WHAT NOW?

Learning from Conflict in Spiritual Home
w/ Kazu Haga, Leah Penniman & sujatha baliga

Thursday, July 10th, 2025
10am-11am PT | 11am-12pm MT | 12pm-1pm CT | 1pm-2pm ET

Organized by Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Our spiritual and political homes often hold our fiercest longings — for justice, yes, but also for safety, for belonging, for liberation that embraces our whole selves: messy, sacred, and still unfolding.

And they also carry our contradictions. They hold our heartbreaks. Our missteps. The moments we can’t take back.

In this offering, we’ll be joined by three wise and courageous leaders — Kazu Haga, sujatha baliga, and Leah Penniman — each bringing years of lived experience in transformative justice, nonviolence, and movement healing. Together, we’ll explore how conflict can be a doorway, not a dead end — and how our political and spiritual communities can become more spacious, more accountable, and more whole.

This is not a training or a fix. It is a space for reflection, witnessing, and shared inquiry — for anyone who has ever wrestled with how to stay in community when things get hard, and still believe in the possibility of repair.

Together, we’ll ask: How do we stay in the storm — with open hearts and steady breath? What if our ruptures are sacred texts, written in the language of becoming? What if healing is not the absence of struggle, but the presence of grace — returning, again and again?

Come as you are — reverent, uncertain, becoming. There is room for you here. There always was.