Online: Socially Engaged Buddhist Approaches to Racism
with Patrisse Cullors, Reggie Hubbard, Barbara Barnes and Katya de Kadt
Thursday, October 26th, 2023 | 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
In this evening workshop, which is part of a new 4-week series on Secular and Socially Engaged Buddhism, we’ll explore how Buddhists – both white people and people of color – can respond to the structural roots of racism and the ways in which racism is internalized. We’ll discuss how, through meditation practices and political movements, we can contribute to the creation of a multiracial society based on mindfulness, compassion, and justice.
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Teacher(s)
Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author, educator, artist, and abolitionist from Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been featured at The Broad, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, LTD Gallery, Crystal Bridges Museum, Second Home West Hollywood, The Fowler Museum, Frieze LA, The Hammer Museum, Vashon Center for the Arts, Joe’s Pub, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, and a host of theaters, galleries, and museums across the globe.
Cullors launched a ground-breaking Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program at Prescott College where she served as the Founding Director for two years. She is the co-founder of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart and has been on the frontlines of abolitionist movement building with Black Lives Matter, Justice LA, Dignity and Power Now and Reform LA jails. Her current work and practice is focusing on “Abolitionist Aesthetics,” a term she has advanced and popularized to help challenge artists and cultural workers to aestheticize abolition. Patrisse is also the founder of The Center For Art and Abolition- a trailblazing nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering abolitionist artists and leveraging the transformative power of art to catalyze social change.
Patrisse has won numerous awards for her art and activism. In September 2021, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Patrisse’s appointment to serve as one of three Second District Arts Commissioners. Patrisse’s mission is to invite all of us to grow towards abolition through intergenerational healing work that centers love, collective care, and art.
Reggie Hubbard
Reggie Hubbard is the founder/chief serving officer of Active Peace Yoga. His yoga and meditation practice was born of curiosity and forged while seeking to alchemize and process extreme professional adversity. Through discipline, focus, dedication to cultivating compassion and serving others, his practice has become a lesson in witnessing the miracles that exist in commitment to personal peace of mind and wellbeing in the present moment.
Reggie shares his practice in service to helping people navigate this thing called life with more creativity, authenticity, peace and ease. He has extensively studied with leading teachers in yogic, meditative and dharmic disciplines while also remembering that the best teacher is an eternal student. He is a graduate of the MMTCP (Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program) 2023 cohort and is always seeking new ways of sharing ancient wisdom to modern audiences.
Through Active Peace Yoga, he offers asana and meditation classes to help others nurture peace of mind, creativity, equanimity in spirit and physical health – helping people nurture well-being as foundational, rather than an afterthought. Reggie has taught Members of Congress, Congressional Staff, major labor unions, leading progressive organizations and individuals from all walks of life – simple tools for managing stress and bringing peace to mind, body and spirit. Active Peace also offers strategic guidance on creating healthier cultures and organizational norms rooted in wellbeing, compassion and results.
Reggie’s life work sits at the intersection of bringing more peace and balance to activists; guiding the wellness community toward being more engaged, concerned citizens; and, enhancing the well-being of all walks of life. Achieving this balance is how we catalyze transformative change in our society, which we are desperately in need of at this moment. He also is passionate about justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI); normalizing grief and loss; and, sharing healing rituals with marginalized communities to enhance our collective well-being.
In addition to his teaching practice, Reggie has held many senior strategic and logistical roles across a variety of fields, ranging from global marketing, digital and community organizing, government relations, international education to Presidential campaigning. He is a featured speaker on politics, strategy, wellbeing, social justice, and civic engagement for leading publications, podcasts and platforms including: Be Here Now Network, The Hill, Mind and Life Institute, Sedona Yoga Festival, SoundsTrue Foundation, Upaya Zen Center, Wanderlust, the Wellbeing Project, Yoga Alliance, Yoga International and Yoga Journal.
He received a B.A. in philosophy from Yale University and an MBA in international strategy from the Vlerick Business School in Belgium.
You can find out more at www.activepeaceyoga.com.
Barbara Barnes
Barbara Barnes is white, cisgender, older woman of bourgeois, Christian, New England heritage. She is an educator who has taught in Kenya and Mozambique and worked with teachers and students in the New York City schools on resolving conflicts nonviolently. She was on the faculty at Brooklyn College in the School of Education. Barbara became a secular Buddhist practitioner after years of political activism in peace education and racial and economic justice work, using socialist, feminist, and Marxist frames.
Katya de Kadt
Katya de Kadt has been an antiracist activist for the past 60 years. She was a Theravada practitioner and a member of a Theravada sangha in New York City for 20 years before joining the Secular Buddhist Network. She believes that the end of suffering is not only a task for individuals, either on or off the cushion, but also requires active participation in dismantling systems of oppression like racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia and ableism.