resources on mindfulness & equity

Resources from Power to Be

• Awakening to Implicit Bias, Mindful Schools Mindful Summer
• Breaking it Down: Mindfulness for Social Change, Elephant Journal
• Interview on mindfulness in education in the Wuf Shanti blog
• ​Race-Conscious Parenting: Using Mindfulness to Challenge Bias, CW Journal​​

Emerging Research on Mindfulness & Equity

• Contemplating the Effects of Oppression: Integrating Mindfulness into Diversity Classrooms, Berila, 2014
• ​Brief Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Discrimination, Lueke & Gibson, 2016
• Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us Vs. Them, Choudhury, 2015
• Mindfulness and Complex Identities in Equity Training: A Pilot Study, Sanchez-Flores, 2017
• Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Implicit Age and Race Bias: The Role of Reduced Automaticity of Responding, Lueke & Gibson, 2014
• Mindful Practice for Social Justice: A Guide for Educators and Professional Learning Communities, Rios, 2019
• The Way of Color Insight: Understanding Race & Law Effectively Through Mindfulness-Based Color-Insight Practices, Magee, 2015

Other Resources

• Awaken App: Meditations for Social Justice ​
• Beyond McMindfulness, HuffPost​
• Disrupting Systemic Whiteness in the Mindfulness Movement, Mindful​
• Fear Less, Love More, Mindful 
• ​How Mindfulness Can Defeat Racial Bias, Greater Good 
• How to Train Your Brain to See Beyond Us Versus Them, On Being
• Integrating Mindfulness Into Social Justice Education..., Decolonizing Yoga
• Mindfulness & Social Justice, Garrison Institute
• Mindfulness & Social Justice, The Centre for Mindfulness Studies
• Mindful of Race, Ruth King​
• Mindfulness Mitigates Biases You May Not Know You Have, HBR
• Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, & Liberation (website, book) 
• Raising Race Conscious Children (blog)
• Revolutionary Mindfulness (video), Rhonda Magee
• The Hole in Racial Justice: A Love Letter, Shakil Choudhury
• The Inner Work of Racial Justice, Rhonda Magee (release date Sept. 2019)
• Three Ways Mindfulness Can Make You Less Biased, Greater Good
• You Can't Be An Activist Without Some Type of Mindfulness Practice, Vice

Power to Be will be at the
Educating Mindfully Conference in Feb. 2020 presenting the following workshops:

"Mindfulness Practices for Exploring
Racial Identity and Systemic Whiteness"
and
"Mindfulness & Social Identity:
Practices for Challenging Implicit Bias"

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past event highlights

Using Mindfulness to Challenge Bias
February 28, 2019 - Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully Conference, St. Charles, IL

Doing Our Own Work: Using Mindfulness to ​Challenge Bias
January 29, 2019 - A workshop for preschool educators and parents, Online International Preschool Mindfulness Summit 2019

Be the Change Series
​2017-2019 - Family event featuring books and crafts on topics of inclusion, empathy, and social justice. Co-hosted by the Ann Arbor District Library.

Mindfulness & Implicit Bias Live Sit
​​August 7, 2018 - Guided Meditation, Mindful Schools Mindful Summer Series

Mindfulness for Activists
March 9, 2018​ - EcoJustice & Activism Conference, Eastern Michigan University

Awakening Race Consciousness: Using Mindfulness to Challenge Racism
August 30, 2016 - A 3-hour workshop co-created with La'Ron Williams for the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice community.