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In this Episode of Brown Rice Hour, Konda Mason talks with Thanissara about Buddhist nunhood, the patriarchy, and daring to do.
Thanissara is a teacher, poet, climate activist, and co-founder of the Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat. She spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun and holds an MA in Core Process Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy Practice. Thanissara was a founding member of Chithurst and Amaravati Buddhist Monasteries in England. She helped initiate/support a number of HIV/Aids response projects in deep rural South Africa. In addition, she has facilitated meditation retreats internationally for 30 years. She teaches across the U.S., in South Africa, and the UK. She is the author of several books, including her most recent, Time To Stand Up, A Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth.
Explore the intersection of Buddhism & Bhakti with Be Here Now Network teachers and guests at the inaugural Love Serve Remember Summer Mountain Retreat August 25th â 29th in Boone, NC!
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Konda Mason and Tara Brach join forces to bring awareness to the treatment of non-human animals, and talk about how we can attend to this crucial domain of compassion.
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Tara Brach has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975, as well as leading workshops and meditation retreats at centers throughout North America and Europe. She has a PhD in clinical psychology, is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, and is the author of several beloved books, including Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness. Learn more about Tara and her offerings at tarabrach.com, plus donât miss out on her podcast.
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Konda Mason, Kate Johnson, Crystal Johnson PhD, & Dawn Haney discuss their experience bringing anti-racism work to mindfulness teacher trainings.
Kate Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher, writer, dancer, and mom who loves integrating embodiment, justice, and the practice of wise relationship in all of her work. She leads courses and retreats integrating somatic movement, social justice, creativity, and the practice of wise relationships. She is the author of the book Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World. For more info, check out at www.katejohnson.com
Crystal Johnson PhD is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland, CA, where she also serves on the Leadership Sangha (Board) and as a member of the Radical Inclusivity Committee. In her teaching, she focuses on creating/co-creating programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression, and create truly inclusive sangha.
Dawn Haney is a teacher, coach, and consultant committed to helping communities and organizations how to navigate change while attending to dynamic of identity and power. They braid together wisdom from Buddhism, social justice, and psychology traditions and alchemize this with their own experiences as a white, fat, queer, chronically ill, nonbinary femme to support individual and community change through social movements, from migrant justice to fat liberation. More info at DawnHaney.net
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Dharma teacher and author, Kaira Jewel Lingo, joins Konda in conversation around spirituality, social justice, community, Thich Nhat Hanh, acceptance, apocalypse, and collective healing.
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Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher who has a lifelong interest in blending spirituality and meditation with social justice. She received Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh and became a Zen teacher in 2007, and is a teacher in the Vipassana Insight lineage through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Kaira teaches and leads retreats internationally, provides spiritual mentoring, and interweaves art, play, nature, racial and earth justice, and embodied mindfulness practice in her teaching. She especially feels called to share the Dharma with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as activists, educators, youth, artists, and families. Check out her new book We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption, and discover more offerings at KairaJewel.com
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In this Brown Rice Hour, Konda Mason welcomes Paul Hawken for a conversation about his new book, Regeneration, and how it offers a visionary new approach to climate change.
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is one of the environmental movementâs leading voices, and the founder of Project Drawdown, a non-profit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed. Paulâs latest book is Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation. To learn more about him, visit paulhawken.com.
Head to regeneration.org for the worldâs largest, most complete listing and network of solutions to the climate crisis.
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In this episode of the Brown Rice Hour, Konda Mason welcomes Carol Cano for a conversation around hands-on healing, cross-cultural mindfulness, and the importance of our origin stories.
Carol Cano brings a unique combination of Basque, Native American and Buddhist influences into her teaching. She is the founder of Braided Wisdom, a non-profit that empowers diverse communities by fostering transformational change through integrating indigenous wisdom teachings and cross-cultural mindfulness practices. Carol also co-founded Philippine Insight Meditation Community in the Philippines, and is a teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. You can learn more about her at carolcano.com.
âBecause thereâs not a culture in the world â when you think of what we have in common â that doesnât have the healing arts, that doesnât have their own medicine, that doesnât have their own story, that doesnât have their own dance⊠Thereâs so much that we have in common than not. So, how do we begin to bridge our universal understanding?â â Carol Cano
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In this episode of the Brown Rice Hour, Konda Mason speaks with Noliwe Alexander about her work with two non-profit organizations, Peace At Any Pace and Deep Time Liberation.
Noliwe Alexander has been a student of Vipassana meditation for over 20 years. Throughout this time of deep devotion to the Dharma, Noliwe has become a dedicated practitioner and meditation teacher. She dedicates her BuddhaDharma practice and teachings to the BiPOC, LGBTQIA+, At Risk and Elder communities. Noliwe is the founder of Peace At Any Pace, a non-profit organization that offers healing opportunities through culturally specific journeys. She is also a facilitator for Deep Time Liberation, a non-profit organization that offers ancestral healing journeys.
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On Being's Krista Tippett joins Konda for a conversation on kinship, faith, spirituality, Black voices, democracy, Dr. Vincent Harding, and being comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Krista Tippett is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, a National Humanities Medalist, and a New York Times bestselling author. Krista is Founder and CEO of The On Being Project, a nonprofit media and public life initiative; host of the radio programs and podcasts, On Being and Becoming Wise; and Curator of The Civil Conversations Project. For more information about her ongoing work at the intersection of spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, community, poetry, arts, race, and healing, please visit onbeing.org
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Mindfulness teacher Larry Yang joins Konda Mason for a conversation about the power of the immigrant experience, creating opportunities in the realm of mindfulness, and much more.
Larry Yang teaches mindfulness and loving-kindness retreats nationally and has a special interest in creating access to the Dharma for diverse, multicultural communities. He is the author of Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community, and is also a senior advisor in Mindfulness and Healing Justice for the Kataly Foundation. Learn more about him at larryyang.org.
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Peace educator, Dr. David Ragland, joins Konda Mason for deep truth-telling, exploring the heart-level spiritual change needed for true reparations and transformation of a racist system.
David Ragland, PhD, is the co-founder and co-director of the Truth Telling Project and director of the Grassroots Reparations Campaign. An educator, thought-leader, human rights, racial justice, and anti-war advocate; Georgetown University's Advocacy Lab included his research as part of the most important research on advocacy in the past 40 years. Dr. Ragland was recently inducted into the MLK Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College, and has served as the Sr. Bayard Rustin Fellow at the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and as a Board Member for the Peace and Justice Studies Association.
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Konda Mason invites Nwamaka Agbo to the Brown Rice Hour for conservation around the concept of Restorative Economics, the pros and cons of philanthropy, and much more.
Nwamaka Agbo is the CEO of the Kataly Foundation. With a background in community organizing, electoral campaigns, policy and advocacy work on racial, social and environmental justice issues, she is deeply committed to supporting projects that build resilient, healthy and self-determined communities rooted in shared prosperity. Prior to joining Kataly, Nwamaka built an independent consulting practice guided by her framework on Restorative Economics. Learn more about Nwamaka and Restorative Economics at nwamakaagbo.com.
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Financial disruptor Jessica Norwood talks with Konda Mason about her practice of friends and family capital, and how to bring the concept of right relationship into the world of finance.
Jessica Norwood is the Founder of the Runway Project, which uses entrepreneurship as a strategy to close the wealth gap in African American communities by providing pre-seed, friends and family capital, or what Jessica calls "Believe in You Money," to fund people of color-led companies. Jessica is a financial activist and social entrepreneur who speaks worldwide on the intersection of culture and investing, emerging leadership, community investing and African American wealth creation. Learn more about her at jessicanorwood.com.
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Neuroscientist, Dr. SarĂĄ King joins Konda to discuss embodying liberation through overcoming prejudice, the connection between mental health and systemic racism, and the science behind how social justice is synonymous with wellbeing.
Dr. SarĂĄ Yafah King is a UCLA-trained neuroscientist, political and learning scientist, social-entrepreneur, public speaker, and yoga and mindfulness meditation instructor. She has over 20 years of experience as a research scientist, and specializes in the study of the relationship between mindfulness, complementary alternative medicine, and social justice. She is the scientific consultant for Peace in Schools, a dharma teacher with Presence Collective, a Post Doctoral Fellow in Neurology, and the founder of MindHeart Consulting, a scientific consultancy offering up seminars, research and development, and trauma healing circles based on the framework she developed called the 'Science of Social Justice' - a way of both studying (researching), teaching (facilitating), and healing individuals and communities from the dis-ease of othering and systemic oppression. For more on SarĂĄ's offerings, please visit mindheartconsulting.com and follow her at @mindheartcollective.
VoyageLA Magazine recently put out a timely and insightful article showcasing Dr. SarĂĄ King and her ongoing work on The Science of Social Justice.
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Strategist, designer, writer, & system-nudger, Micah Daigle, joins Konda to explore reimagining our systems around what makes us come alive.
Micah is a designer and movement builder working to redesign our world to work for everyone. He started his career advocating against the racist war on drugs as the executive director of Students For a Sensible Drug Policy, before shifting from working against the existing system, to creating better systems. As a designer, heâs worked on software tools like Asana and Hackpad, helping millions of people collaborate. As a campaigner, Micah crowdfund projects like Impact Hub Oakland, and as a strategist, heâs helped dozens of founder teams clarify their purpose, story and voice. Micah is part of an emerging movement to redesign the foundations of our society, such as the economy or government, and is currently focused on forming land based collectives to experiment with new and ancient ways of living together. For more info, visit micahdaigle.com
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Cultural strategist Anasa Troutman joins Konda Mason for a conversation around intentional communities, white supremacy, and what freedom really looks like.
As CEO & Founder of The BIG We, Anasa Troutman works to build and execute strategies for artists and organizations that are aligned with her vision of a loving world and her belief in creativity as a pathway to personal, community, and global transformation. Best known for her work as the strategic advisor and executive producer for her longtime friend - Grammy-winning singer and songwriter India Arie. Anasa recently stepped into leadership as the first Executive Director of the historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis. Learn more about Anasa and her work at anasatroutman.com.
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Elisabeth Keller joins Konda Mason for a conversation about the intersection of land, race, money, and spirit, which is the story of America itself.
Elisabeth Keller is the President of Inglewood Farm in Alexandria, Louisiana. Inglewood is on land that was once a cotton plantation and has its farming roots in the slaveholding economy. As President of Inglewood, Elisabeth is committed to a path of healing and repair on the farm. This began with the transition 8 years ago to organic and regenerative farming practices. Along with the work of healing the land, Elisabeth has committed to the deeper, more difficult work of healing through racial equity and reparations. This commitment lies at the heart of the partnership she has made with Konda Mason and Jubilee Justice. Read more about Elisabeth and her work at Inglewood Farm.
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Jakada Imani and Konda explore the intersection of spirituality and social justice in relation to the ongoing movement for racial justice.
Jakada Imani is a spiritually rooted coach and trainer with 30 yearsâ experience working for racial, social and economic justice. He is the Chair of the Board of OneLife Institute, which serves at the intersection of spirituality and social action. Over the last three decades, Jakada has worked for organizations and or supported movements working on campaigning to close youth prisons, fight for workersâ rights, tenant organizing and green jobs. In 2013 he received a ChangeMaker Fellowship from Pacific School of Religion, where he served for two years leading The Ignite Institute, a center for spiritual and social transformation. Current Rev. Jakada serves as the Board President of Greenpeace U.S. You can find more information about Jakada at OneLife Institute and LinkedIn
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Civil rights attorney Fania Davis shares a conversation with Konda Mason around how we can heal the deepest of wounds with the loving power of restorative justice.
Fania Davis is a leading national voice on restorative justice. She is an author, educator, restorative justice practitioner and a long-time social justice activist and civil rights trial attorney with a PhD in Indigenous Knowledge. Coming of age in Birmingham, Alabama during the social ferment of the civil rights era, the murder of two close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing crystallized within Fania a passionate commitment to social transformation.
Studying with indigenous healers, particularly in Africa, catalyzed Faniaâs search for a healing justice, ultimately leading her to goal of bringing restorative justice to Oakland, California. Founding Director of Restorative Justice of Oakland Youth, her numerous honors include the Ubuntu award for service to humanity, the Dennis Maloney Award for excellence in Youth Restorative Justice, the Tikkun award, the Ella Baker Jo Baker Award, the Bioneersâ Changemaker Award.
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