Interconnected: Being Mindful & White
 in a Multicultural World


Interconnected

A class series for white people with Kitsy Schoen
 assisted by Marcus Liefert


4 Tuesdays and 1-day Saturday Retreat
April 10, 17, 24, and May 1: 6:30-9:00pm
April 28: 10am - 5pm

*We ask participants to commit to and attend all sessions.

East Bay Meditation Center
2147 Broadway,  Oakland, CA 94612
(Near 19th Street BART)
About this event
Mindfulness practices are incomplete if they don't include the investigation of social injustices and the ways we inadvertently perpetuate the system in our unexamined behaviors and beliefs.  Social justice and anti-racism efforts can cause harm if they don't include the wisdom and understanding that comes from mindfulness and compassion practices.

In this class series we will support each other in addressing our own racism and white privilege using both multicultural theories and tools along with Buddhist teachings and practices.

Registration is Required and Space is Limited 

 

To register for this retreat, please click here, or copy & paste the following link into your browser: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CVRXR5Q 

 

If the link does not work, reply to admin@eastbaymeditation.org with your full name, requesting help registering for the "Being Mindful and White in a Multicultural World" event. 

 

Dana, or Generous Giving

There is no registration fee for attending this event, nor most EBMC events. However, EBMC is not independently funded. The Center and the teachers will be sustained only by your voluntary donations (the practice of generous giving, or "dana"). Please donate generously, in proportion to your ability:

  • Either online (you will be offered an opportunity at the end of the online registration process),
  • Or at the event, in the two baskets at EBMC, one for the Center, the second for the Teachers. 
Thank you for your generosity.  Giving together, our unique, diverse Center will grow and thrive!
About the teachers 

Kitsy3.jpgKitsy Schoen, LCSW, is on the Leadership Sangha and a Core Teacher at EBMC.  She has thirty years of experience facilitating groups and classes. Kitsy is passionate about exploring the intersection of mindfulness and multicultural awareness. Marcus Leifert


Marcus Liefert is a candidate for Unitarian Universalist ministry, and has explored mindfulness practices from many traditions. Marcus has worked with individuals and groups on issues of whiteness and racism for the past eight years. 
 

WheelchairLogoLivelyEBMC.jpgIn order to protect the health of community members with environmental illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including "natural" fragrances) or clothes laundered in fragranced products to EBMC.