By Vivian Manning-Schaffel — 2018
Our brains may be wired to empathize more with people who look like us, but being more empathetic starts with just listening.
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An hour of restoration and resilience with Resmaa Menakem, author of 'My Grandmother's Hands', to mindfully mend our hearts and bodies.
Resmaa Menakem is the author of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. He is an international speaker, healer, author, and leadership coach.
Buddhist teachers Spring Washam and Tara Brach share the challenges they are encountering, and the practices and insights that guide them during this time of radical inner and outer transformation. The format of this event is an honest and vulnerable conversation between two esteemed teachers.
Illuminating a path each of us can follow to a life filled with far greater racial awareness, connection, and joy. Rhonda V. Magee (M.A. Sociology, J.D.
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A conversation with Ruth King, author of Mindful of Racism: Transforming Race from the Inside Out.
Father Greg Boyle calls us to dismantle the shame that stands in the way of us being who we’re called to be in the world.
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In this clip from 1965, after leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X appears on CBC-TV's 'Front Page Challenge' weeks before his assassination. He proclaims, "I'm against any form of segregation and racism."
Jenée Johnson is a Program Innovation Leader in mindfulness, trauma and racial healing. She spoke on the subject of how leaders heal at the Wisdom 2.0 conference this year-Esalen was one of the community sponsors to the event.
Acclaimed as “one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time” (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country.