Upcoming
Programs and Events
Taking Action: Finishing the Unfinished and Starting the Unstarted
Feb. 21– March 22, 2025
Do you have something important that remains unfinished? Here’s a chance to turn your plan into reality. Using methods from Morita Therapy (The Psychology of Action) you’ll have the support, encouragement, and guidance you need to overcome practical and psychological obstacles and accomplish something that becomes part of your life and legacy. Whether you’re still in the idea stage, or stuck somewhere along the way, this program can help you to take action and move forward in the real world.
A Natural Approach to Mental Wellness
April 19 – May 19, 2025
During this month-long program, we will explore how to coexist with our internal experience, work with our attention, live with purpose, develop acceptance and practice self-reflection. The curriculum of the course spans the practical, the psychological and the spiritual. These dimensions are woven together throughout the course in the same way that they are woven together in our real lives. The program is broad enough to be widely relevant, and deep enough to offer new discoveries, as our lives continue to change and unfold over time.
7-Day Naikan Retreat
May 31 – June 7, 2025
Naikan is a practice of self-reflection originally developed in Japan.
Most people are born, live and die without ever taking the time to truly reflect on how they have lived their lives. In our busy lives it is hard to find time for serious, quiet reflection. But to fail to look closely at the reality of our lives is to ignore what Reality can teach us. This retreat provides an unusual opportunity to step back and examine your life.
Regrouping for the 2nd Half of the Year
June 26, 2025, 8:00 PM (ET)
The summer solstice gently reminds us that July is waiting on the doorstep and then we have the shocking thought, “Oh my God, the year is nearly half-over.” New year’s resolutions, goals, ambitions, hopes, lifestyle changes – where are they now? Are you on track? Does your life need a minor course correction? A complete makeover? Are you clear about the direction you’re taking? Confused or stuck in despair like Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita? Maybe it’s time to step back, take a breath and regroup. Let’s do that. I’ll be hosting a one-hour webinar sponsored by the ToDo Institute to offer ideas and support. A short talk, Q&A, discussion.
This is a free webinar for ToDo Institute members, conducted by Gregg Krech.
Residential Certification Program in Japanese Psychology
Aug. 30 – Sept. 6, 2025
This is our most comprehensive and experiential opportunity for the study and practice of Morita Therapy and Naikan. The program will be conducted by Gregg and Linda Krech at the ToDo Institute in Monkton, Vermont.
Step back from your day-to-day life, immerse yourself in the wisdom and beauty of Japanese Psychology, reflect on your life, develop new practices, soften your heart; open your mind; activate your senses; study transformative principles and become an integral part of this year’s residential community.
Gregg Krech and Linda Anderson Krech have been teaching Japanese Psychology for 30 years. Gregg is the author of five books on the subject, including the Amazon best-seller The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology, and the founding Director of the ToDo Institute.
This month-long adventure offers an ingenious way of enhancing mindfulness, solving problems, and revitalizing your life. We will provide you with the tools, structure and support to develop greater mindfulness in your personal and professional life. Each day of the month you will work with your attention in a deliberate, focused, and interesting way.
Gratitude, Grace and a Month of Self-Reflection
Nov. 16- Dec. 15, 2025
You are invited to join us for our annual Gratitude, Grace and a Month of Self-Reflection sponsored by the ToDo Institute. This is a distance learning program which gives you an opportunity to integrate the practice of self-reflection into your daily life. The program is based primarily on Naikan and Naikan-related exercises, but also draws on material and ideas of Albert Schweitzer, Ben Franklin, and others whose work emphasized the importance of quiet self-reflection. Many of us believe that it is important to take time for quiet reflection, but we don’t do it because our lives are so busy.
Living Fully with Illness
April 3 – May 1, 2025
(with weekly live webinars on April 5, 12, 19, and 26 — 11am-12:30pm ET)
The program is taught by Trudy Boyle, program coordinator for the ToDo Institute’s new Living Fully with Illness project. Trudy is the former project Director of Wellspring Calgary, a cancer resource center and has been working with cancer patients for 12 years and Japanese Psychology for the past 28 years.
Living on Purpose
Jan. 8 – Feb. 7, 2026
Join us for the a month of purposeful living! This program requires an average commitment of about 30 minutes per day — a substantial but not overwhelming commitment. Yet with the structured guidance provided by this program, and the online support of other program participants from around the world, you may actually succeed in devoting 15 hours during the course of the month towards the goal of living on purpose. You may be very pleasantly surprised by the noticeable difference these efforts can make.
