Readings, tools, and community resources curated by the Center for Mindfulness team. Browse, read, and share.
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- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call or text 988, 24/7
- Helping Children Cope with Emergencies (CDC)
Mindfulness is meant for everybody. In response to growing interest in mindfulness resources in other languages, we now have community websites for Japanese speakers.
日本語でのマインドフルネスとセルフ・コンパッションの情報は下記リンクをご覧ください。
- ハースのり子: mindfulheartcenter.com
- マインドフル・セルフ・コンパッション ジャパン: mscjapan.org
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, and it can affect mental health directly, through environmental trauma, or indirectly, through distress and anxiety about the future. Our team curated these resources to help with climate anxiety, build awareness, and inspire collective, healthy action.
Awareness of the Current State
- World Economic Forum: What is the Polycrisis? (7.5 min video)
- What is Climate Change? from the BBC podcast The Climate Question (15 min audio)
- The Albatross Liberation by Brian Martens (10 min read)
- What is Eco-Anxiety? adapted from Inner Green Deal (10 min read, PDF)
- Do You Have Eco-Anxiety? from the BBC (6 min video)
Honoring Our Pain for the World
- Surrendering to the Earth: A Guided Meditation by Lama Rod Owens, from The New Saints (6 min)
- A Meditation on Grief and Injustice by Rachel Ricketts (11 min)
The Role of Mindfulness, Empathy, and Compassion
- Healing the Body Politic from Coming to Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn (15 min read, PDF)
- What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis by Christine Wamsler (15 min read)
- How Brain Bias Prevents Climate Action by Matthew King for the BBC (10 min read)
- Look Beyond Borders — a four-minute experiment in “oneness” (5 min video)
Taking Collective Action to Heal Our World
- How to Cope After a Mega-Fire (Stanford Magazine, Jan 2025)
- How to Turn Climate Anxiety into Action — TED Talk with Renee Lertzman (10 min video)
- Carbon Handprint vs. Carbon Footprint with Daniel Goleman (2 min video)
- Climate Change: Can One Person Really Make a Difference? (5 min read)
- The Compassionate Instinct by Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley (10 min read, PDF)
- How to Transform Apocalypse Fatigue Into Action on a Global Scale — TED Talk with Per Espen Stoknes (15 min video)
- Three Pillars of EcoDharma by Kritee Kanko, climate scientist and Zen priest at Boundless in Motion (10 min read)
Poems
- When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver (PDF)
- The Word by Tony Hoagland (PDF)
- Ancient Language by Hannah Stephenson (PDF)
- The Albatross Liberation by Brian Martens (PDF)
- Rising Together for ReLOVEution by Thanissara (PDF)
- What is my own understanding of the state of our world?
- What feelings am I aware of around the state of our world?
- How well am I holding this knowledge and these feelings?
- How might my practice support me? Support our world?
- What is alive for me around the climate crisis, the polycrisis? How am I aware of this?
- In what ways do I practice to support myself around the polycrisis?
- What are ways I am coping with global hurt and grief that are less skillful? More healthful?
- What one small action can I take to feel a sense of agency?
- What do I feel calling and purpose around?
- What other like-minded individuals or community groups might I connect with?