For Black, Indigenous & People of Color to Grow Together

Cultivating Inner Strength: An Insight Dialogue Program For People of Color with Tuere Sala 

January 24 – February 28  

Sundays & Tuesdays 

6-week course for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) at all levels of experience with Insight Dialogue (relational Dharma rooted in Vipassana tradition)

New BIPOC Zen Group Based in Seattle

Sundays, 9 – 10 am PT 

Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Temple offers a weekly BIPOC sitting group (limited to BIPOC individuals).

The group is led by Rev. Seifu (Anil) Singh-Molares, a priest-in-training (Unsui) at Chobo-Ji. The format includes seated meditation (Zazen), along with an opportunity at each session to  briefly engage with issues of race and privilege as they relate to Zen practice. No experience is required or assumed. 

See the Chobo-Ji website Events page for the Zoom link.  

Please contact Seifu at  if you have any questions. 

For Aspiring Anti-Racist White People to Grow Together

Unpacking Whiteness 

January 21 – February 25    

Thursday 4 – 6 pm PT   

6-week mindfulness-based series to support white folks waking up to systemic racism in ourselves and our world.  Facilitated by Anna-Brown Griswold & Kimber Simpkins.

Register at Seattle Mindfulness Center.

Refuge in Sangha: An Introduction to Insight Dialogue for LGBTQIA+ 

March 2 – April 20 

Tuesdays 3:30 – 6:30 pm PT  

with Nicola Redfern and Rachel Hammerman  

8-week course for Q-identified people at all levels of experience with Insight Dialogue.

Cultural Healing, Restoring Kinship

March 7 – May 10  

A Dharma-based book study of Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies.

Two-month multi-faceted course designed toward healing individual and collective racial trauma

Taught by Kaira Jewel Lingo, HaiAn and other Dharma leaders in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh