Creating compassionate communities takes more than good will-it requires a dedication to respecting cultural differences while remembering the fundamental spiritual kinship that exists between all people. Activist, counselor, and Buddhist teacher Ayo Yetunde creatively explores ways of creating kinship and community through the metaphor of Indra's Net-a universal net in which all beings reflect each other like jewels.
Ayo offers a practice path that acknowledges our deep challenges-challenges that increasingly give rise to the temptation of group violence, which she calls mobbery-while showing exactly how we can still listen, learn, and heal together. Drawing inspiration from the Black liberation tradition and from stories from various religions, Ayo recasts Indra's Net as the network in which we all have the choice, either to succumb to our impulses toward division and brutality or renew our civility and love for each other.
In her latest book Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community, Ayo shares more than 20 practices including: five commitments for healthy, nonviolent living; guided contemplation to water the seeds of your spiritual potential; "mirroring" and "twinning" other people; Tonglen (receiving and releasing); and lovingkindness meditations and affirmations.
Join Ayo and somatic and transpersonal psychotherapist Deanna Jimenez for a heartfelt conversation that is both a call and a primer for community-oriented models of well-being in our age of polarization and turmoil.
Free, suggested donation of $10.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
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Ayo offers a practice path that acknowledges our deep challenges-challenges that increasingly give rise to the temptation of group violence, which she calls mobbery-while showing exactly how we can still listen, learn, and heal together. Drawing inspiration from the Black liberation tradition and from stories from various religions, Ayo recasts Indra's Net as the network in which we all have the choice, either to succumb to our impulses toward division and brutality or renew our civility and love for each other.
In her latest book Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community, Ayo shares more than 20 practices including: five commitments for healthy, nonviolent living; guided contemplation to water the seeds of your spiritual potential; "mirroring" and "twinning" other people; Tonglen (receiving and releasing); and lovingkindness meditations and affirmations.
Join Ayo and somatic and transpersonal psychotherapist Deanna Jimenez for a heartfelt conversation that is both a call and a primer for community-oriented models of well-being in our age of polarization and turmoil.
Free, suggested donation of $10.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
Creating compassionate communities takes more than good will-it requires a dedication to respecting cultural differences while remembering the fundamental spiritual kinship that exists between all people. Activist, counselor, and Buddhist teacher Ayo Yetunde creatively explores ways of creating kinship and community through the metaphor of Indra's Net-a universal net in which all beings reflect each other like jewels.
Ayo offers a practice path that acknowledges our deep challenges-challenges that increasingly give rise to the temptation of group violence, which she calls mobbery-while showing exactly how we can still listen, learn, and heal together. Drawing inspiration from the Black liberation tradition and from stories from various religions, Ayo recasts Indra's Net as the network in which we all have the choice, either to succumb to our impulses toward division and brutality or renew our civility and love for each other.
In her latest book Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community, Ayo shares more than 20 practices including: five commitments for healthy, nonviolent living; guided contemplation to water the seeds of your spiritual potential; "mirroring" and "twinning" other people; Tonglen (receiving and releasing); and lovingkindness meditations and affirmations.
Join Ayo and somatic and transpersonal psychotherapist Deanna Jimenez for a heartfelt conversation that is both a call and a primer for community-oriented models of well-being in our age of polarization and turmoil.
Free, suggested donation of $10.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
read more
Ayo offers a practice path that acknowledges our deep challenges-challenges that increasingly give rise to the temptation of group violence, which she calls mobbery-while showing exactly how we can still listen, learn, and heal together. Drawing inspiration from the Black liberation tradition and from stories from various religions, Ayo recasts Indra's Net as the network in which we all have the choice, either to succumb to our impulses toward division and brutality or renew our civility and love for each other.
In her latest book Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community, Ayo shares more than 20 practices including: five commitments for healthy, nonviolent living; guided contemplation to water the seeds of your spiritual potential; "mirroring" and "twinning" other people; Tonglen (receiving and releasing); and lovingkindness meditations and affirmations.
Join Ayo and somatic and transpersonal psychotherapist Deanna Jimenez for a heartfelt conversation that is both a call and a primer for community-oriented models of well-being in our age of polarization and turmoil.
Free, suggested donation of $10.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
show less
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