REFLECTIONS ON ENGAGED MINDFULNESS AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE

3111 Wissemann Drive,Sacramento CA 95826

12 September, 2022

Description

Rhonda V. Magee, MA, JD, is an internationally recognized educator, author, thought and practice leader, focused on integrating mindfulness into social change. She draws from Buddhist teachings, law and legal history, weaving together storytelling, poetry, analysis and practices. Rhonda Magee inspires us to look deeply inside ourselves and to change how we think, act and live together in a conflicted world. Rhonda has dedicated her life to healing and teaching that inspire personal, interpersonal and collective transformation. Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco since 2004, her teachings support compassionate conflict engagement and management, holistic problem-solving to alleviate suffering, presence-based leadership and humanizing approaches to education. A trained mindfulness teacher, who has studied with a range of wisdom teachers and institutions, She demonstrates the merit of embodied meditation allied with the disciplines of study and community engagement. A Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, she is a guest teacher and has held senior leadership positions with several international mindfulness organizations. Author of numerous articles and book chapters, her first book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through Mindfulness, was published in 2019. This event is co-sponsored with BIPOC Sangha-Sacramento. To join a POC meeting with Rhonda on September 11th at 4:15 pm contact the organizer at: [email protected] To join in person with the speaker appearing on zoom visit us at: Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wisseman Drive. Sacramento, CA 958 or On Zoom:: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82008151977