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Breaking Bias With Mindfulness
With Anu GuptaIn a world increasingly shaped by polarization, division, and disconnection, how can we cultivate greater awareness, compassion, and connection with ourselves and others? We all carry unconscious biases—learned habits of perception that shape how we think, feel, and respond to the world around us. Whether based on race, gender, religion, class, identity, or other differences, these habits can reinforce stereotypes, fuel misunderstanding, and keep us feeling separate from one another. The good news? What has been learned can be unlearned. In this 7-day meditation course, Anu Gupta, award-winning author of Breaking Bias, introduces five science-informed tools for transforming unconscious bias and cultivating greater awareness, compassion, and belonging. Rooted in neuroscience, mindfulness, and the science of neuroplasticity, these tools form the acronym PRISM®: Perspective-taking, pRosocial behaviors, Individuation, Stereotype replacement, and Mindfulness. Through guided meditations, reflections, and practical exercises, you'll learn to recognize conditioned patterns of thinking, soften automatic judgments, and develop new ways of relating to yourself and others. Breaking bias is not about blame, shame, or guilt. It's about recognizing our shared humanity and discovering our capacity for change. With consistent practice, we can begin to transform habits of separation into habits of connection and create the conditions for greater understanding, compassion, and belonging in our lives and communities. The journey from separation to connection begins within.
Discover science-backed practices to break unconscious bias, cultivate compassion, and transform separation into connection.
About this course
In a world increasingly shaped by polarization, division, and disconnection, how can we cultivate greater awareness, compassion, and connection with ourselves and others? We all carry unconscious biases—learned habits of perception that shape how we think, feel, and respond to the world around us. Whether based on race, gender, religion, class, identity, or other differences, these habits can reinforce stereotypes, fuel misunderstanding, and keep us feeling separate from one another. The good news? What has been learned can be unlearned. In this 7-day meditation course, Anu Gupta, award-winning author of Breaking Bias, introduces five science-informed tools for transforming unconscious bias and cultivating greater awareness, compassion, and belonging. Rooted in neuroscience, mindfulness, and the science of neuroplasticity, these tools form the acronym PRISM®: Perspective-taking, pRosocial behaviors, Individuation, Stereotype replacement, and Mindfulness. Through guided meditations, reflections, and practical exercises, you'll learn to recognize conditioned patterns of thinking, soften automatic judgments, and develop new ways of relating to yourself and others. Breaking bias is not about blame, shame, or guilt. It's about recognizing our shared humanity and discovering our capacity for change. With consistent practice, we can begin to transform habits of separation into habits of connection and create the conditions for greater understanding, compassion, and belonging in our lives and communities. The journey from separation to connection begins within.
Meet your Teacher
Anu Gupta, MPhil, JD, is an award-winning author, speaker, and institutional advisor whose work bridges neuroscience, contemplative practice, interspiritual wisdom, and human flourishing. He is the author of Breaking Bias, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, which offers a science-backed approach to cultivating greater awareness, compassion, resilience, and freedom. For more than a decade, Anu has coached and guided over 100,000 people through keynote presentations, executive advising, meditation retreats, and transformative learning experiences that support personal healing, wellbeing, constructive dialogue, and wise leadership. Drawing from Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and other contemplative traditions alongside modern neuroscience, he translates timeless wisdom into practical tools that cultivate wellbeing, compassion, resilience, and human flourishing. He has shared his work with over 300 organizations, including Dubai Future Forum, Google, TED, SxSW, and HSBC. Anu has spent more than 10,000 hours in silent meditation retreats across the United States and Asia. He is a 500-hour certified yoga and meditation teacher, a lifetime Fellow of the Mind & Life Institute, and a graduate of NYU School of Law and the University of Cambridge. He is also the author of Interspiritual Wellness in the Age of AI, a Substack exploring contemplative wisdom, wellbeing, and flourishing in a rapidly changing world. Together with Justin Senense, he co-created PAUSE™, an embodied, integrative wellbeing methodology that weaves together movement, music, meditation, and interspiritual wisdom to help people come home to themselves.