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

This event will close out Mindfulness Week 2024. You can view the entire lineup for Mindfulness Week on our dedicated event webpage. 

In this talk, based 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.

Dr. Larry Ward (he/him) is a celebrated poet, spiritual teacher and co-founder of The Lotus Institute. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Buddhism and the neuroscience of meditation, and has trained at the Trauma Resource Institute. He has forty years of international experience in organizational change and local community renewal. Larry was ordained as a Dharma teacher by Thich Nhat Hanh, the world-renowned peace activist and founder of the Plum Village tradition of Engaged Buddhism. As a teacher, Larry interweaves insights with personal stories and resounding clarity that express his Dharma name, “True Great Sound."

This event was supported in part by the Washington University in St. Louis Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.