Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the current travel advisory.
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Due to road closures along Highway 1 to our north and south, Esalen is closed through April 11.
Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the current travel advisory.

Esalen opens May 3, 2024

Visitors are now able to access Esalen as well as other businesses and trails in northern Big Sur via twice-daily convoys on Highway 1 operated by Caltrans.

Convoys run only at 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. each day. These are the only opportunities to travel into and out of Big Sur, so visitors must plan accordingly.

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Lee Mun Wah

Lee Mun Wah, MA special education, MS counseling, is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folk teller, educator, community therapist, and master diversity trainer. He is the executive director of StirFry Seminars & Consulting, a diversity training company that provides educational tools and workshops on cross-cultural communication and awareness, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques. 

His first documentary film, Stolen Ground, about the experience of Asian Americans, won honorable mention at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His most famous film about racism, The Color of Fear, won the Gold Medal for Best Social Studies Documentary, and in 1995, Oprah Winfrey did a one-hour special on Lee Mun Wah’s life and work that was seen by many. His most recent film, If These Halls Could Talk, was released in 2014. The film’s focus is on college students and their experience with racism and other diversity issues in higher education.

Thousands of people from government and social service agencies, corporations, and educational institutions have taken Lee Mun Wah’s workshops and partnered with Stirfry Seminars & Consulting on their diversity initiatives.

Lee Mun Wah is a renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, educator, community therapist, and master diversity trainer. He’s the executive director of StirFry Seminars & Consulting, providing educational tools and workshops on cross-cultural communication, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques.

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Lee Mun Wah

Lee Mun Wah, MA special education, MS counseling, is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folk teller, educator, community therapist, and master diversity trainer. He is the executive director of StirFry Seminars & Consulting, a diversity training company that provides educational tools and workshops on cross-cultural communication and awareness, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques. 

His first documentary film, Stolen Ground, about the experience of Asian Americans, won honorable mention at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His most famous film about racism, The Color of Fear, won the Gold Medal for Best Social Studies Documentary, and in 1995, Oprah Winfrey did a one-hour special on Lee Mun Wah’s life and work that was seen by many. His most recent film, If These Halls Could Talk, was released in 2014. The film’s focus is on college students and their experience with racism and other diversity issues in higher education.

Thousands of people from government and social service agencies, corporations, and educational institutions have taken Lee Mun Wah’s workshops and partnered with Stirfry Seminars & Consulting on their diversity initiatives.

Lee Mun Wah is a renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, educator, community therapist, and master diversity trainer. He’s the executive director of StirFry Seminars & Consulting, providing educational tools and workshops on cross-cultural communication, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques.

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