Creating Peace in Ourselves, Making Peace in the World

Joanne shares the relationship between mindfulness practice and social change with the community of artists at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, in 2011. The complete title of her talk is: “Creating Peace in Ourselves, Making Peace in the World: When Turning Inward Isn't Turning Away.”

Talk given at the Rhode Island School of Design on September 25, 2011.

An Introduction to the Five Mindfulness Trainings

Joanne provides a brief introduction to the Five Mindfulness Trainings, the Buddhist precepts as shaped and made current by the Plum Village Tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh.

From a Dharma talk given on June 28, 2011.

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Looking Deeply in Order to Be of Help: Understanding the Sandy Hook Tragedy

In this Dharma talk Joanne asks us to look deeply together at the causes and conditions that can create such tragedy in our culture. She also gives us the tools to take good care of ourselves and our own pain in the face of such violence, so that we might be strong enough to help others. The Buddha, she offers, shows us the way.

Dharma talk originally given in 2012.