Rhonda Magee, Law Professor Using Mindfulness to Defeat Bias

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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"Part of what I have decided for myself - it's a decision - I don't want to be part of the pain, creating more pain in the world, for myself or for others," said Rhonda Magee, a law professor at University of San Francisco. "So it's that capacity with mindfulness to get a sense into ... what my own experience of feeling vulnerable, feeling afraid, what it does to me, how I start to look at the world through the lens of that ... now [I'm] at a place where I'm not reacting from a place of fear." A law professor for 20 years and a mindfulness teacher for lawyers and law students, Magee argues that mindfulness can be a solution to combating bias and discrimination. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:24.5	We have a great guest this week. Ronda McGee has a very compelling personal story and
1:29.4	she's going to talk a lot about teaching mindfulness to what you might imagine would be a hostile
1:35.8	audience of lawyers and also whether mindfulness can help with racism, something that she's
1:42.6	experienced personally. So we'll get to round to in a second.
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1:51.2	12th, a couple of events you might want to attend. I'm going to be given to talk in the
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2:05.7	a few questions. That's our new thing here on the show. Question number one.
2:09.5	Hi Dan. My name is Andrea and I am a high school teacher in Arkansas and in light of
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