Working towards Justice: A mindful and compassionate approach
Instructors: Serena Maurer & Manka Varghese
EDUC 200 C, SLN 13785
What is mindfulness? How does it relate to work towards justice? How does compassion
fit in? In this course, we will engage mindfulness and compassion as frameworks and a set
of tools towards equity and justice. The course aims to : (1) cultivate awareness about
inequities and their effects, (2) increase knowledge of mindfulness, compassion and equity
frameworks and the possibilities their intersections produce, (3) foster compassion for our
own and one another’s experiences of inequity and (4) provide tools and increased
capacity for engaging in mindful, compassionate dialogue about historical and
contemporary inequities and movement towards change. We come at this work from an
intersectional perspective, with a focus on race as it interacts with other types of difference
and inequality. The course would also offer students tools for expanding equity work in
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