Cultivating the Resilient Responsive Heart in Response to Eco-Grief

A Webinar
with Jean Leonard

This recorded webinar includes a guided meditation and an exploration of how our practice supports the cultivation of a tender, resilient, responsive heart so that we don’t collapse in despair and can remain engaged as potential agents of transformation in the face of the ecological and environmental crises of our times. The webinar was held on July 9, 2023.

Bio:  Jean Leonard, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and meditation teacher in private practice in Colorado, USA and is a board member of the Rocky Mountain EcoDharma Retreat Center. She has practiced vipassana meditation since 2003 and teaches mindfulness classes and mentors mindfulness teachers in training through Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s MMTCP program. She has been mentored as an Insight Teacher by James Baraz, and her teaching style is influenced by James, Jack and Tara, Gil Fronsdal, and Thanissara & Kittisaro.   She is trained as a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain through the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and has a particular interest in offering emotional and spiritual support to individuals and communities impacted by the environmental and ecological crises of our times, and practice related to aging, illness and dying.