Belonging - Symposium - July 27th, Birkbeck College

Belonging - Symposium - July 27th, Birkbeck College
Rhonda Magee and Cathy-Mae Karelse talk about the importance of the symposium in bringing people together and making them aware of their own sense of belonging and their heart print. They speak about the nature of interconnectedness and the ripple effect of all of our actions, positive and negative, big and small. And their joint message that we all have within us great power to affect change, often small, that can make a huge difference to the wider community.
Cathy-Mae Karelse- PhD is an independent specialist with years of experience in deep systems change and decolonisation. As a thought leader in belonging and thriving, she designs and delivers customised change-making strategies and programmes to shepherd meaningful transformation. Cathy-Mae has worked with corporates, policy institutes, communities, and global programmes around policies and strategies that generate embodied leadership, justice, and freedom. As author of Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry, she advocates for global South, Indigenous, queer leadership in emergent worldmaking. In addition to public speaking, she is an educator, coach, and change-maker.
Ronda Magee is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, where she has taught Torts, Insurance Law, Race in American Legal History, and a course she co-created called Contemplative Lawyering. She is the author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness (Penguin RandomHouse TarcherPerigee: 2019, which broke new ground on publication as the first book of its kind to integrate mindfulness principles and practices thoroughly into the conversation on addressing race and racism in diverse settings and communities, and helping us heal from the trauma that the legacies of racism cause. She accepted authorization as a spiritual guide and teacher in the Zen lineage, Hoshi Myozen Magee also draws on her training as a mindfulness teacher trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and her study and co-teaching with Bhikkhu Analayo, a Buddhist Monk in the Theravadan tradition, and renown scholar of early Buddhism. Hoshi Magee is a founding advisor of the Mindfulness in Law Society, and an internationally recognized mindfulness teacher and Keynote speaker. Her current writing and teaching explore how culturally specific practices - including Black cultural spirituality and the quality of soulfulness -- may intersect with and strengthen mindfulness.

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