Mindfulness & 
Social Justice Consulting

Awareness and Compassion for Change.

One way towards social change is through compassionate awareness.  Open-hearted attention to the ways the race, gender, class, national and other systems of inequality we've experienced, inherited, and learned have shaped our understanding of ourselves and one another. Compassionate, mindful awareness can help us recognize and feel the separation, valuation, devaluation and disconnection these systems create in our lives.  In pubic and non-profit organizations, schools, businesses, and community and spiritual groups, we can engage collective awareness to better understand ourselves, each other, and our paths towards change.  

This inside-outside approach to social change draws on: my embodied explorations of living in a body marked white within global systems of racialization; direct-service work in non-profit social justice organizations; a Masters in Public Affairs focused on race and gender in public policy; a PhD in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies with a focus on race, gender and immigration; twelve years teaching university courses on inequity and change; mindfulness and compassion curriculum development for public health research studies; and twenty years studying, practicing and teaching mindfulness and compassion.

I lead workshops and groups for white people awakening to the realities of race in our own and others’ lives and partner with BIPOC (Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of Color) colleagues to facilitate workshops and extended engagements in mixed race settings. I also offer individual coaching focused on deepening our felt awareness of the ways systems of oppression work through our bodies and minds and finding our own way in movement towards collective liberation.