4.8

5 dias

How To Fight Injustice Without Hating

Por Valerie Brown JD, MA, PCC

O que você irá aprender

This is a 5-day course on how to work toward greater racial and social justice without succumbing to hatred and violence ourselves in our efforts to bring about change. You will come to understand systemic and structural racism and why it's important to you, unconscious bias and how this hinders progress, and white privilege and fragility as a form of suffering as well as how these contribute to racial and social inequity. Finally, you will learn how to skillfully handle strong emotions for inner peace and calm. Join Valerie in these powerful teachings.

Valerie Brown JD, MA, PCC

Pennsylvania, USA

Valerie transformed her high-pressure career as a lawyer-lobbyist to human-scale work with diverse leaders and teams to foster trustworthy, compassionate, and authentic connections. She is an ordained Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition, an accredited leadership coach, international retreat leader, and a writer specializing in the...

Lição 1

Structures & Systems Of Racial & Social Injustice

Racial and social injustice and systems of inequity are embedded in our society through unequal access to education, healthcare, housing, employment, and much more. In other words, racism is woven into the very fabric of society. Discrimination in all forms is suffering and mindfulness can help as a path of practice to self-awareness, self-compassion, understanding, and peace within the self and in the world.

Lição 2

How Does Systemic & Social Injustice Relate To Mindfulness?

When racial discrimination permeates the very fabric of society, it becomes internalized by everyday people and is called internalized dominance or superiority or internalized oppression or inferiority. Mindfulness can help us gain greater clarity and thus recognize when we are being reactive or defensive. It can help us stop, pause, breath, and reframe toward more skillful action.

Lição 3

Understanding Our Unconscious Bias That Hinders Skillful Action

Implicit bias occurs when we have attitudes toward people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge. Research shows that most of our actions occur without our conscious thoughts, allowing us to function in our extraordinarily complex world. This means, however, that our implicit biases often predict how we’ll behave more accurately than our conscious values. Mindfulness tempers the automatic response of implicit bias.

Lição 4

Developing Inner Calm & Strength

Research indicates that our emotional reaction to both positive and negative events can persist long after the event has passed. In that regard, a completely unrelated event that occurs in the wake of an evocative emotional experience can ‘color’ our perception or evaluation of the unrelated event. Mindfulness as a practice helps us notice and become aware of emotions and especially, take care of strong emotions.

Lição 5

Centering Racial & Social Justice In Our Lives

Through mindfulness we can consciously recognize that our response to others might be rooted in biases or stereotypes, and adjust our response. We can adjust our perspective and try seeing things from another person's point of view. This helps center our aspirations toward racial and social justice and conscious, engaged action.

Avaliações Recentes

4.77

240

Larry

November 14, 2021

This course is on point. It opened up awareness in so many areas concerning personal social justice. This course provided examples of mindfulness engagement, leaving me with a sense of peace through empowerment.

Dez

January 27, 2021

Thank you for developing this course and meditations to address these very important topics 🙏

Mel

December 30, 2020

Fantastico! This helps me continue to practice mindfulness 🧘🏽‍♂️ meditation. Namaste 🙏🏽 and thanks

Henry

October 2, 2020

Thanks Valerie for a great course!

Suba

September 20, 2020

Incredible course. Applicable to more than fighting racial injustice. I’ve listened twice now, and begun implementing the practices in my life to great effect. Thank you.

Tina

September 9, 2020

This was wonderful. Hope you plan on doing a longer course.

James

August 21, 2020

I was given new tools and ideas to help me navigate through conscious. Thank you.

AnneMarie

August 16, 2020

Calming and insightful, an excellent handling of racial stereotypes.

Rebecca

August 15, 2020

Thank you. The content of your course is so essential. Mindfulness is at the root of racial and social justice. So clear and so evident. I enjoyed your calm delivery very much. I hope to find your guided meditations somewhere on Insight Timer. Thank you again for your wisdom. Rébecca

Gregg

August 14, 2020

Thanks for sharing I will do my best to practice what was taught me on a daily basis.

Sam

August 10, 2020

Especially enjoyed Day 5 and the walking meditation.

Scott

August 7, 2020

Very insightful. Thank you.

Riona

August 6, 2020

Great introductory course on racism today and how to deal with it on a personal level. Learned some new meditation techniques too! Thank you for sharing your wisdom!

Linda

August 6, 2020

Thank you for this course. I’m reminded that growth is a daily practice.

Leslie

August 5, 2020

Thank you, Valerie. I greatly enjoyed the material you presented, your kind voice and gentle pacing. I appreciate how you blended ideas from other teachers into your own course focusing on racial justice. Many thanks 🙏🏻

Evelyn

August 5, 2020

This course offers practical ideas for me in my daily life. For the first time, I am starting to understand the concept of RAIN and can relisten to the fourth session. Thank you very much for this course! 🌺🌸

Viviane

August 3, 2020

Rich, relevant, and helpful combo of mindfulness, social justice, and grounded in research. Beneficial for beginners and experienced practioners. Thank you Valerie Brown. 🙏

Jaime

August 2, 2020

Great! Very helpful and insightful! ✨🙏🏽🥰

Valerie Brown JD, MA, PCC's Collection

5 dias

Valerie Brown JD, MA, PCC

How To Fight Injustice Without Hating

4.8

13 min

Valerie Brown JD, MA, PCC

4.7(519)

Trusted by 34 million people. It's free.

Get the app