In this follow-up session, we explore how compassion guides us even in moments of conflict and harm. We’ll examine the protective use of force as an expression of care rather than control, and practice the processes of mourning and reconciliation as pathways to healing. Through reflection and dialogue, participants will explore how both standing firm and softening in grief can be acts of love—each inviting us back into right relationship with ourselves and one another.

This is a private event.

This meditation will be an opportunity for us to ground ourselves in the transformative power of the seasonal shift. Together, we'll honor the blessings of the darkness that guards and nourishes us and celebrate the light's presence and its ever-changing rhythm in our lives.

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This event will be hosted by the Open Circle Center.

How do we honor the ground of Being and meet racial injustice with clarity, courage, and care? In many spiritual spaces it can feel easier to return to stillness than to engage the world’s suffering. Yet genuine awakening naturally flowers as compassionate action. In this session, we’ll explore how awake awareness becomes a reliable inner resource for non-cooperation with harm, structural discernment, and community-level change.

Rooted in contemplative practice and practical frameworks, we will move beyond concepts into embodied, workable steps—so that our realization supports repair, redistribution, and more welcoming communities.

This event is part of the Engaged Nonduality series, hosted by Lisa Ferguson, which explores how nondual wisdom may respond to our world in crisis. We live in a time of multiple intersecting crises that threaten the wellbeing of all life, including climate breakdown, unaligned tech and AI, injustice, war and authoritarianism. The recognition of nonduality has much to offer in these times, including a deep knowing of our wholeness and shared Being, as well as opening to the wellspring of our wise and creative response. This series invites guest presenters to explore how nondual teaching may respond to planetary crises through talks, practices and group participation.

Recording will be emailed to participants within a week.
You’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend the live session.

Details to follow.