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:

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.

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