# Brooke Lavelle - Courage in Community

An episode of [Mind & Life](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1504112670), 25 Mar 2022, 58 min.

Audio: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/r8wja3/Brooke_220324_AIR.mp3

In this episode, Wendy speaks with Buddhist scholar, contemplative teacher, and social activist Brooke Lavelle. Brooke is the co-founder and president of Courage of Care, an organization that seeks to build transformational practice communities rooted in compassion, healing, and counter-oppressive frameworks. This conversation covers many topics, including: • her trajectory of work from mindfulness to compassion to relational practice to social justice; • relationality as the starting point for contemplative growth; • Courage of Care, and the CourageRISE framework; • routes to understanding oppressive systems; • the body as culture; • the skills needed to build multicultural community; • applications in climate work; • the non-dual frame as an antidote to othering; • and love as an organizing principle. Full show notes and resources

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