Brooke Lavelle - Courage in Community
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:\nher trajectory of work from mindfulness to compassion to relational practice to social justice;\nrelationality as the starting point for contemplative growth;\nCourage of Care, and the CourageRISE framework;\nroutes to understanding oppressive systems;\nthe body as culture;\nthe skills needed to build multicultural community;\napplications in climate work;\nthe non-dual frame as an antidote to othering;\nand love as an organizing principle.\nFull show notes and resources