Events
(Note: event times are Pacific Time Zone unless otherwise specified)
Embodying Joy: Black Wisdom Traditions of Liberation and Healing
This workshop, designed for participants from all backgrounds, offers practices from African American wisdom traditions that support growth, healing, and liberation.
Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living: A Conversation w/Dr. K
Join us for a transformative event at The Stacks Coffeehouse in Portland, OR where Dr. Kamilah will share her perspective on living joyfully and justly.
UCSD Center for Mindfulness Book Club: Joyfully Just
Kamilah will present the Oct. 25 installment of the UCSD Center for Mindfulness Book Club! This series features engaging and insightful online events showcasing authors from the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness and esteemed peers in the field.
2024 Valerie J. Hoffman Feminisms for the 21st Century Speaker, Union College
This speaker series features feminist scholars who emphasize the links between feminist politics, the struggle for racial justice and human rights activism.
Election Protection: Community Meditation & Reflection
From Stevie Wonder, beckoning us to “Higher Ground” by singing that iconic song at the DNC, to Beyoncé’s “Freedom” call, Black music continues to be a grounding and guiding force towards justice and joy in American politics. Join sonic artist and wisdom steward Reggie Hubbard and me for an online election protection meditation and reflection session!
Living Buddha-ful Black Lives: Joy Unleashed
Kamilah will be a retreat leader at the 9th Annual Buddhist of African Descent Retreat in the Twin Cities.
Insights at the Edge: Live with Tami Simon
A Sounds True One subscriber event: Bring forth courage, transform grief, defeat injustice, and manifest joy with liberating meditation. Join mental health therapist Dr. Kamilah Majied and Tami Simon as they sit in conversation to discuss “Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living”—a book that provides unique meditation practices drawn from Black cultural traditions and Buddhism.
Thursday, July 25, at 8 pm ET (5 pm PT) for Sounds True One subscribers.
Gather for Gaza: A Dialogue on the Public Health Crisis
6 - 8 pm EDT (3 - 5 pm PDT), online, no charge.
Marisela B. Gomez, PHD, MD, MPH is a community activist, author, public health professional, and physician scientist.
Kamilah Majied, MSW, PHD is a mental health therapist, clinical educator, researcher, and contemplative inclusivity and equity consultant.
Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living
The Mindfulness Network for People of Colour presents a Book Club talk by Dr. Kamilah Majied.
Dr. Kamilah Majied at the 2024 ISCR Conference
Dr. Majied will be presenting in two sessions of the 2024 conference of the International Society for Contemplative Research: One on the Mind & Life Institute’s Global Majority Leadership & Mentorship Program, with Drs. Doris Chang, Cheryl Woods Giscombe and Felipe Mercado; and one on the Garrison Institute’s Contemplative-Based Resilience (CBR) project, with Dr. Sarina Saturn and Krista Tinari.
Enriching Our Lives with Black Contemplative Practices
In this virtual event on June 13 at 2PM ET, Dr. Majied will join Tricycle’s Web Editor Mike Sheffield to discuss how these practices can lead to insight and offer us guidance for wise, courageous living. She will do a deep dive into Black cultural traditions and how these manifest wisdom and mirror Buddhist insights regarding interdependence and the transmutation of suffering.
2024 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute
I will be presenting at Awakening Compassion in Times of Division: Breaking and Coming Together, the 2024 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute at the Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY.
Deepening Inquiry, Practice, and Community in the Greater Mindfulness Universe: A Workshop with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn has invited me to share wisdom from Joyfully Just at this retreat at the Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY. (This event has sold out!)
Looking in the Mirror of Black History: Living in the Now
This event at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina is perfect for anyone seeking a deeper connection to Black history and a way to explore its impact on their lives while gaining tools for personal and community transformation.
Joyful Grieving: A Mother's Day Remembrance and Celebration
For many of us, Mother’s Day brings much sorrow, either because we grieve the death of maternal figures who shaped us or because we grieve not having the kind of mothering we needed. In Joyfully Just, I talk about how grief can be joyful, so in this session, I'll guide you through practices to grieve maternal figures with joy.
Gather for Gaza
Ruth King from the Mindful of Race Institute will join me to offer supportive practices and resources to nourish your heart, mind, body, and spirit as we discuss what is happening in Gaza.
Friday, April 26 on Zoom, 11 am PT / 2pm ET.
Book Talk: Maintaining Wellness and Joy as We Create a Just World
Dr. Kamilah Majied, Professor of Social Work at CSUMB, will share key insights and practices to sustain wellness and positive engagement in social justice from her new book, Joyfully Just, Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living. In person at the CSUMB Library, Room 3145, Seaside, CA.
Contemplative Leadership Sanctuary - A Three-Day Retreat
A unique three-day retreat designed to infuse your approach to leadership with contemplative practices. Leaning on the experiences of scholar-practitioners like Kamilah Majied, Dr. Sará King, Stephen Shigematsu and Dr. Angel Acosta, this retreat will explore the edge of mindfulness–its promise and limitations in relationship to leadership. In particular, participants will be invited to think about contemplative leadership as it relates to social justice, disruptive technologies, and collective healing.
Buddhism, Freedom and the Actualization of Human Rights
At the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions: For the perspective of Nichiren Buddhism and the Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda, this panel will explore the ways in which the capacity to process human rights can be encouraged in both individuals and society. With Dr. Kamilah Majied, Dr. Tina Davis, and Mr. Danny Hall.
Dharma & Emancipation: Reflections on Juneteenth
In this hour-long conversation with Tricycle’s Associate Web Editor Amanda Lim Patton, Buddhist mental health therapist, professor of social work, and inclusivity and equity consultant Dr. Kamilah Majied will join us to explore how the residuals of slavery in the U.S. and globally compromise our experience of and insight into interdependence. During the conversation, Kamilah will discuss the significance of Juneteenth; what Buddhism says about emancipation, liberation, and freedom; the parallels between Buddhism and Black wisdom traditions; healing the ongoing impacts of intergenerational trauma and finding inner freedom; and more.
The pre-recorded conversation will be made available to all registrants on June 19 at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT.
Tricycle is glad to offer this event free of charge. Sign up at https://tricycle.org/events/dharma-and-emancipation-juneteenth/
Compassion in Therapy: Compassion-Based Approaches to Working With Shame
Compassion-Based Approaches for Working with Shame is a free online training for mental health professionals. Over three days, participants will learn from leading experts in the field, gaining science-based insights and practical skills through in-depth instruction, demonstrations with real clients, and guided practices.
Register Here: https://nr357.isrefer.com/go/23CIT/KM108/
CMC Mindfulness and Compassion Grand Rounds at Harvard Medical School
The Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School Grand Rounds series aims to disseminate information about new cutting-edge science, impactful clinical research findings, and best practices for enhancing accessibility, efficacy, and safety of mindfulness and compassion delivery, as well as providing opportunities for healthcare provider self-care and burnout prevention.
Dr. Majied will present “Contemplative Practices for Inclusive, Anti-Racist Clinical Engagement and Healthcare.”
Learn more at https://www.chacmc.org/grand-rounds
Dr. Kamilah Majied: Black History Month Celebration at Gavilan College
Kamilah will present at the Gavilan College Black History Month Celebration at the Student Center on Tuesday, February 28th, 1pm PT.
Black History in our Present and Future: Resilience, Restoration and Reparation
A free online event , part of the UCSD Center for Mindfulness Black History Month series: Resilience and Coping in Difficult Times. Register Here.
Out of the Lab Into the World: The Next Chapter of Contemplative Science
Dr. Majied will present Restoring the Elan Vital of Research: Principles and Practices of Inclusive, Anti-Racist Science in the symposium on social identity and context.
International Society for Contemplative Research: Inaugural Conference
Dr. Majied is an invited panelist for “CONTEMPLATIVE PEDAGOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: CENTERING WHOLENESS, EQUITY AND ANTI-OPPRESSION,” on Friday, February 3 at 10:30 AM.
Contemplative Psychotherapy: Deepening Personal and Social Transformation
Dr. Majied will be presenting an opening keynote dialogue with Dr. Joe Loizzo, as well as moderating the following discussion with panelists Moustafa Abdelrahman, Lama Rod Owens & Sharon Salzberg.
At a time when we face an unprecedented crisis in mental health, this summit offers a complete introduction to one of the most promising movements in psychological healing and psychosocial well-being—the growing integration of contemplative wisdom and practices into contemporary psychotherapy.
Parliament of World Religions on Buddhism, Black Liberation and Racial Justice
The 2021 Parliament of the World’s Religions will be the eighth convening and the first time that it will be hosted virtually. Recognized as the birthplace of the modern interfaith movement, the 1893 Parliament made history with its groundbreaking interreligious dialogues among leaders of Eastern and Western religious traditions, fostering understanding, cooperation and social harmony. Since 1893, six more Parliaments have been hosted in the United States, South Africa, Spain, Canada and Australia; attended by tens of thousands of people from around the world.
The Parliament of the World’s Religions will feature programs, presentations , and religious observances at the 2021 Parliament of the World’s Religions, to be held virtually, October 16-18.
The program will be hosted in Central US time, coinciding with the location of the Parliament headquarters in Chicago, but provide offerings for time zones around the world, on the theme Opening our Hearts to the World: Compassion in Action.
Join Dr. Majied and Dr. Murphy-Shigematsu in an interactive dialogue about the relevance of Buddhist teachings to Black liberation and ending racism.
Healing Centered Education Summit
Join Kamilah at the inaugural Healing-Centered Education Summit October 7th-11th. Through a series of restorative circles, panels, keynotes and practice sessions, this Summit will support individuals, organizations and communities in healing and enriching education.
Collective Trauma Summit 2021: Collective Healing in Action
Join Dr. Majied, Fania Davis, Justin Micheal Williams, Jon Kabat Zinn and 45 other noted leaders at the 2021 Collective Trauma Summit! This FREE online gathering highlights, African, Indigenous, Latinx and Asian heritage wisdom teachers, neuroscientists, and artists for an exploration of collective trauma and collective healing. Join us for 45+ talks, live online events, and poetry in the free Collective Trauma Online Summit: https://kmcts--thomashuebl.thrivecart.com/cts2021/
A Joyful Juneteenth Freedom Jam
3 - 6pm ET/12 - 3pm PT
This joyful retreat, facilitated by Dr. Kamilah Majied, will be a relaxing space to recover from racism and rejoice in Blackness. Dr. Michelle Chatman, chair of the CMind board and Founder of the Black Mindfulness Summit, cites the Yoruba expression “suffering ends today.” This wise adage reminds us that we can, using our masterfully creative, meditative, prayerful, playful minds, release suffering at any moment and decide to attend to enjoying our lives whenever and however we please. This is a truth that is known and enacted by Black people everywhere, every day, all day. We celebrate Black Excellence taking center stage in every realm from academics to gymnastics, from poetry to politics. Blackcellence is within us and all around us! Come celebrate it with us!
Self-selected registration: $10/$25/$50
Proceeds from your financial offerings will be shared with Mothers of the Movement, Unlock the Box, the teachers of the retreat, and CMind’s event scholarship fund.
Join us for as much of the gathering as your time allows. Live via Zoom; connection information will be shared once registered. Registration closes an hour before the event.
This gathering is open to ALL Black People regardless of ability to pay a registration fee. Please email Maya@contemplativemind.org for a free link if you are unable to pay for registration.