**Mindful Medicine happens every third Wednesday of the month on Zoom from 7-8:15pm.** ([RSVP Here)](https://brownhope-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/PuSNXQgrSGe8b-lbaf_cfQ)

What we offer with Mindful Medicine is a culturally informed meditation and healing experience, open to anyone who is seeking to participate in the liberatory power of collective healing. If the current state of the world is causing you to feel exhausted and depleted— we offer this space as a way to be nourished, energized, and supported.

**There are four intentionally designed parts to Mindful Medicine:**
* Love Lessons, a quick teaching on various social justice related topics.
* Guided Meditation, a facilitator will lead us in gentle breathwork, inner awareness, and positive affirmations to cultivate feelings of peace, resilience, and trust.
* Writing Reflection, an opportunity to get our thoughts and feelings down onto paper before the group discussion.
* Group Discussion, a peer centered space to process, converse, and integrate our collective mindful experience.
  
We invite you to come to Mindful Medicine as your full authentic selves and share your lived experiences with radical vulnerability. We’ll have community guidelines with trained facilitators to ensure all voices have an opportunity to be heard and that the experiences of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people will be valued and respected.

Mindful Medicine is a multiracial space— **all races, backgrounds, and identities are welcome.** Let’s build community and strengthen our healing movement!

**#moralmeditation #wehealwithhope**


Mindful Medicine

Want to make a positive change in your community? Join the Brown Hope Action Team!

The Action Team meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month, from 6:30–8:30pm on Zoom. Our monthly meetings are an opportunity to meet with fellow neighbors and brainstorm on collaborative racial justice projects together.

The Action Team builds support for Brown Hope’s mission of racial healing through volunteering and grassroots activism. The Action Team consists of three Action Groups which anyone is welcome to plug into:

* **Solidarity Squad:** a group of neighbors helping neighbors by distributing mutual aid resources in a grassroots, relationship-based network.

* **Healing & Spirituality:** this group facilitates learning spaces and engaging activities related to racial trauma and healing. 

* **Community Social Events:** this group enthusiastically builds community by creating inclusive gatherings centered around peace, love, and joy.

Got questions? Please contact: [cameron@brownhope.org](mailto:cameron@brownhope.org).

[RSVP Here](https://brownhope-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/pf7jjl-1QTOi7UmSKBnbtw) 


Action Team Monthly Meeting

Brown Hope’s Monthly Book Club happens every first Thursday of the month on Zoom from 7-8:30pm. Our Monthly Book Club is organized by our Healing & Spirituality Action Group, and is a multiracial space– all races, backgrounds, and identities are welcome to participate. Together, we’ll create a supportive space to process, connect, and grow in community.

The first book we’re discussing is My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem. This powerful book explores how racism lives in the body and offers practices for healing, resilience, and collective liberation—through a step-by-step process grounded in neuroscience and somatic healing methods.

While the book focuses on the impact of racialized trauma on Black bodies, the practices and insights can be applied across communities, including Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples, who are all navigating systemic oppression and racial violence. 

Meets: First Thursday of each month, 7–8:30pm PST.[ Sign up here to receive the meeting link.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeK-AYYa2gdaBQDjTYoSNeBgUZGxJ8Zmf54rKBzytFFjExOlA/viewform)

Pace: Two chapters per month

Discussion Schedule:
* Feb 5 - chapters 8 & 9
* Mar 5 - chapters 10 & 11
* Apr 2 - chapters 12 & 13
* May 7 - chapters 14 & 15
* Jun 4 - chapters 16 & 17
* Jul 2 - chapters 18 & 19
* Aug 6 - chapters 20 & 21
* Sep 3 - chapters 22 & 23
* Oct 8 - chapter 24

Our book club is open to the public, feel free to share this invite with anyone who may be interested. If you have any questions, please contact[ healingaction@brownhope.org](mailto:healingaction@brownhope.org).


Brown Hope Monthly Book Club

February is Black History Month, an opportunity to honor the great achievements and sacrifices made by Black Americans throughout US history. When it was officially recognized in 1976, the public was encouraged to *“seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”*

**The Hidden History of Black Oregon**, brought to you by Brown Hope, is an online webinar that explores Oregon’s Black History. The presentation will be led by Brown Hope Founder and CEO, cameron whiten, followed by an audience Q/A.

[(RSVP Here)](https://events.humanitix.com/the-hidden-history-of-black-oregon)

Topics will include:
* The Birth of Oregon and Racial Exclusion Laws
* Black Migration and NW Portland
* The City of Vanport and the Flood
* Albina, Redlining, and the Model Cities Program
* Black Oregonians Who Made History
* Current Events and Movements for Black Liberation

[Support this important work with a $10 suggested donation.](https://www.brownhope.org/donate)
You can help bring more events like this to life. Any donation made today supports ongoing programming by Brown Hope, a nonprofit dedicated to healing, justice, and community.

Learn more about Brown Hope by visiting www.brownhope.org.


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