Toward a Pedagogy of Tenderness

This talk focuses on the use of contemplative practices to teach about injustices as way to build multiracial learning communities. Offers practical and theoretical discussion about using yoga, meditation, opening and closing circles, and deep listening to encourage rigorous and transformative learning. In the Women's Studies Pink Parlor.Becky Thompson, award-winning writer, poet, activist, yogi, and Chair of Sociology at Simmons College in Boston will share her groundbreaking work on the role that yogic philosophy and practice can play in healing personal and systemic trauma created through racial and social inequality.