in reflection and presence

Amherst College Center for Religious & Spiritual Life

The Center for Religious & Spiritual Life (RSL) helps students to live their faith, explore spiritual practices, and make meaning within themselves and the world.

CUHF EcoSattva 3 Council member, Harrison Blum, is the Director of Religious and Spiritual Life at Amherst College.

Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies offers residential and online courses combining study, discussion, and meditation for connecting sangha, supporting curiosity, and expanding and deepening personal practice.

CUHF EcoSattva 3 Council member, William Edelglass, is Director of Studies at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

The Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC) is an urban refuge and teaching center for all who seek inner peace through the liberating practice of Insight Meditation (vipassana). Adults of all cultural and spiritual backgrounds, races, nationalities, classes, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, and abilities are welcome. Offering trainings, workshops, programs, and practices dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where the contemplative life can be nurtured amid the complexities of daily life.

CUHF EcoSattva 2 Council member, Lynn Whittemore, is the Executive Director at CIMC.

Dorje Denma Lin

Dorje Denma Ling is part of a world-wide community of Shambhala and Buddhist practitioners and is Canada’s only Shambhala International residential program centre. Dorje Denma Ling hosts group retreats that strengthen our innate mindfulness and awareness capabilities, and foster a more awake, kind, and caring culture.

CUHF EcoSattva 2 Council member, Christine Heming, is a teacher at Dorje Denma Ling.

Findingly

Practices to refresh connectedness of all kinds—with other people; with the very sources of our own mental and perceptual abilities; with the visible and invisible ecology of Earth.

Michael Lipson is a member of the CUHF EcoSattva 3 Council.

Mangalam Research Center

The vision of the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages (MRC) is to create a body of knowledge that facilitates the translation and transmission of the Buddhist written tradition and classical languages into English.

CUHF EcoSattva 2 Council member, Karin Meyers, is the Academic Director at MRC.

Mind & Life Institute

Mind & Life Institute brings science and contemplative wisdom together to better understand the mind and create positive change in the world through grantmaking, convenings, and strategic partnerships.

CUHF Mind & Life 1 Council member, Susan Bauer-Wu, is President.

Natural Dharma Fellowship

Natural Dharma Fellowship (NDF) is an organization of Buddhist practitioners dedicated to bringing the practices of Tibetan Buddhism into the contemporary world in accessible, relevant, and creative ways. Wonderwell Mountain Refuge is NDF’s meditation retreat center. Nestled on a quiet country road in rural New Hampshire, it provides a sacred home for the practice and teaching of Tibetan Buddhism.

CUHF National Council member, Lama Willa Blythe Baker, is the founder of NDF;  CUHF Core Team member, Liz Monson, is Managing Teacher; and CUHF National Convener, Steady Council Anchor, and CUHF EcoSattva 1 Council member, Barbara Waldorf, is NDF’s Managing Director.

New England Council Collective

The New England Council Collective is a small but growing body of certified Council trainers and Council facilitators in the New England area. We serve individuals, groups and organizations seeking to learn more about Council and to seed Council practices in their lives and work in and for the human and more-than-human worlds.

CUHF Council Consultant Bonnie Mennell, CUHF Local Convener Paul LeVasseur, and CUHF Rando 2 Council member Kirstin Edelglass are part of the Council Collective.

One Heart Zen

One Heart Zen offers daily Zen Meditation gatherings, zazen, Dharma Talks, monthly One Day Sittings, Sesshin, multiple day Zazen intensives, weekly text study and discussion, and Dokusan (private discussion with a Zen Teacher). Everyone interested in meditation, whether brand new, experienced in other traditions, or an “old hand” is welcome to join in our practice as your life and schedule allow.

CUHF National Convener and Eco-Sattva 2 Council member, John Bailes, is the Founder and President.

The Wellesley Buddhist Community

The Wellesley Buddhist Community welcomes everyone to participate directly in mindfulness and meditation practice and experience the effects in their own lives—encouraging regular practice, openness, kindness and gentleness with ourselves and others to help develop resilience, buoyancy, and a culture of gratitude and loving kindness in the Wellesley Community.

CUHF National Convener and Eco-Sattva 2 Council member, John Bailes, is the Buddhist Chaplain at Wellesley College.

Yale Forum on Religion & Ecology

Based at Yale University’s School of the Environment, The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology is an international multireligious project contributing to a new academic field and an engaged moral force of religious environmentalism. With its conferences, publications, monthly newsletter, and website, it explores religious worldviews, texts, and ethics in order to contribute to environmental solutions along with science, policy, law, economics, and appropriate technology.

CUHF National Council member, Mary Evelyn Tucker, is the Co-Director of the Forum.