About the workshop

Women have outnumbered men on college campuses since 1988, yet they have not moved up to positions of prominence and power at anywhere near the rate that should have followed. Even worse are the statistics for women of color. In fact, it has been estimated that, at the current rate of change, it will take more than 100 years to reach gender equality in the C-suite. Clearly something needs to change.

This workshop will explore how mindfulness and compassion can help us deal with difficult issues like individual, institutional and systemic injustice and discrimination through an inclusive and intersectional lens of gender. We will explore how practices of mindfulness and compassion can impact efforts to address and eliminate the causes of collective unconsciousness, implicit bias, systemic oppression, and inequity.

About the workshop holder

Lynn Koerbel has been training MBSR teachers since 2012. Before joining the Mindfulness Center at Brown, she was Director of MBSR Teacher Education and Curriculum Development at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness.

Prior to her MBSR teaching and training, Lynn spent over 25 years as an integrative bodywork therapist with a focus on supporting individuals who had experienced early trauma and assisting in the integration of the body in healing. This work influenced Lynn’s deep trust in the integrity of the body and its wisdom, the nature of resilience, the power of presence, and the inspiring human capacity to meet injury, trauma and stress with resources reflecting the inherent wholeness in each person.