EcoDharma exploration
A Path Towards Trust & Equanimity:
How to Nurture Beloved Community in Divided Times
This special monthly series of EcoDharma Explorations is offered in partnership with One Earth Sangha and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. A recording of the conversation will be provided for those who cannot attend the gathering.
Session Description:
Join us for a timely and powerful conversation with Konda Mason on how to re-center relationships and nurture beloved community as a response to systems of dehumanization and polarization. Together, we’ll explore what pathways toward deeper trust and equanimity can look like in these uncertain times.
Guiding questions include:
In what ways do the other three brahmavihārās — loving-kindness, compassion, and appreciative joy — support or deepen the cultivation of equanimity?
What role does compassion play in healing the divisions within and between us?
How do we return to connection, commonality, and the spiritual center within ourselves, our communities, and our democracy?
This session looks at the practices of deep listening and collective remembering as vital doorways into compassion and relational grounding. We recognize that the work of bridging divides cannot happen without an embodied understanding that the self is inseparable from the Earth, and without the courage to engage in our own inner healing and transformation. Together, we’ll explore these practices as both personal and collective commitments — a foundation for building bridges across differences and co-creating authentic communities rooted in trust, care, equity, and shared humanity.
About the Teacher:
Konda Mason is a social entrepreneur, earth and social justice activist and Mindfulness teacher. She is the founder and President of Jubilee Justice, Inc, a nonprofit working to bring climate resilient farming and economic equity to BIPOC farmers in the rural South in order to restore and accelerate Black land ownership and stewardship and create thriving Black farming communities. Jubilee Justice also convenes deep transformational learning journeys with multi-racial participants exploring conversations at the intersection of Land, Race, Money and Spirit.
Konda is Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland (newly renamed Evolve Oakland), a beautiful co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers. She is the Strategic Director of the Runway Project Oakland, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs, and the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland, with a focus on closing the racial wealth gap, restorative economics and a next economy just transition. Konda’s work is fueled by a passion to tirelessly work to help create a world that is environmentally regenerative, spiritually fulfilling, socially just and economically equitable. As a Buddhist practitioner and teacher, Konda understands all life on Earth as interconnected and longs for the day when humanity wakes up to this truth and builds a world based on interdependence, compassion and belonging…where all life is valued equally.