Brooke Lavelle - Courage in Community

Published: March 25, 2022, 8:29 a.m.

b'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'