The details below are from the previous program (Feb 2024), New details for the 2025 program will be posted early September 2024.
Anti-Racism for White-Bodied People in an Online Mindful Learning Community
Please Join Us: Judy Bernstein, Susie Clarion, Holly Nelson-Johnson, and Michele Zukerberg as we offer Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program for White-Bodied People.
This nine-week series integrates the transformative Buddhist practice of Insight Dialogue (relational mindfulness) with anti-racism education. We will explore and co-create white anti-racist culture within a dedicated, compassionate community of study and practice. Through present-moment awareness we may better understand the impact of racism and our own cultural conditioning without judgment.
Racism is rooted in greed, hatred, and delusion. Racism is both historical, as well as contemporary. Unless examined, it will continue to cause harm. This program is our fervent wish to lessen that suffering.
How might our uninvestigated cultural conditioning as white-bodied people contribute to harm for ourselves and others? The Brahmaviharas of lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity may serve as antidotes to racialized suffering. They support us in meeting and transforming our conditioning as white-bodied people. These qualities expand and connect our individual awareness to collective awakening.
Together let us hold an intention for cultivating respect and kindness towards all beings in order to live connected, wakeful lives. Let’s invest in becoming a community rooted in peace, resting in wisdom, and opening wide our hearts towards freedom.
Online Details: This program is hosted on Zoom and closed captions are available. You can check the time of the group sessions in your timezone here: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com. Please note that sessions will not be recorded for confidentiality purposes.
Contact: For more information contact program manager Nancy Zegarchuk at: [email protected]
Cancellation Policy: Registration fees for all online programs are nonrefundable after the program start date. Cancellations prior to the program start date incur a $25 cancellation fee. Application-based and online path programs incur a $50 cancellation fee in 2023 and a $100 cancellation fee beginning 2024.