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Claudelle Glasgow, Kamilah Majied, Breeshia Wade, and Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Blackness, Buddhism, and Trauma (With Q&A)
About This Session
What are the personal and intergenerational traumas that Black people—and, in different ways, all people—suffer from living in a deeply racist society? How can Buddhist practice help us to face and unravel racial trauma? And what does trauma-informed practice look like? In this panel conversation, summit host and pastoral counselor Ayo Yetunde engages three experts on these questions, exploring how Blackness, Buddhism, and trauma have intersected in their lives and how they approach trauma in their professional and clinical work. Audience members will be invited to send questions for the panelists during the latter part of the event.
About Claudelle Glasgow, PSYD
Dr. Claudelle Glasgow (Dr. g) is a non-binary, queer, first-generation Afro-Caribbean. They serve as licensed clinical psychologist, Buddhist chaplain/death doula, writer, and public speaker. Dr. g’s healing work centers BIPOC at their intersections, utilizing technologies of the arts, somatics, and spirit to support inter-generational healing. In their creative offerings, Doc centers applied Buddhism, psychology, liminal spaces, and inter-generational dialogue and story through hybrid forms.
You can learn more Dr. g's work on their website and connect on Instagram and Twitter.
About Kamilah Majied, PhD
Dr. Kamilah Majied is a therapist, educator, author, and internationally engaged consultant on building inclusivity using meditative practices. Kamilah teaches contemplative practice from several perspectives including MBSR, mindfulness and racial justice, and mindfulness practices to preserve the environment. After 15 years of teaching at Howard University, Dr. Majied is now a Professor at CSU, Monterey Bay. She serves as the Inclusivity Advisor for the Contemplative Coping During COVID 19 Research Project at UC Davis, Center for Mind and Brain and as Anti-Racism Consultant for The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Drawing from her decades of contemplative practice and leadership, Dr. Majied engages people in experiencing wonder, humor and insight through transforming oppressive patterns and deepening relationships.
You can learn more about her work and how she uses contemplative practices in education, mental health, organizational development, and diversity, equity and inclusion work on her website.
About Breeshia Wade
Breeshia Wade has served as a lay ordained Zen Buddhist end-of-life caregiver and birth doula by day, and a writer, sex, and grief coach in the evening. In all aspects of her career, she seeks to uncover the ways that we experience grief–in our relationship with ourselves and others, at the beginning and end of life, in the daily experiences of systemic injustice–and how we can use that grief to inform rather than drive us. She attended Stanford University, where she earned a BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, with a focus in Creative Writing. Her journey led her to earn an MA from the University of Chicago in Religious Studies and then spend two years at a Buddhist chaplaincy training at Upaya Zen Center. She is the author of Grieving While Black: An Anti-racist Take on Oppression and Sorrow.
You can learn more about her work on her website and find her course on Good Grief: An Indepth Roadmap from Ally to Anti-racist here.
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD is the co-editor of Black and Buddhist. She is a chaplain and pastoral counselor, co-founder of Center of the Heart, a spiritual wellness organization that focuses on body, behavior, and beliefs. She is also founder of Audre: Spiritual Care for Women with Cancer. Ayo has written for Lion's Roar magazine and has published other books on Buddhism.
Ayo's articles on Buddhism can be found on Lion's Roar and Ayo's books can be found here.
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About This Session
What are the personal and intergenerational traumas that Black people—and, in different ways, all people—suffer from living in a deeply racist society? How can Buddhist practice help us to face and unravel racial trauma? And what does trauma-informed practice look like? In this panel conversation, summit host and pastoral counselor Ayo Yetunde engages three experts on these questions, exploring how Blackness, Buddhism, and trauma have intersected in their lives and how they approach trauma in their professional and clinical work. Audience members will be invited to send questions for the panelists during the latter part of the event.
About Claudelle Glasgow, PSYD
Dr. Claudelle Glasgow (Dr. g) is a non-binary, queer, first-generation Afro-Caribbean. They serve as licensed clinical psychologist, Buddhist chaplain/death doula, writer, and public speaker. Dr. g’s healing work centers BIPOC at their intersections, utilizing technologies of the arts, somatics, and spirit to support inter-generational healing. In their creative offerings, Doc centers applied Buddhism, psychology, liminal spaces, and inter-generational dialogue and story through hybrid forms.
You can learn more Dr. g's work on their website and connect on Instagram and Twitter.
Kamilah Majied, PhD
Dr. Kamilah Majied is a therapist, educator, author, and internationally engaged consultant on building inclusivity using meditative practices. Kamilah teaches contemplative practice from several perspectives including MBSR, mindfulness and racial justice, and mindfulness practices to preserve the environment. After 15 years of teaching at Howard University, Dr. Majied is now a Professor at CSU, Monterey Bay. She serves as the Inclusivity Advisor for the Contemplative Coping During COVID 19 Research Project at UC Davis, Center for Mind and Brain and as Anti-Racism Consultant for The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Drawing from her decades of contemplative practice and leadership, Dr. Majied engages people in experiencing wonder, humor and insight through transforming oppressive patterns and deepening relationships.
You can learn more about her work and how she uses contemplative practices in education, mental health, organizational development, and diversity, equity and inclusion work on her website.
About Breeshia Wade
Breeshia Wade has served as a lay ordained Zen Buddhist end-of-life caregiver and birth doula by day, and a writer, sex, and grief coach in the evening. In all aspects of her career, she seeks to uncover the ways that we experience grief–in our relationship with ourselves and others, at the beginning and end of life, in the daily experiences of systemic injustice–and how we can use that grief to inform rather than drive us. She attended Stanford University, where she earned a BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, with a focus in Creative Writing. Her journey led her to earn an MA from the University of Chicago in Religious Studies and then spend two years at a Buddhist chaplaincy training at Upaya Zen Center. She is the author of Grieving While Black: An Anti-racist Take on Oppression and Sorrow.
You can learn more about her work on her website and find her course on Good Grief: An Indepth Roadmap from Ally to Anti-racist here.
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD is the co-editor of Black and Buddhist. She is a chaplain and pastoral counselor, co-founder of Center of the Heart, a spiritual wellness organization that focuses on body, behavior, and beliefs. She is also founder of Audre: Spiritual Care for Women with Cancer. Ayo has written for Lion's Roar magazine and has published other books on Buddhism.
Ayo's articles on Buddhism can be found on Lion's Roar and Ayo's books can be found here.
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Another deeply appreciated session. Thank you to all involved🌹
Blackness, Buddhism and Trauma was the first and only webinar that I was able to watch. Each speaker spoke wisdom from the heart. A beautiful gift. I look forward to watching the other webinars.
Unable to express how moved I was by this presentation (and all the previous presentations). Thank you all so very much.
These links aren’t working for me either. Any idea how to get them working? I’d love to see this panel. Thanks.
links did not work but I think it’s because the webinar is already over, so can’t see it ‘live’. i’m guessing it will be made available later today. thank you. looking forward to this.
EXCELLENT!!! This is the only thing I can say about the wisdom these women brought forward
including Ayo. I think a major aspect of the healing process for all of us (both black & white & others) is to practice Deep , Deep, Listening at the cellular level in order to increase our capacity to hear ourselves and others Kudos to the significant work you four women have done.
Profound gratitude to have been able to experience all the generosity of this summit. May you be well.
All the presentations have great relevance for my country India as well though we are a cocktail of cultures and religious persuasions. Thank you very much for this great, valuable webinar. Edward Mudavassery, Pune
EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT… so sorry for its ending. Yet all is impermanent. I stay with the trove of richness I have heard. Have I embodied it? Digested your words? …Possibly some. Only in the practice.
I am grateful. MArcia
I am deeply moved by the way each of you have engaged and are living and manifesting your practice (and all the profound work implied). Your eloquence and pith in each response created a lot of space for my heart and mind to open. I look forward to learning more from each of you. And I deeply admire Ayo’s skill in formulating the questions and finding a most beautiful way to culminate this gem of a dialogue. All profoundly exquisite. Deep gratitude.