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For those who have previously joined the transformative Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (ZASP) course; for continued access to all course content and to stay connected to the wider global alumni community.
Why Join the Alumni Pathway?
This pathway is an opportunity for those who have joined the ZASP course and would like to sustain your practice and learning as part of the global community. Joining this pathway will help you to deepen the learnings and experiences from the ZASP course:
- Balancing personal wellbeing with climate action;
- Mastering difficult emotions and developing inner resilience;
- Knowing you are not alone, being part of an engaged global community.
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What Does the Alumni Pathway Offer?
Ongoing Access to Course Content
Guaranteed access to all course teachings and practices until at least 2028.
Live Events
Connect live and gain inspiration to embed the practice and learnings into your daily life.
Global Community
Connect with other mindful changemakers in the ZASP alumni community. Know you are not alone.
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What are the Practicalities of the Alumni Pathway?
- This pathway is very flexible, supporting you to connect with the course content at a relaxed pace. From September 2026 – December 2026 you will be able to explore the course content at your own pace and re-connect with the community, and then from January 2027 we will go through the course content together over six to seven months (one week of the original course covered in one month).
- There will be regular live events offered through this pathway, which you can access via Zoom. The first event will be in September 2026, and then more regular monthly / bi-montly events will be offered from January 2027. All events will be confirmed ahead of time and recorded for those who cannot make it live.
- We will support a public list of sharing groups which are still meeting since the course, and we will provide ways for you to connect further in the community.
If we are a drop of water and we try to get to the ocean as only an individual drop, we will surely evaporate along the way. To arrive at the ocean, you must go as a river. The sangha is your river
Thich Nhat Hanh
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What Will You Learn?
Sustain Your Practice
Gain support to sustain your mindfulness practice over time, to create the stability needed to handle the times we are living in.
Deepen Your Insight
Through continued access to ZASP course content you can further develop the insight of interbeing, and touch a greater wonder and mystery in life.
Community Inspired Action
The power of community will help to support you to feel empowered to embed the teachings from ZASP into your daily life, work place and activism.
ZASP continues to inspire and motivate me, helping me connect more deeply with myself and my fellow living beings.
Kata, ZASP alumni
ZASP has a profound impact on my life… Practicing together, in a community, made me feel seen, heard, and understood.
Ági, ZASP alumni
It is a gift to hear people so committed to this relationship between the well-being of the planet and our own well-being.
Rosario, ZASP alumni
Building community is an essential response to the crises that we face. It is in collectivity that we find our strength, our refuge, our joy, our inspiration – and even our meaning.
Sister True Dedication
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Pricing
Just as with the ZASP course, our aim is to make the alumni pathway financially accessible whilst covering the costs involved and, if possible, supporting the international Plum Village monastic community.
Standard Rate | $100 >>
This rate helps us sustain the alumni pathway and monastic community that is making it possible to offer.
Discount Rate | $75 >>
For people on a lower income that are unable to afford the standard rate.
Scholarships | $0 – $30 >>
For those who were eligible for and received scholarships for the ZASP course – which includes those who identify as one or more of the following: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour), from the Global Majority (Africa, Asia, Central and South America), a young person (35 and under) and / or a person with disabilities.
Sponsor Rate | $200 >>
This option helps sustain the course and enables us to offer more scholarships.
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Join us on the alumni pathway:
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Frequently Asked Questions
For the main course FAQs, please search in our knowledge base: zaspfaq.plumvillage.org. FAQs specific to the alumni pathway will be added soon.
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