Trainings & Resources

Trainings & Resources
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We have collected a recommended list of trainings and courses regarding race, diversity, inclusivity, equity, intersectionality, and safer space:
- ARISE Sangha (part of the Plum Village Community): “Awakening through Race, Intersectionality & Social Equity”
- White Awake
- Courageous Conversations about Race Academy
- 101 Racialized Trauma Course by Resmaa Manakem (Resmaa Menakem’s Cultural Somatics are based on the book “My Grand Mother’s Hands”)
- Compassionate Activism: Healing from Toxic Whiteness
- Be More with Anu: Breaking-Bias
- Healing Racism: A 3-Part Series from Sounds True to Embrace Diversity in Our Personal Lives, Our Communities, and Our World
- Shelby Leigh: Creating Safer Space

Self-Study/Group Study & Materials Available Online
- RD Friends Act: Racial Justice Healing resources (Books, Organizations, Self-Study, Workshops, and Consultants)
- White Awareness Insight Curriculum for Uprooting Privilege (WAIC UP!): A Dharma and Racism Study Program
- Zen Community of Oregon: Awakening to Whiteness curriculum
- Triratnas’ Awareness is Revolutionary, Appendix with Canonical references here
- Racial Equity Tools
- Neurotribes: The New Diversity
- An Unconventional Path to Enlightenment
- East Bay Meditation Center: Accessibility Policy
- Disability Justice Project
- Showing up for Racial Justice
- Asian American & Buddhist – Lion’s Roar
- Bodhi Leaves: The Asian American Buddhist Monthly
- Books by LGBTQ Buddhist teachers and practitioners – Lion’s Roar
- [Academic Paper] Buddhism and Disability: Toward a Socially Engaged Buddhist ‘Theology’ of Bodily Inclusiveness
- [Book] Autism and Buddhist Practice, by Chris Jarrell
- [Book] Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community, by Larry Yang
- [Book] Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, by Ruth King
- [Book] Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation, by Valerie Brown, Marisela B. Gomez, and Kaira Jewel Lingo
