ARISE workshop – Engaging with skill and inclusivity.

Awakening through Race, Intersectionality, and Social Equity (ARISE)

ARISE-Our Vision

We aspire to engage the Plum Village community worldwide in the work of healing the wounds of racial injustice and social inequity, beginning with looking deeply within ourselves.  We seek a worldwide Manyfold Community that is consciously and committedly engaged in the work of transformation and healing of racial injustice and social inequity.  In so doing, we aspire to nourish and protect Beloved Community in our Manyfold Community and beyond.

ARISE-Who We Are

ARISE is a group of lay practitioners and monastics in the Plum Village tradition who have come together to heal the wounds of racial injustice and racial and social systemic inequity within ourselves and within the mahasangha, with the energy of compassion, understanding and love.

ARISE-Our Aspirations

• Co-create a network within our sangha communities for practitioners who are interested in racial justice and racial and social equity issues
• Encourage the sharing of resources and share information on articles, teachings, and practices on racial justice and racial and social equity
• Co-create a sacred, courageous space for discussion and exchange on mindfulness and racial justice and racial and social equity issues;
• Encourage diversity and inclusion in leadership within the mahasangha sangha and Order of Interbeing (OI) leadership
• Serve as a  resource for sanghas and practice communities in the Plum Village tradition and beyond, sharing ideas for and facilitating ARISE presentations at retreats, regular sangha gatherings, and other events