White Teachers Responding to Racism and Suffering: A Community Q&A with Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and Trudy Goodman

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Tara Brach, PhD Dharma Council, Visiting Teacher

Jack Kornfield, PhD Dharma Council, Visiting Teacher

Trudy Goodman, PhD Founding Teacher

Location Online
Experience Levels All
This class is a donation based class. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Date/Time Thursday, June 4, 2020
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM PT

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How do we best respond to the suffering of racial violence and dehumanization of African-Americans in our society?

During this gathering we will explore our questions in a safe and respectful container. Together, we’ll honor these painful times as a call for courageous action, affirming that truly, Black Lives Matter.

This event is sponsored by Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, InsightLA, and the Insight Meditation Community of Washington.

In addition to the live zoom gathering, this session will be livestreamed via Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/insightlameditation/

Tara Brach, PhD Dharma Council, Visiting Teacher

Tara Brach, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, an internationally known teacher of mindfulness meditation, and the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. She is author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge, and has contributed numerous articles to popular magazines and websites. Tara is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences where she discusses... Read more

Jack Kornfield, PhD Dharma Council, Visiting Teacher

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967 he joined the Peace Corps and worked on... Read more

Trudy Goodman, PhD Founding Teacher

Trudy Goodman, PhD, is the Founding Teacher of InsightLA, the first center to combine training in Insight (Vipassana) Meditation and in non-sectarian mindfulness and compassion practices, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). The fourth teacher ever of MBSR, Trudy taught with its creator, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and studied Buddhist meditation for 40... Read more

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