About this Event
Fierce Vulnerability: Healing, Spirit and Action in a Time of Collapse
TWO DAYS: Saturday, June 27th & Sunday, June 28th, 2026
10AM - 5PM PT ()
With Kazu Haga and Guangping Chu
Open to all
The center is fragrance-free and wheelchair accessible
N95/KN95 masks strongly encouraged.
The book invites people into imagining a movement that sees injustice not as a political issue but a manifestation of collective trauma, and therefore understands that we can’t “shut down” injustice anymore than we can “shut down” trauma.
Through touching our own heartbreak and vulnerability, we will mobilize the fierceness to stop violence and injustice while cultivating the love necessary to heal it.
The workshop will include dharma talks, meditations, role-plays and interactive small group work.
All are welcome! Full participation for both days is required.
Public Transportation/Parking:
- We strongly encourage public transportation/biking/walking since parking in the neighborhood is limited.
- EBMC is 4-5 blocks from 19th Street Bart (about a 7 minute walk).
- EBMC has bike parking inside the center.
- Meter parking is free on Sunday, and enforced Monday-Saturday 8am-6pm.
- There are also garages on Harrison at 15th and on Harrison between 17th and 19th. If you are planning to drive, please allow extra time for parking.
Cost
The teachings are regarded as priceless. So they are offered without a fee. You are invited to support the teachings and our efforts by contributing voluntary donations (the practice of “Dana”) for the expenses of the meditation center and the support of the teachers.
The ticket prices are listed as different tiers with suggested donations based on income ranges. For those who wish to give more, you may choose an "add-on" to your ticket. For those unable to give, there is an option for that.
Note that all financial gifts received here go directly to EBMC, and we invite you to give separately to our teachers, using the information below.
Other ways to give:
To make a gift to sustain the work of East Bay Meditation Center, you may do so at bit.ly/ebmc-give 100% of our programming on a sliding scale and no one will ever be turned away for lack of funds.
Please also consider giving a financial gift to our teachers as well, who do not receive a salary for their work, and give their teachings freely to all.
Venmo: @kazuhaga
Paypal: PayPal.me/kazuhaga
kazuhaga.com/support
Please reference "Fierce Vulnerability".
For in-person participation:
For those wishing to practice in person, space will be limited to 60 people to allow ample space for social distancing. Participants are strongly encouraged to wear N95 or KN95 face masks. (N95 face masks will be available at EBMC.) Please note: The teacher may be unmasked while teaching.
To attend in person, you need to be completely free of fragranced body and clothing products -- more information and a list of fragrance free products, including those that are especially good for people of color, appears on our website:
https://eastbaymeditation.org/resources/fragrance-free-at-ebmc/
East Bay Meditation Center is a scent free / fragrance free space and is wheelchair accessible.
Teacher
Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice with over 25 years of experience in social movement work. He is a founding core member of the Ahimsa Collective, a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse. He works with incarcerated people, youth, and activists from around the country. He is a resident of the Canticle Farm community on Lisjan Ohlone land, Oakland, CA, where he lives with his family. You can find out more about his work at www.kazuhaga.com.
Guangping Chu (all pronouns) loves to play with kids and trees. A recovering public school teacher, she is a radical educator and accomplice to unschooling, helping make space for kids to play, be free, connect with more than human worlds, and nourish their spiritual roots. They are also a steward of multiple mindfulness meditation communities centering QTBIPOC and community organizers. Guangping’s healing journey includes uprooting patriarchy and toxic masculinity, making reparations for intergenerational wealth, navigating chronic illness, learning their ancestral language(s), and being silly, to name a few threads. He is a queer, mixed race, Chinese American heritage Buddhist and ordained member of Tiếp Hiện, in the Vietnamese Plum Village tradition.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
285 17th St, 285 17th Street, Oakland, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 210.99
