Presence Collective is delighted that our teachers will be offering live webinars every Thursday. These sessions will include a teaching and practice designed to help support you during these challenging and uncertain times.
Please join Dr. Sará King, neuroscientist at OHSU and founder of MindHeart Consulting, and Rashid Hughes, core facilitator and co-leader of the Heart Refuge dharma community for BIPOC, as they continue to explore the embodied expression of "Aggression Masquerading as Compassion, Part II“ and what this means for the work of liberation, healing and social justice.
In the second part of this dharma series, Rashid and Dr. King will explore the Buddhist 8-fold path as a pathway and a “map” to explore both Aggression and Compassion. They will offer both a discussion as well as a guided meditation practice and an opportunity for community sharing/questions.
These webinars are offered by donation. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
*Sliding scale language borrowed with permission from Rev. angel Kyodo williams.
$15 - Rebalancing: for those with more than enough financial resources (personal or institutionally supported) and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.
$12 - Fair: for those with sufficient financial resources who can pay fair value for the experience.
$10 - Supported: for those with currently limited financial resources who will avoid further hardship while benefiting from access supplemented by the community.
Dr. Sará King M.A., Ph.D. (she/her/they) is a UCLA-trained political and learning scientist, neuroscientist, social-entrepreneur, public speaker, and yoga and meditation instructor. She has over 20 years of experience as a research scientist, and specializes in the study of the relationship between mindfulness, community healing/medicine, and social justice.
She is also the founder of MindHeart Consulting, offering up workshops, seminars, and evidence-based research projects based on the framework she developed called the "Science of Social Justice" - a way of both studying (researching), teaching (facilitating), and healing individuals and communities from the dis-ease of othering - informed by an interdisciplinary framework that merges medical and cultural anthropology, political science, ethnic studies, feminist and queer studies, interpersonal neurobiology, cognitive and affective neuroscience, psychology, socio-linguistics, and public health.
As a life-long athlete and lover of movement and dance as expressions of her personal spiritual practice, Dr. King has been an avid student-practitioner of vinyasa and hatha yoga, as well as a student of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism for 15+ years.
Rashid Hughes is a native of Richmond Virginia. He is a proud graduate of the Howard University Department of Music and the Howard University School of Divinity. Rashid is a certified Mindfulness and Yoga Teacher and a Restorative Justice Specialist in Washington DC. In 2019, Rashid co-founded the Heart Refuge Mindfulness Community, a Mindfulness Community in Washington, DC that is dedicated to inspiring People of Color to live with love and courage. The foundational pillars of Heart Refuge are 1. Embodied Practice 2. Ancestor Acknowledgement 3. Community. They offer a drop-in guided meditation session every Tuesday at 6:00pm EST and a Thursday session at 6:45pm EST that consists of ancestor contemplations, guided meditations, music and dance, and also community sharing. As a Restorative Justice Specialist, Rashid facilitates an alternative approach and process to handling conflicts, addressing misbehavior, supporting accountability, and repairing harm in communities throughout the Washington, DC area.