Practice, written with Joel Segel. Massachusetts and address climate change and promote Human Condition; The Better Part; The Barre Center for Buddhist Stud- sustainability. She is co-founder and The Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit and ies. Her books include The Kindness Board President of the 1Sky cam- Manifesting God. Handbook, The Force of Kindness, paign and served as President of the Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Center for a New American Dream, Kyabje Gelek Rim- Experience and Lovingkindness: The an organization dedicated to helping poche is among the Revolutionary Art of Happiness. Americans live and consume wisely last generation of for a better world. Her books include educated in More Fun, Less Stuff, What Kids Re- ally Want that Money Can’t Buy and before the 1959 Com- Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the munist Chinese inva- 21st Century. sion of . Forced to flee to India in 1959, he later gave up monastic life to better serve the lay community

20 Intelligence, featured on the cover of Michael Lerner is President of Com- Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior TIME as one of “Ten Ideas Changing monweal, a health, environmental Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale Advisory Our World.” and educational center in Bolinas, University, with appointments at California, and of Smith Farm Center Yale’s Department of Religious Stud- F. Barton Harvey III is the former for Healing and the Arts in Wash- ies, School of Forestry and Environ- Council C EO and Chairman of Enterprise ington, DC. He is co-founder of the mental Studies and Divinity School. Community Partners, a leading Commonweal Cancer Help Program, With her husband John Grim she co- provider of development capital and the Collaborative on Health and founded and co-directed the Forum The Garrison Institute affordable housing expertise, whose the Environment, Health Care With- on Religion and Ecology conference benefits from the Green Communities initiative for out Harm and The New School at and is editing a series of companion advice and support of sustainable development in low- Commonweal. volumes. A member of the Interfaith income communities won numer- Partnership for the Environment at world-class leaders in key ous awards. He was appointed by Peter Senge is the founding chair- the United Nations Environment Pro- social change fields. Congress to the Millennium Housing person of the Society for Organiza- gramme (UNEP), she served on the Commission 2000-2002 and serves tional Learning and a Senior Lec- International Earth Charter Drafting on Fannie Mae’s board as well as a turer at the Massachusetts Institute Committee from 1997 to 2000 and Ruth Cummings Sorensen directs number of nonprofit boards. In 2008 of Technology. He has worked with is a member of the Earth Charter the Israel Festival Network, support- he won the Urban Land Institute’s leaders in business, education, International Council. She has written ing Israeli artists and sponsoring Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban health care and government and and edited many books on religion performances and outreach pro- Development and was named the lectured extensively throughout the and ecology, including several works grams through the Israel Festival, National Housing Commission’s Per- world, translating the abstract ideas by Thomas Berry. Jerusalem, Israel’s annual premier son of the Year. of systems theory into tools for performing arts event. She also better understanding of economic chairs the board of the Pardes Insti- Paul Hawken is the CEO of OneSun- and organizational change. He is tute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem Solar and co-founder of the so- the author of The Fifth Discipline: and serves on the boards of Nathan cially responsible Highwater Global The Art and Practice of the Learning Cummings Foundation, the Moresh- Fund, ecological businesses such Organization. et Avraham Synagogue, Jerusalem as Biomimicry Ventures Group, the and the Reut School for Pluralistic Pax Group and the Natural Capi- Pavan Sukhdev is a Managing Direc- Religious Education, Jerusalem. tal Institute. He has consulted for tor and head of the Global Markets governments and corporations on division of Deutsche Bank in Mum- Daniel Goleman was trained as economic development, industrial bai, India. A passionate environmen- a psychologist and worked as a ecology and environmental policy. talist active in India and around the science journalist at The New York He has also taught courses and world, he is the founder/Director of Times. He is Co-Director of the written extensively about the impact the “Green Accounting for Indian Consortium for Research on Emo- of commerce on living systems. His States” project, Chairman of the tional Intelligence in Organizations at books include The Next Economy, Conservation Action Trust, and the Rutgers University and a co-founder Growing a Business, The Ecology of head of a European Union global of the Collaborative for Academic, Commerce, Blessed Unrest, and, with study on the economic impact of

Social and Emotional Learning Amory Lovins, Natural Capitalism. biodiversity and ecosystems loss. Hales ©Mick (CASEL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His books include the worldwide bestseller Emotional Intelligence, and his latest, Ecological

21 Resettlement-Unaccompanied Minors Trauma Program and a Senior certified EMDR therapist and EMDRIA-approved consultant. She was a longtime faculty member of Fellows the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute and a past board member of the New England David I. Rome teaches Deep Society for the Study of Trauma and Listening workshops, combining Dissociation. the Focusing method founded by Eugene Gendlin with Buddhist Joel Russell spent 30 years as a mindfulness-awareness practices. planning consultant and land use Prior to joining the Institute he was attorney specializing in sustainable on the senior leadership team of development, land conservation, the Greyston Foundation, 1993 to community participation and 2005. In the 1980s he was an editor traditional neighborhood design. His and then President at Schocken innovative zoning codes and master Books. During the 1970s he was plans that implement sustainable the secretary to Chögyam Trungpa development principles have been ©Garrison Institute - Max Maksimik - ©Garrison Institute Rinpoche, his teacher. Rome also adopted by many communities taught meditation himself and and his work in land conservation was involved in the founding of has resulted in the permanent Staff Shambhala International, Naropa preservation of over 20,000 acres University and the Shambhala of land. Training meditation program. The Garrison Institute wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary contributions of the many people who work with us, past and present. We are especially Deborah Rozelle, Psy.D., is a grateful for the talent and dedication of our administrative, communications, licensed clinical psychologist and development, IT, operations, programming, research and teaching staff. art therapist specializing in trauma, attachment and adoption, with In addition to our professional staff, in 2009 we expanded and formalized special interests in applying sensory our internship and volunteer programs. We now offer year-round internships integration processes. A Tibetan in all three Program Initiatives and in our communications and development Buddhist practitioner and student of departments. Professional volunteers gave us roughly 400 hours in 2009, Gelek Rimpoche, she also integrates helping us with everything from retreat operations to online social networking. Buddhist psychology and practices in trauma treatment. She is a Senior The Institute’s staff, interns and volunteers are a critical part of the community Advisor to the Office of Refugee of professionals, leaders, teachers and visionaries that make the Garrison Institute a vibrant, effective network for social change.

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