“The Missing Peace:
How Contemplative Teaching
is Changing American Education"

 
MIRABAI BUSH
Executive Director

Wednesday, April 16th at  7pm  *  179 Grace Dodge Hall
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam
*Free and Open to the Public*

Mirabai Bush is Director of the Center on Contemplative Mind in Society, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to encourage contemplative awareness in American life in order to create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society.  She formerly directed the Seva Foundation Guatemala Project, which supports sustainable agriculture and integrated community development. She co-developed Sustaining Compassion, Sustaining the Earth, a series of retreats and events for grassroots environmental activists on the interconnection of spirit and action.  She has written several books has co-authored Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service with Ram Dass.  Her spiritual studies include meditation study, bhakti yoga, Tibetan lamas. She also did intensive practice in Iyengar yoga and five years of Aikido. Her earlier religious study included Georgetown University graduate study in medieval literature.

This talk is a part of the Satya Graha Forum: In April 2008 the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center will perform Satyagraha, the opera by Philip Glass about Mahatma Gandhi and Satya Graha, his movement of social change through nonviolence. On the occasion of the opera, and in coordination with Philip Glass, The Satya Graha Forum will promote events throughout New York City that will discuss various approaches to Satya Graha and its relevance today. The Satya Graha Forum is a 501(c )(3) not-for-profit organization established under the laws of the State of New York.   For other Satyagraha events:  http://www.satyagrahanyc.org/events.php

Additional Co-Sponsors:  Global Education Associates; Pax Educare; FRSE; Temple of Understanding; Whole Women Healing