This event will be hosted by the Open Circle Center.
Engaged Nonduality recognizes that awareness and response are not separate. The same ground of being that reveals our shared nature also moves as a compassionate, embodied response. In this view, the crises of our time—including racism and systemic injustice—are not distractions from awakening but invitations to live it.
Awakening unfolds as our meeting with reality in all its forms: personal and collective, beautiful and painful, life-giving and unjust. When we allow ourselves to face what is, with clarity, equanimity, and courage, we discover that awareness itself is not overwhelmed. From this ground, wise and compassionate action can arise naturally.
In this session, Itzel Hayward invites participants to explore how awake awareness can support a steady, honest engagement with racism and systemic harm. When we turn toward these realities with awareness, we begin to recognize our participation in them and our capacity to respond differently. This is the meeting point between contemplative practice and social change.
Registration opens soon.
The video below is offered to support and deepen your experience of my upcoming event. If you have a chance, I invite you to watch it — or download and read the transcript linked here — before we meet