Join Us in Our Year-End Drive:
Weaving a World of Shared Belonging
As we embark on our Year-End Fundraising Drive, we look back at our journey together this year with a deep sense of gratitude. While the year has been challenging in so many in ways, we are more grateful than ever for the healing work we do together at Nalanda Institute, reconnecting ever more deeply with ourselves, with one another and with our living planet.
Our commitment to the work of deepening connection is reflected in the initiatives we’ve taken at the Institute this year to extend the healing fabric of our community further out to our troubled world.
You may also send a check payable to “Nalanda Institute” to 300 Central Park West, Suite 1D, New York, NY 10024.
Here are just a few of those many initiatives:
- Streamlining our Contemplative Psychotherapy Program to be more accessible and impactful
- Returning to intensive in-person retreats at Landgued Reid Center for Mindful Living (Bern, Switzerland) and Menla Mountain Retreat (Phoenicia, NY) to support our groundbreaking Embodied Wisdom program with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
- Offering our first in-person retreat at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies for our Mindful Insight and Kindness program with Sharon Salzberg
- Making our in-person retreats accessible online and open to our whole community and the larger public
- Completing research at the City University of New York (CUNY) using Compassion-Based-Resilience Training (CBRT) to prevent burnout in frontline healthcare workers
- Completing research at Rockefeller University using CBRT to counter racism-based stress
- Preparing to publish another article with our partners at Weill Cornell Medicine showing that CBRT improves the well-being of women breast cancer survivors
- Developing and validating the first Boundless Leadership diagnostic questionnaire
You may also send a check payable to “Nalanda Institute” to 300 Central Park West, Suite 1D, New York, NY 10024.
Inspiration and Generosity
Inspired by the prophetic vision of the Clockwork Tantra (Kalachakra), the work we do at the Institute restoring and deepening connection makes our embodied minds and community a living, breathing loom, where we can all practice repairing the torn fabric of our humanity and coming together to weave a world of shared belonging.
Of course, like any living thing, the human tapestry of our community needs the ongoing practice of continual weaving and reweaving, and requires us all—students, graduates, faculty, staff, board and partners—to work together to maintain and extend that tapestry to new individuals and communities near and far.
So please consider donating to our fundraising drive this year—the transformative work we do together is simply not possible without the generous support of bodhisattva community members like you!
Help us reach our goal of $100,000 — remember, no donation is too small.
You may also send a check payable to “Nalanda Institute” to 300 Central Park West, Suite 1D, New York, NY 10024.
Your generosity will go to support:
- Extending scholarship support to students in all our program offerings
- Continuing our donation-based Lunchtime Meditation series for all who seek communal support for practice
- Offering our free affinity groups for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, White Affinity, and Undoing Patriarchy
- Continuing our three-session short courses on special topics in Contemplative Living
- Developing partnerships with organizations like the Academy for Community Behavioral Health to support frontline non-profit workers in NYC and around the world
- Continuing research through CUNY on the benefits of CBRT for preventing burnout among psychology graduate students and frontline health workers
- Adding more free media and materials in our website’s Resource section for our community members and newcomers
- Adding a Research page to our website that shares many of the studies and books authored by our faculty
Thank You!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all you do to keep yourself, your family, our community and our whole planet weaving together in the spirit of universal compassion and shared belonging.
OM SVASTI! OM MANI PADME HUM HREE!
MAY ALL BEINGS GROW TOGETHER IN LASTING PEACE, JOY AND EQUANIMITY!
Nalanda Institute is a contemplative learning community of people devoted to transforming their lives, supporting others in changing themselves and working together to better care for the world we share. It was founded by Academic Director Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over forty years experience studying the beneficial effects of contemplative practices.
Our programs blend university-level rigorous content with the experiential practices needed for self and societal transformation. The educational experience is designed to be communal, impactful, and practical which means students begin to process and implement what they learn from their first day of instruction.
Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All monetary donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
You may also send a check payable to “Nalanda Institute” to 300 Central Park West, Suite 1D, New York, NY 10024.