The Mindful Activist workshop explores how we maintain our sanity and our spirit of activism in the face of harsh global realities and catastrophic expectations. The key question is how do each one of us choose to be in the
world. The core challenge is to integrate action with personal grounding. The workshop will combine discussion with interactive exploration and brief meditations.

This workshop will be an introduction to the themes covered in a two day training that Janos Maté facilitates for Greenpeace.

Janos Maté is an activist who has over a lifetime engaged in campaigns and direct actions against war, nuclear weapons, environmental destruction, global poverty, and keeping whales and dolphins in captivity. He has been
arrested several times, including for occupying the nuclear test sites in Nevada, occupying the French Consulate in Vancouver in opposition to nuclear testing in the Pacific, and opposing raw log exports in Vancouver harbour.
In 1995 he sailed to the South Pacific to oppose and bear witness to French underground nuclear explosions.

He has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a wide variety of humanitarian causes through the production of large scale benefit events, concerts and telethons.

With undergraduate and graduate degrees from UBC and SFU, he was formerly a social worker, psychotherapist, and college instructor. Since 1989 he has been a Greenpeace campaigner.

Janos Maté has received awards from the Governor General of Canada, United Nations Montreal Protocol, and in 2010, from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.