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.
Explore 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 …
A guided meditation to begin making space for healing political polarization, racial strife, and social disconnect …
Mindfulness can help us become aware of the lens through which we see the people around us, giving us more …
This guided meditation is a mindful journey of introspection and forgiveness. Tovi Scruggs-Hussein guides us to reflect on ingrained prejudices …
As we practice mindful awareness and communication around race, we can build our toolkit for showing up in the world …
When we can work with shame instead of avoiding it, we open ourselves up to opportunities for growth and healing …
Tovi Scruggs-Hussein invites us on a mindful journey of introspection and forgiveness, encouraging us to reflect on ingrained prejudices and …
“Microaggressions” can have a massive impact on those on the receiving end. Learning how to interrupt them from a lens …
About The Author

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