Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (mcdn.podbean.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
In this episode, Wendy speaks with Buddhist scholar, contemplative teacher, and social activist Brooke Lavelle. Brooke is the co-founder and president of Courage of Care, an organization that seeks to build transformational practice communities rooted in compassion, healing, and counter-oppressive frameworks. This conversation covers many topics, including:
- her trajectory of work from mindfulness to compassion to relational practice to social justice;
- relationality as the starting point for contemplative growth;
- Courage of Care, and the CourageRISE framework;
- routes to understanding oppressive systems;
- the body as culture;
- the skills needed to build multicultural community;
- applications in climate work;
- the non-dual frame as an antidote to othering;
- and love as an organizing principle.