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Change ‘Gon Come: Black Love-Power and The Inner Work of Racial Justice

The inaugural talk of the CRE2-funded Mindfulness & Anti-Racism series was given by Rhonda Magee, a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and internationally-recognized thought and practice leader focused on integrating mindfulness into higher education, law and social justice.

How to Fight Injustice Without Hating: Connecting Mindfulness with Social Justice

Valerie Brown was our speaker in our second talk in the Mindfulness and Anti-Racism series funded through a grant from the Center for Race and Ethnicity and with support from the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Washington University School of Medicine, with her talk How to Fight Injustice Without Hating: Connecting Mindfulness with Social Justice.

Decolonizing Mindfulness, Mindful Decolonization, and Social Work Futurities

In collaboration with the Mindfulness Working Group at WashU, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity and the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies, Dr. Michael Yellow Bird presented on his pioneering work on Indigenous Mindfulness which draw on his most recent article, “Decolonizing Mindfulness, Mindful Decolonization and Social Work Futurities.”

Teaching to Transform: Awareness as a Path to Social Justice

For the fourth talk in our Mindfulness and Anti-Racism series, when we had the honor and fortune of hosting Dr. Marisela Gomez in collaboration with the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion leaders from the Brown School

Building Bridges not Walls: Applying Lessons from Contemplative Science to Enhance Equity and Inclusion in the Classroom, Clinic and Beyond

On Friday March 31st, we held the 5th lecture in our Mindfulness and Anti-Racism series. Dr. Chang is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Silver School of Social Work at New York University.

WashU Mindfulness Day 2023

Mindfulness practices have existed for thousands of years, and have seen a newfound explosion of popularity in the 21st Century. Join us for a daylong exploration of modern and traditional mindfulness practices.
Umrath Hall

Finding Refuge, One Moment at a Time: Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees

Dr Amit Bernstein, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Observing Minds Lab and the Moments of Refuge Project, in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Haifa, delivered the 6th talk in our Mindfulness and Anti-Racism Lecture Series
Umrath Lounge

M4: Mindfulness Mechanisms & Methods Meeting

Ethics of Belonging of Indigenous Contemplative Traditions by Yuria Celidwen

Brown Hall Lounge

Working Group Meeting

Psychedelic Science, Contemplative Practices, and Indigenous and Other Traditional Knowledge Systems: Towards Integrative Community-Based Approaches in Global Health

Speaker: Dr. Diana Parra
Zoom

Working Group Meeting

Working Group Meeting

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Working Group Meeting

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Working Group Meeting

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Working Group Meeting

Zoom

Working Group Meeting

Mindfulness Science & Practice working group meetings take place every other week.
Zoom

Journal Club

Join our Journal Club for a discussion of academic articles on the science of mindfulness.

Working Group Meeting

Mindfulness Science & Practice working group meetings take place every other week.
Zoom

Mindfulness Week 2024

Join the Mindfulness Science and Practice group at WashU for four days of music, art, movement, silence and stillness. We will experience community and conversation, insight, rest and reflection. The full-line up is coming soon, but here are some highlights.

Mindfulness Week Keynote Lecture: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a teacher, best-selling author and the Spiritual leader of the Tergar Sangha worldwide. Rinpoche’s teachings weave together his own personal experiences with modern scientific research, relating both to the practice of meditation.
Zoom & Live Watch Party

8th Mindfulness & Anti-Racism Speaker: Dr. Larry Ward

Author of America’s Racial Karma Co-Founder of the Lotus Institute Senior teacher in the Plum Village tradition
Zoom & Live Watch Party

Working Group Meeting

Mindfulness Science & Practice working group meetings take place every other week.
Zoom

Journal Club

Join our Journal Club for a discussion of academic articles on the science of mindfulness.

Working Group Meeting

Mindfulness Science & Practice working group meetings take place every other week.
Zoom

Working Group Meeting

Mindfulness Science & Practice working group meetings take place every other week.
Zoom

Working Group Meeting

Mindfulness Science & Practice working group meetings take place every other week.
Zoom

Dr. Larry Ward: “Hear the Rolling Thunder of Race”

Dr. Larry Ward is the eighth speaker in WashU Mindfulness Science & Practice’s Mindfulness & Anti-Racism Speaker Series. In this Zoom webinar-based talk, built on Dr. Ward's book America's Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal, we will explore the origins of race as a social psychology, our consciousness of shared trauma, the iceberg and duality of race conditioning, and the antidotes of spiritual and social repair.

Working Group Meeting

Mindfulness Science & Practice working group meetings take place every other week.
Zoom

Journal Club

Join our Journal Club for a discussion of academic articles on the science of mindfulness.
https://wustl.zoom.us/j/93371752737