Tuesday, April 27, 2027

7:00 pm - 8:15 pm ET

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Open to all. 

Drawing on Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Five Mindfulness Trainings, dharma teachers Valerie Brown and Marisela B. Gomez explore how Buddhist ethics can support personal healing and collective liberation. Through reflections on reverence for life, true happiness, true love, loving speech and deep listening, and nourishment and healing, they address the lived realities of racial and social injustice. Joined by the voices of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ practitioners, the book offers an invitation to put compassion, belonging, and ethical action into practice each day.

Meet the Authors

Valerie Brown

Valerie Brown is a dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition, a Quaker, and a former lawyer-lobbyist. She is a writer, facilitator, and leadership coach whose work brings together mindfulness, compassion, and social equity. She is also co-author, with Marisela B. Gomez and Kaira Jewel Lingo, of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation, which explores ancestral healing, self-care, and social justice through conversations among three friends and dharma teachers.

Marisela B. Gomez

Marisela Gomez is a mindfulness practitioner (ordained in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing), public health activist, and physician. Of-Afro-Latina ancestry, she lives in Baltimore involved in social justice activism and community building/research. Author of Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore, and numerous book chapters, popular and scholarly publications. She blogs at HuffPost and marsielabgomez.com on the intersection of wisdom, justice, and mindfulness.

More Information

  • Registration Deadline

    Registration for this program closes on April 27, 2027.

  • Program Recordings

    This program will be recorded and made available for on-demand viewing after the live sessions. On-demand videos will be available to registered participants only for 90 days.

  • About the Book

    Love Is Liberation
    Five Contemplations for Daily Ethical Living
    By Valerie Brown and Marisela B. Gomez
    Harper Collins Publishers
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