The Online Academy

A sanctuary for self-paced, mindfulness-based courses that support you in investigating your racial conditioning, cultivating emotional literacy, and embodying compassion in action.

Where Mindfulness, Racial Awareness, and Leadership Meet

Online Academy Courses:

Mindfulness practices and the Mindful of Race Framework™ are foundational in all course offerings. Mindfulness practices invite us into a deeper investigation of the structures of oppression engraved in our minds and reflected in the world. It supports us in becoming more aware and in experiencing mental ease, insight, and harmony. It does not erase racial ignorance or despair. Rather, it offers a way to slow down, to truly experience our lives, and to examine our relationship to our racial history, beliefs, and impulses. In essence, it helps us experience more intimacy with life. When we are being mindful, we can more readily acknowledge where we get stuck and discover what supports letting go. Instead of projecting or disowning discomfort, we can learn how to prolong and savor feelings of relief and openness.

MINDFUL OF RACE 101

A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO MEDITATING WITH RACE

SIX HINDRANCES TO RACIAL HARMONY

HEART PRACTICES FOR RACIAL WELLBEING

QUESTIONING RACIAL HABITS OF HARM

THOUGHTS ON STRUCTURAL RACISM

COACHING & CULTURAL COMPETENCY

EXPLORING INNER RACIAL BIAS

HEALING RACIAL TRAUMA

A JOURNEY INTO HEALING RAGE

BRAVE SPACE | FOR GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS

These courses offer an intentional structure to dive deep into an understanding of the ignorance and innocence of your racial habits, character, and impact. They strengthen your capacity to influence racial awareness and collective well-being with grace, clarity, and stability.

A Few Cheers!

Insight Meditation Teacher and Mentor

Brave Space was brilliant for supporting racial affinity groups to understand what it is we carry. The biggest aspect was having these difficult and challenging conversations in relationship with each other. I found this exploration powerful and important.

Susan Bauer-Wu, President, Mind & Life Institute

The Mindful of Race year-long training for our organization opened our eyes. It put a fire under us and allowed us to get real, to move the needle. It's critical to engage people who are knowledgeable and can guide us on this journey, The work is deep and the ripples continue.

JoAnna Hardy, Author & Founder of Meditation Coalition

I served as a Guided Teacher for a community struggling with issues around race, misogyny and hierarchy. Through doing Ruth's training, we had to open up to tough conversations and realities and dig in. Ruth King's work has been life changing to me and the communities I serve.

Tara Brach, author, Radical Compassion

Ruth's work offers us healing medicine for the suffering of racism. She not only helps us understand the complexity of our great racial divide, but she also offers core practices, reflections, and actions that give us hope for transformation.

Seth Van Der Swaagh, Industry Director, Advertising Sales, Google

The training was very well received, particularly Ruth's insight into dominant and subordinate group dynamics. In addition, Ruth's book is one of the best I've read on the work needed to transform racism, and I find myself underlining passages and reading things back to my wife regularly.

Ron Rawald, Sr. MD & Head of International Real Estate, Cerberus Capital Management

One of the hard truths of reading Ruth’s book was learning that I could not see my own whiteness. I never felt I had advantages. But I did! I now understand white privilege within me and our industry. This is why I invited Ruth to support us in having this conversation.

Tanisha Pleasant, MBA, Director of Equity Strategy, Strive Together

In our year together, Ruth drew the connections between mindfulness and race equity, and showed us how to remain grounded, strategic, and systemic while doing the important work of race.