Practice and Council Groups
The White-Practitioners Unraveling Racial Karma (WURK) group is committed to helping create a sangha at Clouds in Water where all who wish to practice the teachings and precepts of Zen Buddhism feel safe, welcome, and nurtured. The creation of WURK responds to a call from LAB and BIPOC sangha members for white-bodied sangha members to more fully engage in the work of sangha transformation.
The group helps plan and promote programs and activities for white-bodied practitioners to examine racism in our society, and how the white mind is conditioned to support and maintain it. WURK also supports the white Racial Awareness Groups that are centered at Clouds (see below). WURK operates as an advisory group to the Guiding Teacher, and its members are chosen at the discretion of the Guiding Teacher in consultation with current WURK members. For more information, contact our Guiding Teacher, Sosan, at: sosan@cloudsinwater.org.
These small groups of white-bodied people work together to awaken to their role in perpetuating systemic racism and find ways to dismantle it. The groups focus on developing the awareness necessary to see through our individual and collective delusions and conditioning around race and move toward personal and social transformation.
Contact RAGinfo@cloudsinwater.org for more information, or to find out how to join one of the groups.
Re-Patterning Whiteness
This is a course we offer from time-to-time in person where we look at racism and white supremacy from an embodied, dharmic perspective. The course is facilated by Or Laura Levinson (they/them), a performing artist, arts organizer, and healer who feels most at home in motion. Or has been creating performance and facilitating workshops for the past eight years focused on de-assimilation, solidarity, and abrading whiteness.
To learn more about Or Laura Levinson and this special offering, click below!