What’s Your Advice?
Membership
Explore the most challenging questions of our time with societal leaders and changemakers
Join intimate conversations with Zen teachers, visionaries, and experts of various fields –
to reconnect with your values, your voice, and your way forward.
This is more than inspiration.
It’s a space for reflection, insight, and embodied presence.
What is your advice for the world today?
So many of us hope to make a positive difference in a world marked by suffering and crisis. But how? How can an individual impact complex societal systems? What should one do — and what might be asking too much? And even when the resolve is there, how do we actually change habits? How does transformation happen — personally and collectively?
You’ll hear from Zen teachers, changemakers, and visionaries — but more than that, you’ll be invited into your own reflection.
You’ll hear from Zen teachers, changemakers, and visionaries —
but more than that, you’ll be invited into your own reflection.
To listen. To remember.
To let your values become voice — and your insights become action.
This is not a classroom. It’s not a course.
It’s a space of shared presence.
A rhythm of wisdom, grounded in community and soul-aligned inquiry.
What this membership includes:
The What’s Your Advice? Membership offers more than inspiration —
it’s a structure of support for your inner path in everyday life.
Live Dialogue Sessions
Join monthly live sessions with Zen teachers, thought leaders, and spiritual pioneers.
Experience conversations that go beneath the surface — honest, unscripted, and alive.
🗣 No lectures. Just real-time presence and deep human exchange.
Full On-Demand Library
Access every interview and teaching at your own pace —
whenever it fits your rhythm and attention.
🎧 Because wisdom meets you best when you're ready to receive it.
Weekly Guided Email Journey
Every week, receive gentle prompts, reflections, and mini-practices to support real integration — not just inspiration.
✉️ A steady invitation to return to what matters, one small step at a time.
Reflection & Embodiment Tools
Each episode includes a simple contemplative or somatic practice
to help the wisdom land — in your body, your breath, your life.
🧘 Integration over information. Presence over performance.
Community Space
Enter a space of shared reflection, honest dialogue, and mutual support.
Ask questions, share insights, or simply witness others — all within a field of presence and care.
🤝 You’re not alone on this path. We grow wiser together.
Digital Practice Campus
Join a supportive space for sustained engagement — including:
- Daily morning & evening meditation streams
- Community forums for honest connection
- The Baker Roshi Archive for deep study and timeless insight
🌱 Practice is not something you do alone. This space holds you.
How the Membership Works
01
One Live Interview Session per month
Each month, Nicole Baden Roshi hosts a live session with a guest teacher or changemaker.
You can join live — or watch the recording in your own time.
02
A Study Guide for Integration
After each conversation, you’ll receive:
- A summary of Key Takeaways to further your own insight
- A short practice to embody what you’ve heard
- Access to the recordings to revisit each session
03
Ongoing Community Space
A digital space for shared reflection, insight exchange, and the possibility to pose your question to our speakers.
You’re invited to show up as you are — with your questions, comments, or things to share.
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On-Demand Access to Everything
Miss a session? Want to revisit something?
Your member portal holds all past conversations, resources, and practices — ready when you are.
Our Speakers & Topics
Join live sessions — or watch the recordings at your own pace — with leading voices in societal transformation. Each speaker offers powerful, actionable insights to help you meet complexity with clarity, care, and courage.
This year’s themes include:
- Navigating High Conflict: Learn from renowned negotiator William Ury how to move beyond polarization and tap into what he calls “the Possible” — even in the most difficult conversations.
- Seeing Into the Roots of Systemic Suffering: With Valerie Brown and others, explore the structures that sustain inequity and disconnection — and how contemplative awareness, healing practices, and inclusive leadership can open new paths forward.
- Fostering Global and Embodied Community: Sozan Miglioli, founder of Zen Without Borders, shares how to build authentic connection across cultures and continents — and why inner presence is key to sustaining collective resilience.
- Embedding Sustainability Into Complex Systems: Jason Kibbey, UC Berkeley climate solutions leader, brings deep expertise in systems thinking, entrepreneurial innovation, and environmental measurement — showing how values and strategy can align for large-scale impact.
- Facing and Healing Collective Trauma: Throughout the series, we’ll also explore how trauma — both personal and societal — shapes our world, and how clarity, compassion, and spiritual practice can support real healing.
The Speakers
Meet your Host
Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi
Abbot of Dharma Sangha & Founder of the Dharma Academy
Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi (*1981) is the Dharma successor of Zentatsu Baker Roshi. She has been practicing with the Dharma Sangha since 2001. Until 2009, she studied psychology at the University of Oldenburg and simultaneously completed a training in the body-oriented method Body-Mind Centering©. She then lived for four years at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado, USA, and has been at the Zen Buddhist Center Black Forest since 2013. In September 2024, Tatsudo Roshi officially assumed the Dharma succession and has since been guiding the spiritual direction of the Dharma Sangha as Abbot.
Pricing plans
Join Now – Your Membership Invitation
Your membership gives you full access to everything:
Live sessions, replays, reflection prompts, practice library, community space — and all upcoming voices.
FAQs
Please feel free to email support@dharmaacademy.com for any lingering questions.
Valerian Hauffe
Dharma Academy Support
Is this suitable for beginners?
Absolutely! Our courses have material for all seekers, no matter where you are on the path.
Do I need to be Buddhist?
Our courses and teachings are rooted in ancient Zen practice, but it is our intention that they are applicable to everyone, whether or not you identify as a Buddhist. It’s about thoroughly embodying wisdom views and learning how to act compassionately – even when we don’t feel like it.
What if I miss a session?
The Wisdom Curriculum is designed to support all learners at their own speed—the context of our lives looks different for everyone. All courses and Dharma talks are recorded and accessible at any time, so you can do the course at the pace that is right for you.
Can I cancel anytime?
You are welcome to cancel at any time the Dharma Academy Membership is no longer right for you—and you are welcomed back if you change your mind!
