Restorative Economy - November 21, 2021

Braided Wisdom is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals ready to rise from the current policies that are destroying so much of our world. Our organization is determined to explore sustainable opportunities by reinvigorating old paradigms of restorative analysis in our communities in place of the current market analysis. This approach, which begins with essential self-discovery, can lead to a reclamation of cultural integrity and a deeper understanding of land and natural resources as they impact social welfare and development. This is especially concerning at a time where climate crisis is no longer avoidable and survival is threatened.

Special Guest: Konda Mason is a social entrepreneur, earth and social justice activist and spiritual teacher. She is the President of Jubilee Justice, Inc a nonprofit working to bring economic equity to BIPOC farmers and ecological sustainability by introducing an innovative way of growing rice, while convening deeply transformational journeys exploring the intersection of Land, Race, Money & Spirit. She is the Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland, and the Strategic Director of RUNWAY, a financial activist organization dedicated to closing the racial wealth gap for African American entrepreneurs. Additionally, Konda is the co-founder of the annual COCAP conference in Oakland, focused on “Building the We Economy” and a Just Transition.

Konda was one of the co-founders and co-facilitator of The Well-Being In Business Lab - Oakland, a cross-sector initiative guiding prominent business owners, non-profit leaders and government officials to a deeper level of intention within themselves and their businesses.

Ms. Mason, along with her partners actor Woody Harrelson and Laura Louie, owned the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and were the first to negotiate an organic food section in a major grocery store in 1997. In her work toward rebuilding a healthy planet, for many years Konda led eco-tourism trips to the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador in order to wake people up to become active stewards of this vital earth ecosystem.

In addition to her business pursuits, Konda is a Mindfulness Meditation teacher. She teachers classes, retreats and daylongs. She is empowered to teach in the lineage of Buddha-Dharma and Vipassana meditation through Spirt Rock Meditation Center. Her longtime mentors are Jack Kornfield and Larry Yang. Konda served on the Board of Directors of East Bay Meditation Center and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Her love for the dharma informs her life.

Konda is an accomplished filmmaker and artists manager and the recipient of an Academy Award nomination and a Grammy Award winner. She holds a Permaculture Design Certificate and is a Kripalu certified yoga teacher. She sits on the Board of Directors of Krista Tippett’s On Being, the Historic Clayborn Temple, Lions Roar Magazine and Paul Hawken's Regeneration. She is also a Trustee on the Board of Mills College in Oakland, CA.

https://www.jubileejustice.org/

https://www.evolveoakland.com/

Brown Rice Hour Podcast 

https://beherenownetwork.com/category/konda/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brown-rice-hour-with-konda-mason/id1528219621

This event registration is for the session on Sunday, November 21 from 10:00am - 12:00pm Pacific Time. A Zoom Link will be sent a couple days prior to the event.

Restorative Economy Event will be a Donation based offering.