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.

Full show notes and resources (podcast.mindandlife.org/brooke-lavelle)