Oscar Medina & Rosa Gonzalez – Creating Communities of Practice and Action

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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12 Comments

Soniya Gurung March 25, 2020 at 2:26 am

Grateful 🙏!
Suzette Misrachi March 23, 2020 at 5:51 am

Kaleigh Isaacs, you are such a great facilitator, so gentle yet so sharp. Thank you for the great questions you posed to these presenters.
Suzette Misrachi March 23, 2020 at 5:47 am

Transmission is real. I live in Melbourne, Australia and this is one of those rare opportunities where I felt someone’s presence, someone on video from so many miles away… Oscar, you are very powerful and you demonstrate that via the exact opposite to how society tends to view masculinity. You did this via your vulnerabilities. That is so special.
At one point, Oscar mentioned in the context of this discussion on mindfullness that creating communities of practice and action is important “especially if [prisoners have] had a lot of trauma”. This is very true. But which prisoner has had no trauma?
A need to belong in a positive way can never be overestimated. I did some research entitled: “Lives unseen: unacknowledged trauma of non-disordered, competent Adult Children Of Parents with a Severe Mental Illness”. My work led me to being invited to write some short articles on trauma and grief for mental health practitioners which I then freely offer to the general public. Apparently, it’s the only research that has addressed this population group. If people are interested, they just need to Google my name.
I loved listening to Rosa and Oscar. I wish I lived next door to them!
Thank you so much… Suzette Misrachi
Suzette Misrachi March 23, 2020 at 5:45 am

Transmission is real. I live in Melbourne, Australia and this is one of those rare opportunities where I felt someone’s presence, someone on video from so many miles away… Oscar, you are very powerful and you demonstrate that via the exact opposite to how society tends to view masculinity. You did this via your vulnerabilities. That is so special.
At one point, Oscar mentioned in the context of this discussion on mindfullness that creating communities of practice and action is important “especially if [prisoners have] had a lot of trauma”. This is very true. But which prisoner has had no trauma?
A need to belong in a positive way can never be overestimated. I did some research entitled: “Lives unseen: unacknowledged trauma of non-disordered, competent Adult Children Of Parents with a Severe Mental Illness” (see: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/37852). My work led me to being invited to write some short articles on trauma and grief for mental health practitioners which I then freely offer to the general public (https://medium.com/@suzette.misrachi). Apparently, it’s the only research that has addressed this population group. I hope these resources are of use to Oscar, Rosa and to others.
I loved listening to Rosa and Oscar. I wish I lived next door to them!
Thank you so much… Suzette Misrachi
Angela March 22, 2020 at 7:57 pm

Inspiring. Really appreciated how both of you build bridges to community. Gracias mil or traernos ese mensaje.
Angela March 22, 2020 at 7:56 pm

Inspiring. Really appreciated how both of you build bridges to community. Thank you.
John D MacKinnon March 22, 2020 at 7:02 pm

This mindful summit has been very helpful
Esperanza Suarez March 22, 2020 at 3:31 pm

Gracias mil, Rosa y Oscar, me encanta su trabajo interior y su influencia en la comunidad! Se nota una alegría en sus seres por el bienestar que están compartiendo.
Patrick March 22, 2020 at 3:02 pm

Inspiring stuff !

So interesting to hear about how you have -and are planning to – weave mindfulness into your communities and cultures, building on what’s already there, helping people who have struggled with real tough realities to engage with compassion and mindfulness and transform their lives – way to go!

I look forward to hearing more as your work progresses
Kari Dul March 22, 2020 at 2:25 pm

Inspiring, both of you.
Jo March 22, 2020 at 6:37 am

Thanks for the amazing insights.

I was impressed and touched by the insights and outreach to the vulnerable, including those who are incarcerated.

Powerful words in unsettling times.
John Shearer March 21, 2020 at 6:33 pm

Great talk! It is always my hope that the people who are touched by my ripple, then create a ripple of their own. That way, we can change the world, one person at a time! 👍🙏 👌😍✌ http://www.mindfullyMAD.org