Introduction to Zen Peacemaking with Eve Marko

Our approach to Peacemaking is unique. As we practice the Three Tenets of Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Taking Action, we commit to not taking fixed positions, to embracing wholeness and unity, to setting a place at the table for everyone. In a world of conflict, suffering, and violence, how do we make peace in […]

One Million Rising: Session 3

One Million Rising—a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. Session 3: You'll be onboarded to basic campaign design and learn how to implement it locally as well as get plugged into our next national campaign […]

From Trauma to Hope in the Holy Land

From Trauma to Hope in the Holy Land Join this presentation with Elias Deis, Executive Director of Holy Land Trust. Holy Land Trust is a non-profit Palestinian organization committed to fostering peace, justice, and understanding in the Holy Land. They are deeply dedicated to exploring the root causes of violence and developing solutions to address […]

Actualizing Unfaltering Engaged Practice In Our Time – HOPE with Rebecca Solnit

Join us in the continued commitment to social and environmental engagement and justice in this very complex time, to exploring the roots of structural violence in our social systems, and to engaging in the world in a courageous way based on contemplative practice and views that actualize non-separateness, interbeing, equity, compassion, justice, integrity, courage, dignity, […]

Labor Day 2025: Workers Over Billionaires

Labor and community are planning more than a barbecue on Labor Day this year because we have to stop the billionaire takeover.** Billionaires are converting the government into their private slush fund and just passed the largest wealth giveaway in the history of the US. The money they take from working families, they put in […]

The Three Tenets: The Intimacy of Taking Action

Please join us for a panel discussion with Genjo Marinello, Joshin Byrnes, Jitsujo Gauthier, Koho Mello, and Mikko Ijäs discussing Zen Peacemakers third Tenet: Taking Action. In this panel discussion, we will probe the emotional and spiritual aspects of taking action. Many of us struggle with the notion of taking action without naming or blaming […]

BCD Action Committee

This is a members-only meeting for Action Committee members