This is posted from the Mindfulness and Social Change Network in the UK. I only have as much information as you, from below.
Luke WrefordMindfulness teacher and researcher
has invited you to an event.Disrupting White Mindfulness: book talk and discussion with the authorThu Jun 01, 2023 07:00PM – 08:30PM EDT BSThttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88586277577Will you be attending?YesNoMaybe
We’re delighted that network member Cathy-Mae Karelse will be joining us for this session soon after the publication of her new book Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry. Cathy-Mae will present key ideas and findings of the book with plenty of time for Q&As, reflection and discussion.
The session will start at 7pm BST (UK time); the Zoom room will be open from 6.50 so please join in good time for a prompt start. Please RSVP if you would like to attend – we hope to see you there!
Mindfulness is now established in the West and is found everywhere from boardrooms and bedrooms to schools, prisons, and hospitals. Yet popular mindfulness is infused in whiteness and late capitalism. This book reveals how its easy fit in Western society replicates existing social norms and dominant narratives: an essentially White Mindfulness reflects racialised institutional profiles and a largely White, middle-class audience.
Taking a critical look at this lucrative industry, Disrupting White Mindfulness explores the influences of neoliberalism and postracialism, and the invisible force of whiteness that marginalises and excludes People of the Global Majority from meaningful leadership and decision-making.
Engaging decolonising approaches rooted in embodied justice, Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a path and an invitation for a radically transformed mindfulness, one which embraces solutions built on difference and on indigenous, queer, and global South perspectives.
About the author
Dr. Cathy-Mae Karelse (she/her) is a scholar-practitioner, change-maker and public speaker on issues of race, difference and belonging. She is trained in numerous transformation approaches with 20+ years of experience in deep systems change that addresses the underlying social norms and narratives that keep institutionalised discrimination in place. Her work addresses all landscapes: the inner, outer and in-between. She received a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2019.
Cathy-Mae is currently the DEI Lead at The Mindfulness Initiative. She completed her mindfulness training with the Centre for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts, and also trained with Oxford Mindfulness Centre. She has trained mindfulness teachers under the auspices of BAMBA and is currently a supervisor with the Mindfulness Network.