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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.

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

Ethics of Belonging of Indigenous Contemplative Traditions by Yuria Celidwen

Brown Hall Lounge

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.

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