Mindful Racial Healing with Tovi Scruggs-Hussein

Mindfulness tools and meditations for exploring race and racism with the love and compassion needed for deep, systemic change.

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Welcome to our series on mindfulness for racial healing by educator, leader, and one of the 2021 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement, Tovi Scruggs-Hussein. 

As the mindfulness community stands at the forefront of helping people everywhere to develop emotional intelligence, compassion, and awareness of both self and others, we hope this series will result in opportunities for reflection, unlearning, and vulnerability to nurture cultural humility and heal. 

We are all affected by the divisiveness that currently defines our socio-political environment. This series is an invitation to explore difficult topics with the love and compassion needed for deep, systemic change. 

Each article includes:

  • Mindfulness-based tools for exploring the topics of race and racism.
  • Guided meditations to help you bring insights into practice and then out into the world.
  • Reflection prompts that accompany each article so you can integrate the work.
  • Q&A opportunities. Simply send your questions to yourwords@mindful.org and we may include them in a future Q&A article with Tovi’s response.

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Mindfulness for Racial Healing

Mindfulness for Racial Healing

Mindfulness can serve as the foundation for powerful conversations, transformational growth, and self-awareness when it comes to race and racism …
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A 12-Minute Meditation for Honoring Our Connection to Ourselves and Others

A guided meditation to begin making space for healing political polarization, racial strife, and social disconnect …
Uncovering Your Racial Bias: Mindfulness Practices for Growth and Healing—illustration of five hands of various skin colors reaching upward in fists.

Uncovering Your Racial Bias: Mindfulness Practices for Growth and Healing

Mindfulness can help us become aware of the lens through which we see the people around us, giving us more …
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A 12-Minute Meditation for Learning About Our Biases

This guided meditation is a mindful journey of introspection and forgiveness. Tovi Scruggs-Hussein guides us to reflect on ingrained prejudices …
How Mindfulness Can Help Us Heal White Fragility—Illustration of a white person and a person of color picking up the pieces of a large broken heart and putting it back together

How Mindfulness Can Help Us Heal White Fragility

As we practice mindful awareness and communication around race, we can build our toolkit for showing up in the world …
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How Shame Keeps Us Hostage to Racism

When we can work with shame instead of avoiding it, we open ourselves up to opportunities for growth and healing …
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Why Aggressions Are Not Micro and How to Avoid Them

“Microaggressions” can have a massive impact on those on the receiving end. Learning how to interrupt them from a lens …

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Tovi Scruggs-Hussein

Tovi Scruggs-Hussein is a leader-of-leaders and award-winning urban educator with almost 30 years of leadership and transformation experience. She is internationally recognized for her signature approach of moving from Leadership Do-ing to Leadership BE-ing and Emotionally Intelligent Equity & Inclusion. Tovi has been recognized by Mindful Magazine as one of the Powerful Women Leaders of 2021 who are igniting the world with courage and wisdom. She walks her talk of courageous leadership being cultivated by meditation, resilience, and self-mastery, having had a daily meditation practice for almost 30 years, and also sitting four week-long silent retreats. Tovi is on a mission to heal our leaders and organizations through SELf-Transformation for Systemic Transformation. She is the co-founder of ACSA’s Equity Leaders Academy, co-founding adjunct professor of Trauma-Responsive Leadership with an Equity Lens, and served as the national president for Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully. Tovi is a certified Integral Coach and has been personally trained by Dr. Brene Brown as a Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator to train others in courageous leadership with a lens of inclusion and belonging. Yet, the very best leadership training she ever received was the 17 years she spent as a high school principal. From keynotes to workshops to in-depth leadership development, Tovi cultivates conscious, connected, and courageous leaders world-wide. Ticiess.com