Join with other environmental educators in a mindfulness retreat at the Murie Center in the stunning Jackson Valley of Wyoming!

The week will include formal sitting and walking meditaion, group study, mindful movement and time in nature to soak up the amazing wilderness setting.

The Instructors: Claire M. Stanley, Ph.D. is co-founder of the Mindfulness for Educators program at Antioch University New England and founder and guiding teacher at Vermond Insight Medication Center in Brattleboro, VT.  she is passionate about the far-reaching possibilities of transforming the systems of any professional context into learning communities where human beings are awake, compassionate, and responsive to their inner lives and to the people and environment around them.

Susan Dreyer Leon, EdD is Associate Chair of the Education Department at Antioch University New England and directs both the Mindfulness for Educators and Educating for Sustainability M.Ed Concentrations.  She is passionate about the development of mindfulness as an enduring part of teacher education, reflective practice and renewal.

Heidi Watts, Ph.D. is professor emerita form AUNE, formerly co-chair of the Department of Education, and currently working with the Doctoral Program in Environmental Studies.  She also works with teachers in the international community of Auroville.  Recently she has been working to introduce Awareness Through the Body, a minfulness program developed in Auroville, to U.S. educators.

Accommodations: Just two miles west of Moose, Wyoming on the south fork of the Snake River sits a small enclave of buildings nestled in a meadow of sage and sticky geranium. The ranch is surrounded by dense forest. It was here, on this unassuming site, that the Wilderness Act and the modern conservation movement were born.

The Murie Ranch Historic District is an inholding in Grand Teton National Park. The district is chiefly significant for its association with the conservationists Olaus Murie, and scientist Adolph Murie.  Olaus and Adolph Murie were influential in the establishment of an ecological approach to wildlife management, carrying out research on predators as participants in an ecosystem rather than as isolated organisms. Olaus Murie was president of the Wilderness Society, and was an advocate for the preservation of wild lands in America.  Retreat accommodations will be at the historic and rustic Murie ranch.

For more information: contact Continuing and Professional Education at Antioch University New England, 603-283-2145 or ce.aune@antioch.edu,http://antiochne.edu/academics/continuing education/