By Carolyn Gregoire — 2020
As Western medicine brings psychedelics into mainstream use, a growing movement is innovating new business models grounded in reciprocity and inclusion.
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“Connecting with the sacredness within, the sacredness of your ancestors and your ways,” is how we heal from the pain and trauma of racism, says healer, educator and co-founder of the National Compadres Network, Jerry Tello.
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How do mindfulness and compassion practices support us in the work of educating for not merely radical but revolutionary social change? In this presentation, Professor Magee identifies research and practices that support the communion of inner work, interpersonal work, and systemic change.
Watch the conversation between SIYLI's CEO Rich Fernandez and Board President Rhonda Magee, author of "The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness.
Mindfulness is often seen as something only useful or needed among certain populations, but the practice has no real barriers, and all populations can benefit.
Our fear management strategies - versions of fight/flight - contract our body and mind, and separate us from others. As we learn to pause and contact the bodily fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of being enlarges. We rediscover our belonging to presence, love and life.
Transforming Justice, Lawyers, and the Practice of Law is a forthcoming anthology compiled by the editor of The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).
White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death.
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In a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healing is an ongoing process.