This course is required for all students enrolled in the Masters in Environmental Leadership program. By experiencing our minds without analysis, reinforcement, or rejection, the way is cleared to relate directly with others and with the phenomenal world. This is essential for the building of authentic community and the skills of a new kind of leadership. Being beyond bias allows us to problem solve directly and creatively without projection. Moreover, by opening our eyes and seeing without agenda, the natural world can become an ally.
Meditation is a way of bringing the non-duality of wilderness mind back home.
Mindfulness training will be presented in the form of sitting and walking meditation drawn from the Buddhist tradition. Methods for cultivating awareness within daily life situations will be explored including those practiced in different cultures such as the Shambhala tradition, High Plains Native America and others. There will be group practice sessions, lectures, discussions and individual meditation instruction. This course is required for all students enrolled in the Masters in Environmental Leadership program. This action project on the Boulder Creek Watershed is collaborative and designed and carried forward year to year by in-coming MA students.