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

Selma is a researcher, writer, speaker, and graduate student in psychology at UC Berkeley, Copenhagen University, and UCLA. She is passionate about findings ways to cultivate individual and collective well-being, as well as making the already existing knowledge accessible for everyone, which she does as a writer for UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. She specializes in research within positive health psychology, compassion, mindfulness, and yoga. She has co-authored and been a part of various research projects, articles, and book chapters in this regard, including a project teaching leaders at Google in a mindfulness-based leadership program for sustainability development, as well as a research project on empathy at UC Berkeley with Dr. Dacher Keltner.