Upcoming Events
Climate Crisis Workshops: Parenting, Work and Activism
A 3-part workshop series (available as one-off workshops or save on the bundle)
Wednesdays, May 6th, 13th, 20th, 2026
10am-11:30am Pacific (convert time zone)
Take any one workshop, or all three. The workshops will build upon each other and can be taken in a standalone format.
The climate crisis affects all areas of our lives, from home, work, politics, organizing, our environment and our emotions. In this series of 3 sessions, you’ll have an opportunity to work with specific topics that arise for you in the arenas of parenting, work and activism.
Each workshop will have a specific theme in which you’ll have a chance to “workshop” a particular personal or professional issue through the practices of parts work.
Session 1 - May 6th:
Parenting Parts: Kids and the Climate Crisis
Are you concerned about how to talk with children about the climate crisis, e.g., do you protect them or prepare them?
Do you experience worry, preemptive grief, or terror for their futures?
Do you struggle with whether to have children (or more children) because of the climate crisis?
In this workshop, you’ll have a chance to start with a “trailhead” – a particular situation that is most meaningful to you in parenting in the climate crisis and and discover possibilities for greater capacity in responding to our children’s needs.
Session 2 - May 13th:
Session 2: Parts at Work: When Values and Value (£) Collide
Are conflicted about speaking up/showing up in an unwelcoming work environment?
Are you struggling to choose work that is more aligned with your values, or experiencing tension with colleagues.
In this workshop, you’ll have a chance to start with a “trailhead” – a particular situation that is most meaningful to you in your work, in the midst of the climate crisis.
Session 3 - May 20th:
Parts and Activism: From Burnout to Balance
Are you experiencing systemic moral injury – bearing witness to unjust wars, genocide, injustice, and climate breakdown that are caused by the same systems we rely on to sustain ourselves and our families?
Has facing this collective suffering can lead to burnout, overwhelm, exhaustion, and discouragement?
In this session, we will not turn away from our world in crisis, and we will explore how we can welcome our parts without being flooded by them. We’ll practice together, working with a particular situation in our own lives and an associated part that feels difficult for us, with the emphasis on unblending and resourcing in Self.
Past Events
Awake Awareness - Wise Action: A Nondual Approach to Anti-Racism
Sunday, February 1st, 2026
9am-11am Pacific (convert time zone)
In this session, Itzel Hayward invites participants to explore how awake awareness can support a steady, honest engagement with racism and systemic harm. When we turn toward these realities with awareness, we begin to recognize our participation in them and our capacity to respond differently. This is the meeting point between contemplative practice and social change.
During our time together, we’ll practice in supportive community—turning toward discomfort, reflecting on our own participation in systems of harm, and exploring what non-cooperation can look like in real life. Through guided inquiry, dialogue, and contemplative practice, we’ll invite both clarity and compassionate action.
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Part of the Engaged Nonduality Series
Engaged Nonduality Event with John Prendergast & Lisa Ferguson
How do we respond to the historically-unique existential crises that we now face in a truly creative way, without succumbing to the burnout that political activists so frequently experience? John will explore how we may re-source ourself in the ultimate source – the heart and ground of being. As we consciously discover the Great Heart behind the human heart and the Groundless Ground beneath our self-constructed ground, we experience a sense of well-being independent of outer circumstances.
Truly Natural Compassionate Engagement featuring Rick Hanson
with John Prendergast and Lisa Ferguson
Sunday, January 4th, 2026
9am-11am Pacific (convert time zone)
With guest Rick Hanson, we’ll explore recognizing our true nature not just as awareness, but as compassionate humans who are deeply collaborative and cooperative. Founder of the Global Compassion Coalition, Rick will guide us in carrying our wounds with love and exploring collective action in response to suffering.
Founder of the Global Compassion Coalition, renowned author on contemplative practices and neuroscience, Rick brings a depth of spiritual understanding and wealth of insight about using the power of compassion to accelerate effective collective action while also maintaining our resilience. We’ll explore how we can come together and open to our creative, empowered response to our troubled world.
Part of the Engaged Nonduality Series
Small Group Coaching
6-week Program
This is open to those who have taken the Climate Compassion Training or other programs with us.
Join us for a transformative and vibrant group coaching program. Over six weeks, you’ll have multiple opportunities to receive a brief coaching session and learn from the sessions of others. Each week you’ll have a chance to deepen with others who are also facing planetary crises, while strengthening your awakened leadership and emotional wellbeing.
Climate Compassion Training
6-week Online Course
For those who are facing planetary crises, whether climate and ecological, war and violence, injustice and oppression, political instability and division . . . this training is designed to support your wellbeing, effectiveness, and inner knowing. This training offers transformative approaches and skills that you can incorporate into your life and work immediately.