Meet Kamilah!
Kamilah’s Experience
29
Years of contemplative leadership
289
Partners
5
Continents where she’s worked using contemplative practices
22
Countries where she’s worked using contemplative practices
Majied Contemplative Consulting works to strengthen schools, businesses, social justice groups, mental health agencies, and other organizations by using meditative practices to allow participants to pause, notice and shift oppressive, limiting psychological, social and institutional dynamics.
Renowned leadership in contemplative practices
Dr. Kamilah Majied is a contemplative inclusivity and equity consultant, mental health therapist, clinical educator, researcher, and internationally engaged consultant on building inclusivity and equity using meditative practices. After 15 years of teaching at Howard University, Dr. Majied joined the faculty at California State University, Monterey Bay as Professor of Social Work. She serves as the Diversity and Inclusivity Consultant for the Contemplative Coping During COVID-19 Research Project at the University of California Davis Center for Mind and Brain. She teaches clinical practice to graduate students employing psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness-based, and artistic approaches to well-being, and authored a chapter in the second edition of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy, “Contemplative Practices for Assessing and Eliminating Racism in Psychotherapy.” She also teaches research methods, social and organizational policy analysis, and community organizing through a social justice lens. Kamilah gave opening remarks at the first White House Conference of Buddhist Leaders on Climate Change and Racial Justice, where she also facilitated a dialogue on ending racism amongst the internationally represented Buddhist leadership. She is the author of the forthcoming book Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living (Sounds True, 2024).
Learn about Kamilah’s approach.
Dr. Majied employs diverse contemplative practices to bring people to the interior spaciousness, social emotional development and wellness.
Kamilah in Community with Beloved Teachers, Leaders, and Friends
Kamilah at a school in Nubia, Egypt
Kamilah with Angela Davis at the Gathering of Buddhist Teachers of African Descent
Kamilah with Alice Walker at the National Women's Studies Association, 2018
Kamilah with Dr. Clifford Saron (UC Davis Center for Mind & Brain)
Kamilah with Dr. Michael Yellow Bird at the 2023 ISCR Conference
At the Mind & Life Institute's 2018 Summer Research Institute
Kamilah with Juan Santoyo and Dr. Dominique Malebranche at the MLI Summer Research Institute
Kamilah with Mirabai Bush at Smith College
Kamilah and Katja Hahn d'Errico at UMass Amherst
Lectures & Presentations
Speaking at HRC, Washington, D.C.
Presenting on an invited panel at the inaugural (2023) conference of the International Society for Contemplative Research, UC San Diego
Kamilah with students at the University of Washington
Kamilah delivers a keynote at the 2018 Summer Session on Contemplative Practices in Higher Education, Smith College
Kamilah with students after her lecture at Soka University, Japan
With fellow panelists at the 2023 ISCR Conference, UC San Diego
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