CONSCIOUS CHANGE COLLECTIVE
A Community of Spirituality & Social Change.
The Challenge
Disconnected from Source, Self & Other
As social and environmental crises escalate, many change leaders find themselves stretched thin, navigating burnout and isolation. Too often, we’re forced to choose between inner work and outer action, between care for the soul and care for the world. Disconnected from land, each other, and our deeper wisdom, we often rush to fix complex problems without the grounded presence or collective insight needed for lasting change. In a culture of fear and division, more conscious and collaborative approaches can offer new possibilities.
Currently, a vibrant movement is growing: around the world, people are weaving spirituality, contemplative practice, and community wisdom into social and climate justice. But these efforts remain fragmented. Too many of us are working in silos—missing the chance to learn from one another, share what works, and build power together.
The Opportunity
Weaving a New Field
What if our efforts were part of a larger generative field—one that values reflection and action, spirit and strategy, healing and justice? Now is the time to unite and make this field visible —to co-create a movement rooted in interconnection, wisdom, and collective transformation.
This is an invitation to join a living ecosystem of practitioners working from the inside out —to share insights and build the connective tissue that will amplify our collective impact.
Meet the Map
What is the Conscious Change Collective?
A project of the Garrison Institute’s Spirituality and Social Change Program and Circles for Conscious Change, the Collective is a collaborative field of actors applying inner work and spirituality towards social change.
We aim to support a more conscious and cohesive field of action by bringing together organizations and communities to share wisdom, practices, and strategies — strengthening connection, visibility, and momentum for transformative impact.
What is our Social Systems Map?
It’s a crowd-sourced, living map of this emerging field. Our first step is to center organizations that see contemplative practice, inner work or spirituality as:
Core to their values
Embedded their theory of change
Integral to / integrated within their programs and impact
The map will be designed to illuminate the field, spark collaboration, and support the flow of learning and resources. By building community and making visible the deep wisdom already at work, together we can co-create and scale deep, systemic transformation.
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MODALITY: How are organizations using mindfulness to achieve social change and what are best practices across their work? Take a look at the field of practitioners in our directory view.
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SOCIAL ISSUE: What is the role of inner work or spirituality in addressing climate change? Who is working on this issue and in what ways are they connected? Explore how we are connected in the relationship view.
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GEOGRAPHY: Where are there hubs of contemplative action and how are they creating impact across cities? Take a look at our geographical view.
Explore the Map
Are spiritually-grounded organizations better positioned to drive systems change and enhance belonging? And if so, how does the wisdom of applied contemplative practice, spiritual values and/or inner work contribute?
This map allows you to explore a range of key questions across our field. You can examine individual or select communities of actors by location, characteristic, contemplative modality, social issue and several other filters. And you can draw insights from a database of organizational values, practices, program models, policies, theories, and impact. How might you use the map for your own learning?
Navigate the Map
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From the side panel, choose Directory or Relationship View. Use the filters in the top left corner to select a subset of actors according to the chosen characteristics. Click on “Toggle Pop Up” and then when you hover over each node, you will get a tiny panel with more details. Click on a node, and the side panel will reveal that organization’s complete profile. Click on the three vertical dots on the left hand side to open and close the side panel.
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From the Relationships View, use the bottom right menu of “Strength of Connection” to choose which relationships you would like to isolate on the map - funding, collaborative, etc. Hover over the bottom right images and click on “Metrics” and then choose “Social Network Analysis” to explore the ways which organizations are most connected.
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Click here for a range of short video tutorials to help you learn how to use the different functions of the map to learn more about this field and its actors.
Go Deeper
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MAP TUTORIAL: Watch tutorials on how to navigate the map.
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RESEARCH: For more in-depth research, request specific data from the map.
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JOIN THE COLLECTIVE: Share a bit about your work, your approach, and how you integrate inner and outer transformation.
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GROW OUR COMMUNITY: Know an organization aligned with our Collective? Please tell us more so we can reach out.
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LEARN FIELD WISDOM: In the coming months, we will be sharing some of the wisdom of our field.
Connect With Us
Join us, January 20-23, 2026 at the Garrison Institute when our field of Spirituality, Inner Work and Contemplative Practice for Social Change will gather to connect, share wisdom, and explore collaboration. Details coming soon.
If you are a funder and interested in special opportunities to engage with our members, contact Gretchen@Garrisoninstitute.org for more information.
Our Values
Our endeavor is guided by the following contemplative and spiritual values.
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We’re committed to a culture of care and respect, to our own personal growth work, and to learning from our differences with curiosity and humility.
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We show up with openness, honesty, compassion, consent, and kindness. Committed to inclusive wellbeing, including community care and self-care, we extend dignity and reverence for all creation.
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We embrace a more conscious and relational approach to engaging in our work together. We commit to repair conflict with compassion and accountability, to dismantle systems of dominance with courage and care, and to act mindfully as we move towards collective liberation.
If you feel aligned with these values and contemplative, spiritual, or inner practices are core to your work in social change—we’d love to connect.
Who We Are
The Garrison Institute Spirituality & Social Change Program
The Spirituality & Social Change Program is working to make visible and help catalyze a generative field at the intersection of contemplative practice, spirituality, and social change. The Conscious Change Collective is a program of the Garrison Institute’s Spirituality & Social Change Program in collaboration with Circles for Conscious Change.
The Garrison Institute
The Garrison Institute is a non-profit organization located in Garrison, New York that develops and hosts retreats and symposia, produces research and publications, and provides a hub for ongoing learning networks. The Garrison Institute’s mission is to apply the skills and wisdom cultivated through contemplative practice, together with the insights emerging from science, to today’s urgent social and environmental challenges, leveraging transformational change and helping build a more compassionate, resilient future.
Circles for Conscious Change, LLC
Circles for Conscious Change, is a transformative education firm working with social entrepreneurs, non-profits, and academic institutions on Conscious Social Change – a body of work and methodology for using inner work and mindfulness as design tools for social innovation.
Field Co-Creators & Advisors
The Conscious Change Collective is a field-driven endeavor. Since February 2023 it has been envisioned, designed, and guided by a community of Senior Advisors and Field Co-Creators - representing practitioners, activists, researchers, philanthropists, networks, and thinkers from seven countries on four continents working across a range of social issues. We invite you to explore the work of this amazing community.
Freedom Together Foundation
Garrison’s Spirituality & Social Change Program and this map is made possible by the Freedom Together Foundation. The Freedom Together Foundation is focused on building a deeper and broader pro-democracy movement, with organizations led by working-class people at the center.