How To Fight Injustice Without Hating - by Valerie Brown

COURSE

How To Fight Injustice Without Hating

With Valerie Brown

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.

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Meet your Teacher

Valerie Brown
New Hope, PA 18938, 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 application and integration of mindfulness and leadership.

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5 Days

4.2k students

4.8 stars

11 min / day

Recovery & Healing

English

Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Recent Reviews

Jesmn

March 31, 2025

Thank you. So much of what I’ve done to address racial injustice has been reactive and judgmental. Mindfulness practice will allow me to show up from a calm, grounded place.

Rochelle

February 22, 2025

With all that is happening currently; this course has given me the tools I need to NOT get angry. Taking deep breaths and remembering the GOOD. We will always have racial inequality & injustice. Not accepting it; but finding some sort PEACE.

Sam

December 6, 2023

Thank you so much for creating this course.

Dale

November 7, 2023

I really enjoy any strategies to continually work on racial and social justice. This work is so important. Thank you for offering these practices! Peace, Love, and Respect to you! 🕊️ ♥️ 🙏 ✊🏽

Sky

July 4, 2023

Beautifully done. Very calming and informative.

Tim

April 17, 2022

One of a kind. Very important content to hear and to use in my life. Much gratitude.

Dayla

December 9, 2021

Great voice —very soothing

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.

Kirsten

May 4, 2021

Beautifully presented ❤️

Esmé

April 27, 2021

Thank you for this much-needed course. 🙏🏽

Tina

April 27, 2021

Great reminders.

Peggy

April 20, 2021

Thank you. I learned a great deal.

Stephanie

March 10, 2021

Excellent course. Thank you very much

Emma

January 31, 2021

Brilliant

E

January 30, 2021

So grateful for this course and practice. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Dez

January 27, 2021

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

Barbara

January 24, 2021

This was so valuable. Thank you 🙏🏽.

Mel

December 30, 2020

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

Karlin

December 1, 2020

I so appreciate this course. I chose to listen to it all in one morning but actually will listen to it again.

Tatramountain

November 14, 2020

Some good tips, especially around the critical ethical dimension of mindfulness practice.

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