Antiracism Education
& Trauma Therapy

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Dismantling cultural and structural oppression.

Unwinding and transforming white supremacy is a vital movement toward joyful, creative, and collective liberation.

Hi, I’m Anna-Brown.
(she/her pronouns, white-identified)

I’m a trauma therapist, meditation teacher, and facilitator on Coast Salish/Duwamish land known as Seattle. For the last twenty-five years I have been experimenting with how to integrate the transformative power of meditative practice, the skills of psychotherapy, and a good dose of anti-racist analysis to challenge and dismantle oppression.

Working primarily with white-bodied folks, I offer support and tools for mindfulness, embodiment and social justice:

  • Somatic and emotional capacity building

  • embodied mindfulness tools

  • Tools to develop stamina, resilience, and relational connection

  • A somatic, emotion, and cognitive lens on how systems of oppression play out at individual, relational, and organizational levels

Undoing cultural and structural white supremacy requires us to digest pain, trauma, and emotion while maintaining and strengthening connection. I help individuals, groups, organizations, and communities engaging in this work.

A bit more on where I’m coming from, who I’ve learned/am learning from, what has influenced my work:

  • Strozzi Somatic Coach training, Fall 2023 thru present

  • Holistic Resistance Facilitator training, Spring 2020, wIth ongoing facilitation mentorship

  • Resmaa Menakem and Carling Quinn Reparative Community Consult for White Bodies, 2021 and 2022

  • Healing White Body Supremacy, Generative Somatics based approach, with Sue Kyper and Donna Hirschfeld

  • Multiple trainings with Reverend angel Kyodo williams, integrating spirituality and social justice

  • Insight Dialogue teacher, https://insightdialogue.org/teachers/10403/anna-brown-griswold/

  • 30 + years of Buddhist meditation practice

  • Periodic facilitation training with Joanna Macy and others in The Work that Reconnects over the past 15 years

  • MA in Psychology, with emphasis on integrating how systems of oppression impact mental health, Antioch University 2011

  • Co-Founder of Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement residential house, San Francisco

  • Facilitator and mentor for Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement, through Buddhist Peace Fellowship

  • MA in Socially Engaged Buddhist Studies, emphasis on integrating Buddhist based spirituality into activism, Naropa University 2001

  • Challenging White Supremacy, Sharon Martinas

Positionality, Accountability, and Reparations:

  • As a cis-gender, bi, white woman, I have benefitted financially and educationally in countless ways from the system of white supremacy— educational opportunity, the lack of psychological toll of racialized aggressions in higher education, financial access— to name but a few. Thus it is essential to me to give a portion of whatever I receive in my social justice work as reparations— primarily to my BIPOC mentors at Holistic Resistance (https://www.holisticresistance.com/about).

For a list of organizations with whom I have worked, please reach out directly

As white folks, we need ways to genuinely metabolize the horrors of racism — not just grasp them intellectually.