Intergenerational Learning: Youth, Elders, and the Continuity of Wisdom

Event description: 

November 5, 2025

Online at 7:00 p.m. ET

With Mary Evelyn Tucker, Peter Senge, Stephen Posner, Binbin Wang, and Zongxu (Hazim) Xie

We will explore the value of mentorship and model intergenerational dialogue that spans timeframes and contexts. We will warmly invite perspectives from across various life stages to inform ecological identity and moral literacy, sustain cultural regeneration, and consider the longer-range past and future in order to understand our place in the present.

Key questions:

  • How can intergenerational learning foster a deeper commitment to planetary health?
  • How can younger generations be supported in cultivating ecological awareness and ethical responsibility?
  • How can we reimagine education to integrate relational worldviews, contemplative practices, and compassionate learning systems?
  • How can we integrate what we’ve been learning into practical possibilities? What does cultivation for personal, social, and institutional change look like?

Co-sponsored by the Pathways to Planetary Health initiative at the Garrison Institute and the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

This event is part of the Global Speaker Series on “Cultivating Ecological Civilization: Wisdom, Practice, and Systems Change.”

Contact:  events@garrisoninstitute.org

Register here.