Introducing Freedom Together Founding Steering Committee Members:
Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Satyani McPherson, Tere Abdala, and Vimalasara Mason-John
Mindfulness For Liberation: Culturally-Rooted Practices To Empower Your Community
Reconnect With Mindfulness As A Tool For Personal And Community Transformation
in this free 90-minute webinar
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Is the free webinar, Mindfulness for Liberation: Culturally-Rooted Practices to Empower Your Community, for you?
See if any of this resonates:
- You’re a teacher, advocate, social worker, or other helping professional whose commitment to serve your community is constantly being tested by endless systemic challenges; you often feel powerless and alone.
- You’ve spent years prioritising your community, but now, you’re burned out, stuck in survival mode, and struggling to create a plan that maximizes the impact of your work.
- You’re deeply affected by the current social and political landscape, and it feels like the challenges facing your community are growing faster than your ability to address them.
- You’re looking for a way to connect with like-minded changemakers who understand your experiences and can provide the collaboration and support you need to thrive.
- You feel isolated in your work, unsure of how to take your efforts to the next level, and are searching for proven tools to reignite your passion and deliver lasting change.
If any of this sounds like you, then you’re in the right place.
By the end of this free webinar, you’ll learn about a powerful new program that teaches practical mindfulness tools to reduce your burnout, improve the quality of your work, and further empower the people you serve.
Ready to reclaim the wisdom of mindfulness — for yourself and your community?
join this FREE webinar To Take The First Step To:
- Reconnect with mindfulness as a tool for action. Explore how mindfulness and contemplative practices can drive both personal and community change, helping you turn inner calm into meaningful action.
- Understand the role of trauma in BIPOC communities. Gain insights into the cycles of historic trauma and how social institutions perpetuate them, while learning how to address these challenges through trauma-informed practices.
- Bridge personal practice and collective action. Develop tools to connect your individual mindfulness practice to actionable steps that create lasting change in your community.
- Recognize the inherent wisdom in your community. Explore ways to tap into the deep, existing knowledge within BIPOC communities, empowering them to take collective action for liberation.
- Leverage ancient wisdom for modern challenges. Discover how mindfulness has deep roots in many BIPOC traditions, and how integrating this wisdom can help reframe practices often seen through a Western lens.
- Transform your role as an educator, helping professional, and leader. Learn how to step fully into your power as a teacher, leader, or advocate and become a true agent of change in your community.
Prepare to reclaim mindfulness for healing and change. Save your free spot in the webinar now:
Meet Your Hosts
Dawa
Tarchin Phillips
Dawa Tarchin Phillips is a global leader in mindfulness education and conscious business practices. An authorized lama of the Kagyu School of Vajrayana Buddhism, he is a Co-Founder of UCSB’s Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential. He is currently President of the International Mindful Teachers Association, the world’s largest independent professional association for mindfulness teachers, mindfulness teacher training programs and professionals.
Born in New York City and growing up in a multicultural family in Europe, Dawa speaks English, German, and French fluently.
Satyani McPherson
Satyani McPherson is the Founder of Kozmique Light Meditations and an Awareness Mentor with over two decades of experience facilitating mindfulness practices. She is certified in meditation, mindful movement, and naturopathic reiki.
Born in Harlem, NY, with diverse ancestral roots spanning African, Hawaiian, English, Chinese, and Choctaw heritage, Satyani has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1985, bringing trauma-informed awareness practices to individuals, corporations, and educational institutions.
Tere
Abdala
Tere Abdala is second generation Mexican, with Lebanese family background. Tere and her family relocated to Los Angeles in the early 2000s where she. She then decided to devote herself to her family, personal growth, and study and practice of Buddhism to enhance her life and the lives of others around her.
She is currently the president of a large growing and successful multinational company in Mexico City and a firm believer of the enormous benefits of mindfulness everywhere. Her heart calls her to share the Dharma with Spanish Speaking communities.
Vimalasara Mason-John
Vimalasara Mason-John is an award-winning author and mindfulness expert with over two decades of experience in mental health and cultural resilience.
As co-founder of Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR) and author of influential works like “Detox Your Heart” and “Eight Step Recovery,” they have trained thousands globally in trauma-informed practices.
A TEDx speaker and Buddhist teacher, Vimalasara works to integrate cultural equity in mindfulness education specifically for BIPOC communities.
What Others Have Said
Dawa Tarchin Phillips is the real deal. He is an authentic and experienced master teacher, researcher and scholar, and highly accomplished in the skills of personal and organizational transformation and the principles of success. An unusually innovative and visionary thinker, Dawa can open your eyes to what it means to live your fullest human potential and lead with purpose, vision and resolve.
Jack CanfieldCEO, The Canfield Training Group
Valerie Mason-John is a human in deep recovery, Buddhist teacher, writer, performance artist…. the lasting impression is that of striking presence, a genuine person with joyful wisdom extracted from profound suffering.
Gabor MateRenowned Addiction Expert, Speaker & Author
This training challenged me to truly listen to difficult experiences with both compassion and a new perspective. It allowed me to witness the pain of others without judgement, and in turn, deepened my ability to respond with empathy. This practice has profoundly shifted how I relate to others and how I show up in challenging conversations.
Cohort 1 GraduateFreedom Together Mindfulness Teacher Training Program
About Freedom Together
A fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization
The Freedom Together Mindfulness Teacher Training Program is Designed By and For Black, Brown, Indigenous, And People of Color (BIPOC). Leading members of the BIPOC mindfulness community from the United States, Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom collaboratively founded it.
Its leadership and faculty are of African Descent, Asian, South East Asian, Indigenous and Latinx backgrounds. The program was developed by a dedicated Steering Committee composed of Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John, Margarita Loinaz, Jay Hawkins, Marisela Gomez, Renita Wong, Satyani McPherson, Bonnie Duran, Tere Abdala, Gaylon Ferguson and Uz Afzal; and supported by Singhashri Gazmuri as the program’s curriculum consultant.
Provide BIPOC Trainees with high-quality and transformative teacher training to become internationally certified mindfulness teachers who offer culturally appropriate programs within their field(s) of interest(s).s</.
Cultivate a thriving community of BIPOC mindfulness teachers who are impacting lives and advancing collective global liberation.
Student diversity: “The Program allowed for more diversity than would have been possible in a traditional in person venue. I felt fortunate to have had a faculty adviser that lived across the Atlantic, as well as the people in my group who were geographically distant to me. These interactions that were possible via zoom, nurtured my belief that there are many beings in this world all working on collective liberation.”
Faculty diversity: “I deeply valued listening to the rich variety of experienced teachers who offered their insights and experiences – not just one, but the array of different deep practitioners was phenomenal.”
Personal and professional growth: “I am proud of myself. It was an intense year and also a rewarding year. I love that the program was grounded in indigenous practices.”
What makes the Freedom Together curriculum different?
“There was an article from Arrow written by an Asian American and it was the first time I felt my experience as an Asian was being reflected in a mindfulness program. Even though mindfulness has its roots in Buddhism/Asia, the Asian experience is rarely included and this was very touching to me.”
“The expansion of what constitutes a contemplative practice, is a concept that was brought up in each module. I have always believed that culture, values, and participants individuals identities and needs, should be reflected in mindfulness program. The program highlighted the not seeing a mindfulness programs, as one size fits all. It reaffirmed my conviction that the teaching space should be constructed by participants and teacher/facilitator.”
What’s included when you sign up:
Live Webinar Zoom Access: Mindfulness for Liberation: Culturally-Rooted Practices
to Empower Your Community
A powerful 90-minute roundtable live session with Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Satyani McPherson, Tere Abdala and Vimalasara Mason-John, offering culturally rooted mindfulness tools and trauma-informed practices for BIPOC communities. Gain actionable insights to reduce burnout and create meaningful change.
Value: $199
Private Community Access
Connect with a dedicated group of educators, social workers, and activists. Share experiences, gain support, and build lasting relationships with peers focused on integrating BIPOC-centered mindfulness in their work.
Value: $599
Bonus: Live Q&A Session
Live Q&A Session with renowned leaders Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Satyani McPherson, Tere Abdala, and Vimalasara Mason-John
Value: $1599
Total Value:
$ 2397
Yours Today for: FREE
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