Climate grief and resilience
12 White Tara Grief and Resilience Retreat (2024)
Zhiwa Woodbury 
White Tara Grief and Resilience Retreat 2024 with Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Jul 4, 2024 Part of a series of teachings given during the White Tara weeklong retreat held at Sravasti Abbey in 2024.
- Gaia theory
- Climate trauma
- Indigenous people’s relationship with Gaia
- Vast potential for drawing down CO2
- The Heifer Program
- Global opportunities
- Gaia – a source of optimism
- Faith in the Dharma, human potential and planet
- The planet has sentience – The Buddha
- Maintaining hope
Zhiwa Woodbury
Zhiwa is a long-time student of Ven. Thubten Chodron who has devoted his life to being an advocate for all things natural - including human nature! He has taken turns as an environmental attorney, a climate psychologist, and a writer/journalist. He is a life-long meditator who backpacked around the world in 1991 and met the Dharma on Cloud Mountain with Ven. Chodron in 1999, which he says was a turning point in his life and in his career. He fully embraced the Lamrim at that time, began studying with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, presented on climate grief at the Mind & Life Institute, and is currently a devoted student of Her Holiness Kunga Bhuma, the first female state oracle of Tibet. Zhiwa blogs under the pen name Tham Zhiwa @ The Dharma Beat on Substack, and his academic papers are freely available on Academia.edu.
