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Liberation Spirituality - Emergent Narratives for Our Interwoven Futures

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“You need to call from the inside the thing you want to liberate.”
- Sister Sadada Jackson.

​Key Details

  • ​​This offering is designed for:

    • ​Dharma practitioners who seek deeper clarity, courage, allyship, and engaged action.

    • ​Spiritual leaders, change-makers, activists, educators, and artists on the frontlines.

    • ​Those healing from systemic oppression through inner and outer liberation.

    • ​Anyone drawn to a sacred, strategic, collective response to this moment.

  • ​This series will meet on Saturday, 27th and Sunday 28th September from 8.30 am - 1 pm PST (UTC-7)

  • ​​​This offering is shared on a tier-based contribution scale. No one will be turned away due to financial need.

  • ​​​This course will be recorded, and the recordings will be shared with all registered participants.

​About This Course

Amidst climate collapse, injustice, and political upheaval, how do we stay rooted in presence while envisioning emergent narratives?

This mini-retreat explores what refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha may mean in our times, while engaging practices and strategies for long-haul transformation, grounded in the spirit of Bodhicitta and reparative justice.

​We’ll pause, reflect on where we are now, and practice together. We’ll also share updates from the Rhizome Fellowship’s narrative-shifting work for systems change — an initiative SMS has joined alongside 20 internationally based, multidisciplinary organizations stewarding regenerative futures.

This mini retreat connects with the Liberation Spirituality series we shared in June, and is open to everyone, whether or not you were able to participate in the June series.

Facilitators

​This series will be led by Thanissara, Andrés González, and guest teachers, including Lubna Masarwa, a Palestinian Dharma teacher residing in Jerusalem, Lisa Moore, Dharma teacher at East Bay Meditation Center, Oakland, Jilna Shah, Dharma teacher at Inward Bound Meditation UK, Kittisaro, co-founder of Sacred Mountain Sangha, and others.

Thanissara (she/her) began her Buddhist practice in the Burmese meditation tradition of U Ba Khin in 1975. She was inspired to ordain after meeting Ajahn Chah and spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun, where she was a founding member of Chithurst and Amaravati Buddhist Monasteries in the UK. She has facilitated meditation retreats internationally for the past 35 years and holds an MA in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy Practice from Middlesex University and the Karuna Institute in the UK. With Kittisaro, she co-founded Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat and helped initiate and support a number of community development projects in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. She has written several books, including two poetry books. Her last book is Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth.

Andrés González (he/they) relates to himself firstly as a spiritual being embodying, Earth-side, the multiplicity of gender, sexuality, race, & culture as a two-spirit Mestizo with primarily Yaqui, Mexican, Spanish, & Scottish ancestries. He’s also a transracial adoptee, connected to a lineage of Indigenous adoptees separated from family, land, & culture by way of the U.S. child welfare system. Andrés’ lived experience integrating these many worlds has informed his path as a practitioner of curanderismo, community dharma leader, and mental health clinician. Trained in harm reduction, healing-justice, & Indigenous psychology as a psychotherapist, he holds a masters degree in social work. He is also a graduate of East Bay Meditation Center’s two-year Spiritual Teacher & Leadership Training and the 2023-2024 Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics’ certification program in psychedelic facilitation. Andrés presently resides on the land of the Yokuts people (aka Bakersfield, CA) and lovingly traverses the ceremony of life with his adored service dog, Jr.

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