Wisdom of The Body

10/27/2025

EMPATHIZING WITH THE “ENEMY” (or, How to Have More Joyful Holiday Dinner Table Conversations)
*** This coming Wednesday, or again in three weeks ***
In the best of times, holidays with family, friends, and associates can be stressful. This 1-hour workshop provides participatory opportunities to approach potentially conflictual conversations from the “inside out,” to create more connection, repair divisions, and lay down new neural pathways for even the oldest and deepest conflicts. We’ll even give you an easy-to-remember shortcut to keep in your back pocket for when those inevitable holiday dinner table conversations catch you off guard. Please join us, this same workshop is offered on two different Wednesdays, 10/29 at 4PM, and 11/19 at 9 AM, both Pacific Time.

Across the political aisle or the holiday dinner table, find inner resources and common ground — even after years of discord.

01/02/2025

I am morphing some of my best insights over the years into an app to provide on-demand mediation, and seed the collective consciousness with normalizing repair, to replace cancel culture, polarization, violence, and war. Interested? Check out

Mendful provides human conflict resolution mediators 24/7 on-demand. Quick and effective. Resolutions for disputes, arguments, disagreements with friends, family, co-workers, neighbors. Get help now!

03/07/2022

Love takes so many forms, some more accepted than others. Please join me for an interview and interactive workshop with an anti-racist white author on her memoir about her in*******al marriage with a Black man BEFORE it was legal in the U.S.

Meet Joan Steinau Lester, author of Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White in a lively discussion and workshop with Jill Nagle

01/13/2022

Reminds me of the quote from Georgia O'Keefe, "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." The difference is that white people can still (usually) hide in plain sight and avoid race-based harm. https://shoutout.wix.com/so/2aNvFYAtj?languageTag=en&cid=16a0d518-f168-49b9-b48a-b0d856744bfc #/main

03/29/2021

REMINDER: March 31st deadline to apply for this (quite possibly) once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with my cofacilitator Dr. Cleo Manago. He's a public figure and leading thinker of African descent in healing the effects of white supremacy mythology. If you want to include anti-racism in your leadership (and all of you are leaders!) in the coming year, I recommend that you consider this program. White men in particular urged to apply!

03/24/2021

Who do you know who wants support, mentorship, extremely effective skills, personal growth, and community to weave dismantling white supremacy organically into their life/leadership path? We're forming an amazing cohort right now. Learn more and apply here. White males, especially young ones, urged to apply!!!

Cleo Manago is a noted behavioral health and cultural expert, educator, life coach, [Black] human rights activist, researcher, and political analyst.  Since 1988, he has founded several often-emulated organizations, including the AmASSI Centers for Black Wellness & Culture where he is CEO, and, Bla...

03/18/2021

Here are some things people said about yesterday's workshop:

This workshop was a helpful & clear refresher on the core principles of having difficult conversations. I love how it was experiential -- I feel like I really got to feel the lesson as opposed to just learning the concepts, which has helped me to feel less scared about talking about hard things! - K.H., Maine

If you're interested in a few ideas about how to move conversations about race and inclusion with your friends and family forward, this class is a great introduction to that. What you accomplished in 2 hours is amazing. - Tina Quinn

An insightful, introspective process to further our learning and impact on reversing white supremacy. - Nicole Bauer

This workshop helped me gain confidence and skills in having all sorts of difficult conversations, including about race. - Michaela, San Francisco

Just one more shorter workshop before the main 22nd Century Leaders program begins in early April. Join us this Sunday: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-transformative-conversations-around-race-longer-workshop-tickets-136641254671

02/26/2021

An embodied approach to a cultural wound...

The other day, I stumbled upon something that helped me understand how racism in the United States of America makes complete sense. Fortunately, this discovery also points to a way forward. Light-skinned people of European descent who enjoy white privilege in this country — AKA, “white” people...