SUMMIT SESSIONS

Oscar Medina and Rosa Gonzalez

Creating Communities of Practice and Action

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What You'll Learn

  • Explore the personal and social value of engaging actively in community, and recognize the ways in which you are already connected

  • Discover how to get involved in communities that support your goals and values, and how mindful practice with others can support your personal practice

  • Follow along in a practice to strengthen your connection to others and expand your awareness to include those around you

About Oscar Medina

Oscar Paul Medina is a meditation educator, and transformative leader who is integrating the fields of consciousness and healing with community and restorative justice work. His personal battles with trauma and addiction led him to the path of meditation, somatic healing and ancestral indigenous wisdom. As a Dalai Lama Fellow and co-founder of Mindful Garden Collective, he created a community wellness garden and environmental restoration project centered around meditation, yoga, ecology, and growing organic food for Oakland families in need. At Mind Body Awareness Project, he has been leading mindfulness and healing circles with inner-city youth, incarcerated populations, along with educators and community workers, since 2014. Currently, he is co-leading a project that is providing mindfulness and trauma resilience training to Alameda County Sherff's Department deputies, clinical staff, and incarcerated populations at Santa Rita Jail. He is a 2020 Culture of Health Fellow, and is building a movement to empower Latinx communities and leaders on the leading edge science of mindfulness, trauma-resilience, well-being and wisdom.

About Rosa Gonzalez

Rosa González is dedicated to fundamental shifts towards health & balance at all levels from the personal to the structural. She teaches yoga and breathing meditation through the International Association for Human Values and TLEX (Transformational Leadership for Excellence). She is a senior fellow at the Movement Strategy Center and the founder of Facilitating Power, a consultancy designed to cultivate, through deep partnership, the practice & pedagogy of a living democracy. She is currently working on her first book, titled: SEED, HARVEST, WEAVE Facilitative Leadership for a Living Democracy.

Oscar and Rosa will be leading a course, produced by Mindful, called How To Meditate: A culturally rooted approach to Mindfulness for Latino/x communities, or Como Meditar: La Practica de Plena Conciencia desde la perspectiva cultural Latina/x. If you would like to be in touch with them about their work, you can reach them at oscarpaulmedina1@gmail.com and rosa@facilitatingpower.com.

About Kaleigh Isaacs

Kaleigh Isaacs is the Founder of The Awake Network. She’s an inspired leader, remarkable collaborator, and spontaneous dancer. She sees connections everywhere, and it was this vision on which The Awake Network was founded. That we are stronger together is a motto that goes without saying for her.


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