Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Updated 1.23.2022
2022 Spring Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program
White Awareness: Relational Mindfulness and Race Equity

Anti-Racism Education in an Online Mindful Learning Community
“White Awareness: Relational Mindfulness and Race Equity” program integrates the spiritual practice of mindfulness and anti-racism education. Within a dedicated community, we explore what it is to be white, while learning to pay attention in the present without judgment. Through present moment awareness we may better understand the impact of racism and cultural conditioning. We cultivate respect and kindness towards all beings in order to live connected, compassionate, and wakeful lives.
WHEN: Weekly on Thursdays
Eastern time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Central time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Mountain time: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Pacific time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
2022 SPRING DATES:
Orientation: Thursday, March 3
Session 1: Thursday, March 10
Session 2: Thursday, March 17
Session 3: Thursday, March 24
Session 4: Thursday, March 31
Session 5: Thursday, April 7
Session 6: Thursday, April 14
Session 7: Thursday, April 21
Session 8: Thursday, April 28
PROGRAM PREREQUISITES: This program is for white-identified individuals, and by application only. Suggested regular mindfulness practice.
REGISTRATION: Registration closes Thursday, February 17, 2022Contact: Susie Clarion at: rmawa4@gmail.com for application, and to schedule facilitator meeting to discuss program parameters. Registration complete and space reserved when: all paperwork received, facilitator meeting completed, and payment accepted. Zoom link sent prior to first session.
*Class size limited, early registration suggested.*
PROGRAM FEE: Sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Financially secure: $375. I am comfortably able to meet my basic needs*.
Financially stretched: $275. I may stress meeting basic needs* and regularly achieve them.
Financially stressed: $150. I frequently stress meeting basic needs* not always achieving them.
*Basic needs: food, shelter, medical care, clothing, and transportation.
One quarter all proceeds will be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative at: https://eji.org.
PROGRAM LOCATION: Via Zoom video platform. Free download at: https://zoom.us
FACILITATORS: Holly Nelson-Johnson, MSN, APN, FNP-BC; Judith Bernstein, PsyD, MA; Susan Clarion, MATS, BSN, RN; Michele Zukerberg, MF, BS. Our team has been offering programs for over twenty-five years including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Interpersonal Mindfulness, Insight Dialogue, and Social Justice/Race Equity programming. Nancy Zegarchuk will offer Zoom support.
“(We) are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
“White Awareness: Relational Mindfulness and Race Equity” program integrates the spiritual practice of mindfulness and anti-racism education. Within a dedicated community, we explore what it is to be white, while learning to pay attention in the present without judgment. Through present moment awareness we may better understand the impact of racism and cultural conditioning. We cultivate respect and kindness towards all beings in order to live connected, compassionate, and wakeful lives.
WHEN: Weekly on Thursdays
Eastern time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Central time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Mountain time: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Pacific time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
2022 SPRING DATES:
Orientation: Thursday, March 3
Session 1: Thursday, March 10
Session 2: Thursday, March 17
Session 3: Thursday, March 24
Session 4: Thursday, March 31
Session 5: Thursday, April 7
Session 6: Thursday, April 14
Session 7: Thursday, April 21
Session 8: Thursday, April 28
PROGRAM PREREQUISITES: This program is for white-identified individuals, and by application only. Suggested regular mindfulness practice.
REGISTRATION: Registration closes Thursday, February 17, 2022Contact: Susie Clarion at: rmawa4@gmail.com for application, and to schedule facilitator meeting to discuss program parameters. Registration complete and space reserved when: all paperwork received, facilitator meeting completed, and payment accepted. Zoom link sent prior to first session.
*Class size limited, early registration suggested.*
PROGRAM FEE: Sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Financially secure: $375. I am comfortably able to meet my basic needs*.
Financially stretched: $275. I may stress meeting basic needs* and regularly achieve them.
Financially stressed: $150. I frequently stress meeting basic needs* not always achieving them.
*Basic needs: food, shelter, medical care, clothing, and transportation.
One quarter all proceeds will be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative at: https://eji.org.
PROGRAM LOCATION: Via Zoom video platform. Free download at: https://zoom.us
FACILITATORS: Holly Nelson-Johnson, MSN, APN, FNP-BC; Judith Bernstein, PsyD, MA; Susan Clarion, MATS, BSN, RN; Michele Zukerberg, MF, BS. Our team has been offering programs for over twenty-five years including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Interpersonal Mindfulness, Insight Dialogue, and Social Justice/Race Equity programming. Nancy Zegarchuk will offer Zoom support.
“(We) are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

TEACHER: Holly Nelson-Johnson, MSN, APN, FNP-BC is a Family Nurse Practitioner, certified MBSR, Interpersonal Mindfulness, and Insight Dialogue teacher. She has offered Mindfulness-Based programs at Old St. Patrick’s since 2006, and has been teaching in the field of Mindfulness for more than twenty-five years.
CONTACT: Holly Nelson-Johnson: hnjohnson@icloud.com or go to: www.mindfulnessforliving.org
“There is in all visible things, a hidden wholeness" - Thomas Merton
CONTACT: Holly Nelson-Johnson: hnjohnson@icloud.com or go to: www.mindfulnessforliving.org
“There is in all visible things, a hidden wholeness" - Thomas Merton