Mitchell’s guest for today’s show is international dharma teacher, Catherine Ingram. She works with communities all over Europe, Australia & the U.S., facilitating people’s deeper sense of themselves, cultivating awareness & self-inquiry.
Catherine is a co-founder of Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA,She also co-founded the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) in The Hague, Netherlands (1991) and is a member of the Committee of 100 for Tibet. For six years (1988-1994), Catherine also served as a board director for The Burma Project, dedicated to raising international awareness about the struggle for democracy in Burma. She is currently serving on the board of Global Animal Foundation, which works on behalf of the world’s animals.
A former journalist specializing in issues of consciousness and activism, Catherine Ingram is the author of two books of nonfiction, which are published in numerous languages: In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with Spiritual/Social Activists, Passionate Presence: Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness and a novel, A Crack in Everything.
Catherine is vibrant, warm and highly committed to the notions in her way we so espouse here at A Better World of “Spirit-in-Action” and “Sacred Stewardship”
Catherine was a guest on A Better World TV when Passionate Presence was released and I’m pleased to have her this visit to NY on A Better World Radio. She is offering a workshop at the NY Open Center this weekend.