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