What would we do for the healing of the world if we were not afraid? How are feelings of powerlessness hindering our climate and racial justice work? What helps us feel our power to make a difference?
Feelings of powerlessness are a pervasive and often unnamed obstacle to organizing to create the world we wish to live in. Based on the Beloved Community Circles model, this EcoDharma Exploration co-presented by John Bell and Coryna Ogunseitan will
- Investigate ways we learn to feel powerless
- Introduce practices to help heal those feelings
- Explore an emerging collective action network to better fulfill our aspiration to bring healing and justice to a suffering world.
We’ll gather live over Zoom on September 22, 2024, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM US Eastern / 8:30 to 10:30 AM US Pacific / 5:30 to 7:30 PM CET. If you can’t make it to the gathering, a recording will be available within a week of the live event.
Registration for this exploration is open and we encourage you to register early. We welcome your contributions to support this donation-based program, the featured guest, and One Earth Sangha. We can’t do this without you!
John Bell, True Wonderful Wisdom, (pronouns he/him) is a Plum Village Buddhist Dharma teacher who lives near Boston, MA, USA. He is a founding staff member and former vice president of YouthBuild USA, an international non-profit that provides learning, earning, and leadership opportunities to young people from low-income backgrounds. He is an author, lifelong social justice activist, international trainer facilitator, father and grandfather. He is the author of YouthBuild’s North Star, and Unbroken Wholeness: Six Pathways to the Beloved Community: Integrating Social Justice, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Practice.
Coryna Ogunseitan (they/them and she/her) is the program manager of Beloved Community Circles, where she focuses on developing and implementing programming to support the enormously diverse group of people who comprise new and existing Circles. Coryna is also a PhD researcher in the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Program in Medical Anthropology, where their research focuses on the impacts of climate change on mental health and how climate change reshapes affective relationships with the natural world.
