Awakened Action: What Blooms in the Ashes

 From Upaya Zen Center:

This weekend, we gather at Upaya Zen Center and online with a remarkable faculty for Awakened Action: What Blooms in the Ashes. Together, we will explore this time of tremendous endings, dissolution, and collapse through teachings, story, and practice. Some of the questions we will hold:

• What does it mean to live in a time of such profound change?
• What needs to end for the next to begin?
• What practices of awareness, compassion, resilience, and imagination can we bring to a time of turbulence?
• How do we recognize, support, and join the new possibilities rising from the burned-over ground of our time?

This unique program on Socially Engaged Buddhism will be led by Roshi Joan Halifax, Terry Tempest Williams, Valerie Brown, Rebecca Solnit, Molly J. Crockett, and Christiana Figueres. We are grateful to explore these urgent questions together and to learn from this thoughtful and inspiring group as we consider how to meet this moment with greater wisdom, courage, and compassion.

Online registration details:

After registering, you’ll receive an email with a link to the program’s Resource Page, where you can find readings, materials, and session recordings once they become available. We use Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent approximately 24–48 hours before the program begins and again about 30 minutes before each session.

Learn more/Register: https://www.upaya.org/program/awakened-action-online-2026/