In honor of May’s Mental Health Awareness Month, join us for a guided mindfulness meditation designed to ground your attention and restore clarity.
This unique webinar offers an opportunity to learn about the value of mindfulness from expert Ruth Wallen and a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect. Together, we will explore how cultivating awareness can strengthen resilience, support decision making, and help us lead with intention in the face of complex environmental challenges.
The meditation portion of the session will follow a traditional mindfulness practice. Ruth will then share insights from her ongoing project, Walking with Trees, an embodied practice of returning to the same landscapes over time to observe, listen, and bear witness to ecological change. Through this work, she engages deeply with forests and chaparral impacted by urbanization, invasive species, drought, and climate change, developing a practice rooted in presence, attention, and care.
Drawing from her experience, Ruth will reflect on how mindfulness supports her ability to stay present while engaging with environmental loss and transformation. This session offers practical tools to help you navigate demanding work with greater focus, steadiness, and purpose, while fostering a deeper connection to both inner awareness and the natural world.
About Our Speaker
Ruth Wallen is an artist and writer dedicated to encouraging dialogue around ecological and social justice. Her photomontages, interactive installations, nature walks, web sites, artist books, and performative lectures have been widely exhibited. Committed to student-centered learning, she served as chair and core faculty in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College for many years.
For over a decade she has been bearing witness with trees dying from urbanization, globalization, and climate change in all its guises, including drought, bark beetles and fire, synthesizing her insights from artistic and scientific training and Buddhist practice. She is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist community.
Registration
Registration is free for AWWEE members, who are also welcome to add up to two guests (new to AWWEE please).
Registration is $20 for non-members.