Co - Hosted by Maria Tan & Dru McDaniels 

Maria Tan is the founder and director of House of Thriving which empowers leaders across education, the arts, and corporations to thrive authentically and powerfully for those they serve. Through Thriving Teacher Project, she designs and facilitates workshops, courses, and community building experiences focused on mindfulness, social emotional learning, and collective healing as cornerstones of thriving.

Drisana McDaniel is a mother-worker-activist, and race equity and justice facilitator. tHer teaching addresses social injustice, racialized dimensions of trauma, resilience and capacity, and connecting across differences to experience healing and integrity. Through her practice The Alchemy of Now, Drisana attends to the nitty-gritty of our individual and collective experiences from an embodied, historical, social, and psychospiritual perspective. She envisions transformational justice as the fruit of contemplation and action. As a coworker-cofounder of the Transformative Teaching Collective, she supports organizations and groups by designing and facilitating workshops and gatherings that focus on conflict-resolution, social justice education, empathy, the practice of non-violence, healing and collaboration. She has a passion for curating events to facilitate radical interconnectedness, and is most hopeful about what can happen when we explore our connections to each other and the earth.

Guest Presenter - Angel Acosta

For the last decade, Angel Acosta has worked to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice and mindfulness. He recently received his doctorate in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. Angel has supported educational leaders and their students by facilitating leadership trainings, creating pathways to higher education, and designing dynamic learning experiences. His dissertation explores healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development.

After participating in the Mind and Life Institute’s Academy for Contemplative Leadership, he began consulting and developing learning experiences that weave leadership development, conversations about inequality and healing to support educational leaders through contemplative and restorative practices. As a former Trustee for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, he participated as a speaker and discussant at the Asia Pacific Forum on Holistic Education in Kyoto, Japan. Angel continues to consult for organizations like the NYC Department of Education, UNICEF, Columbia University and others.

Price & Registration

We will teach the course again in the coming months. Please sign up to be updated on when registration opens. We want to make this course accessible. We will offer four tiers based on your relative financial needs & standing.