Course Details

What is mindfulness?  How does it relate to work towards justice?  How does compassion fit in? In this course, we will engage mindfulness and compassion as frameworks and a set of tools towards equity and justice for all.  The course aims to : (1) cultivate awareness about inequities and their effects, (2) increase  knowledge of mindfulness, compassion and equity frameworks and the possibilities their intersections produce, (3) foster compassion for our own and one  another’s experiences of inequity and (4) provide tools and increased capacity for engaging in mindful, compassionate dialogue about historical and contemporary inequities and movement towards change.  We come at this work from an intersectional perspective, with a focus on race as it interacts with other types of difference and inequality.  The course would also offer students  tools for expanding equity work in their own diverse institutional environments and communities. Jointly listed with EDUC 200 C.