Mindfulness Book Club: The Inner Work of Racial Justice Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
with Tracy Ochester, CMT-200 CANCELLED
Mindfulness Book Club: The Inner Work of Racial Justice Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
with Tracy Ochester, CMT-200
with Tracy Ochester, CMT-200
CANCELLED
Sorry - that class has been cancelled!
Join Deah Robinson and Tracy Ochester, PsyD for a community exploration of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness - An essential mindfulness and compassion-based approach to confront racial injustice and work towards healing by Rhonda V Magee, MA, JD.
"Law professor and mindfulness practitioner Rhonda Magee shows that the work of racial justice begins with ourselves. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of our own tribe, and to blame others. The practice of embodied mindfulness–paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way–increases our emotional resilience, helps us to recognize our unconscious bias, and gives us the space to become less reactive and to choose how we respond to injustice. It is only by healing from injustices and dissolving our personal barriers to connection that we develop the ability to view others with compassion and to live in community with people of vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints. Incorporating mindfulness exercises, research, and Magee’s hard-won insights, The Inner Work of Racial Justice offers a road map to a more peaceful world."
- When: 5 Tuesday evenings from 7-8:30 pm US Central Time
- Where: Online via Zoom (Your Zoom link will arrive with your registration confirmation email)
- Cost: $100 (MAM members use discount code MEMBERS20 at checkout for 20% off - membership is as low as $15 per month. In accordance with our value of generosity, those with extreme financial need are welcome to use our "Pay What You Can" pass which you should purchase first before registering)
No refunds are given after the start of the course. No makeup meetings are offered for missed classes. In the unlikely event that the course is canceled, you will receive a full refund of the registration fee.
Schedule (Tuesdays from 7-8:30 pm US Central time)
- September 27 - Part 1 Grounding
- October 4 - Part 2 Seeing
- October 11 - Part 3 Being
- October 18 - Part 4 Doing
- November 1 - Part 5 Liberating
Book Reviews
- “This book opens doors for all of us to better understand the conditioning that keeps us feeling so separate and apart. Rhonda Magee is a significant new voice I’ve wanted to hear for a long time—a voice both unabashedly powerful and deeply loving in looking at race and racism. Most important, Rhonda’s voice is a practical one, illuminating a path each of us can follow to a life filled with far greater awareness, connection, and peace.”—Sharon Salzberg, New York Times-bestselling author of Real Happiness
- “Illuminates the very heart of social justice and how it might be approached and nurtured through mindfulness practices in community and through the discernment and new degrees of freedom these practices entrain.” –from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- “How can we begin to explore, understand, and finally, undo the painful injustice of racism that is so deeply embedded in us? Illuminated by her work in meditation and mindfulness practice, Rhonda Magee has spent her life considering this question. Her knowledge, wisdom, sensitivity, and compassion shine through every page of The Inner Work of Racial Justice. This book should be read slowly and carefully by everyone. Do its exercises, ponder its nuances. Take it to heart—you can’t afford not to.”—Norman Fischer, founder and spiritual director of the Everyday Zen Foundation
- “With warmth, knowledge, and personal storytelling, Rhonda Magee offers us a path to look into the painful truths of structural racial oppression with mindfulness and compassion, which provides the necessary emotional grounding to skillfully work through the pain to generate new solutions through authentic connections to more communities. It may take generations to undo the harms of systemic racial oppression, but with this revolutionary book, Rhonda brings us many generations closer.” —Helen Weng, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco
- “A powerful, courageous, and compelling exploration of the role of mindfulness in working toward racial justice, and of working toward racial justice as an element of mindfulness. This book is essential reading for our time.”—Joan Halifax, PhD, founder of the Upaya Zen Center
- “Making explicit connections between personal and social change, Rhonda Magee offers us a transformative roadmap forward for racial justice work. Infused with both love and rigor, this book is essential reading, full of hard-won insights from a teacher who walks her talk.”—David Treleaven, PhD, author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
- “According to Rhonda Magee, we have been living in an uneasy truce between races since the civil rights movement, and Magee brilliantly facilitates strengthening our will and courage to turn toward each other despite our fears. In essence, she puts shoes on our bruised feet, grabs us by the hand, and walks us further down the path started over fifty years ago.”—Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, author of The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender
- “An invitation to tend to our individual and collective racial healing, this book contains a powerful message of hope in light of the complex problems before us. In it, we find that through radical mindfulness it may be possible to develop the racial literacy needed to create and sustain the kind of society our founding fathers envisioned.”—Angel Acosta, former board member of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
