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LIFE: Emerging from the Pandemic Portal

Music, creative writing, dialogue and mindfulness

Online mindfulness session for BPOC youth: 17 July 2021

We are back with another workshop for BPOC youth and are excited to host our first international event across 2 different time zones!

Join us for another opportunity to reflect on what we’re taking with us as we move through the portal of the pandemic. Through mindfulness practices, reflection and creative writing, we will create a space to look back at what we learned from our experience of disruption over the last year, and explore what we’re taking forward with us into a new future.

What are we bringing with us from this transition? What kind of systems or realities of normal do we wish to return to? And how do we sustain our wellbeing and create the new story we want to see?

Join us for a session of:

  • Restorative practices
  • Creative reflections
  • Community connection in a supportive space

Date and Time

Date: 17 July 2021
Time: This will be an international event hosted across 2 time zones.

  • Option 1: 1-2.30 pm UK BST / 8-9.30 USA EDT
  • Option 2: 13.00-14.30 USA EDT / 6-7.30 PM UK BST

Who is it for?

This session is open to teens, young adults, and the adults who support them. We encourage intergenerational participation!

    • anyone who identifies as a person of colour (Black, Asian, Latinx, Middle Eastern, mixed heritages & indigenous people of north, central and south America)
    • teens and young adults ages of 15-24 and those who support them.

Session Facilitators

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Charisse Minerva Spencer

Charisse Minerva Spencer

Charisse Minerva Spencer brings to the Mindfulness arena a background in Arts, Science, and Youth Development. She earned a B.S. Degree in Medical Technology from the Medical College of Virginia/VCU. However, her love of the Arts led her to divert her path in order to live her passion for dance and choreography. Later Charisse returned to school to get a Masters in Performance Studies with a concentration in Dance Anthropology from Tisch School of the Arts/New York University. Her eclectic professional experience coupled with more than 30 years of practice in the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist organization led to her interest in Mindfulness. Charisse brings a scientific and artistic approach to the field investigating the existence of contemplative practices, its individual and cultural significance, as well as how these practices can be introduced in ways that are broad-based. She has worked with Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP), Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme), is Mindfulness Coordinator at Friends School of Virginia Beach, and has done workshops in schools, festivals, corporate offices, detention & treatment centers.

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Hakim Taylor

Hakim Taylor

Hakim is a qualified teacher and special educational needs coordinator. He lived and worked in The Gambia for eleven years, where he set up a school and charitable foundation for young people. He first discovered meditation in 1992 at a retreat with the London Buddhist centre and has since qualified to teach mindfulness through .b and the Youth Mindfulness programme. As a parent of five children (now adults) Hakim runs groups for parents and has been trained to deliver EHCAPs Mindful Emotion Coaching for parents and teenagers. He supported the 2018 iBme retreat. Hakim is interested in continuing to develop mindfulness within schools and the wider community, with a particular focus on Black and minority ethnic communities. He hosts a local community weekly radio show, engaging with music and poetry and showing how these can support mindful practice.

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Kareem Ghandour

Kareem Ghandour

Kareem first encountered mindfulness at the age of 18 and has been inspired about sharing it with young people ever since. He has spent many years active in initiatives for mindfulness in education and in mindful communities for youth, as a facilitator in peer- led settings, and teaching on courses and retreats. These include the Wake Up movement for young adults and the charity Youth Mindfulness. He completed his mindfulness teacher training in 2018 and was trained in person by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. He is passionate about exploring the role of play, creativity and social justice in the mindfulness world

Registration Form

Participation is free but registration is required.


We look forward to seeing you on 3 July if not before 🙂