Lama Rod facilitates undoing patriarchy workshops for male identified practitioners in Brooklyn and Boston and his current writing projects include patriarchy in spiritual communities, sexuality and ethics, and fatness and spirituality. He has offered talks, retreats, and workshops for many organizations and universities including New York University, Yale University, Harvard University, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Tufts University, University of Vermont, and Boston College. He is a regular guest on SiriusXM’s Urban View hosted by journalist and publisher Karen Hunter. He has been published and featured in several publications including Buddhadharma, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Spirit Magazine, and contributed the chapter on working with anger for the recent publication Real World Mindfulness for Beginners.

Lama Rod is a founding teacher for the Awaken meditation app that offers meditations and contemplations focused on social change. He is a co-author of Radical Dharma, Talking Race, Love, and Liberation, which explores race in the context of American Buddhist communities. Considered one of the leaders of the next generation of Dharma teachers, Lama Rod Owens, has a blend of formal Buddhist training and life experience that. He holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School where he focused on the intersection of social change, identity, and spiritual practice and was a recipient of the prestigious Hopkins Shareholder Award honoring his work in ministry. Lama Rod is a faculty member for the iBme’s Teacher Training program and is also a faculty member for the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s professional education program in mindfulness for educators and has served as a guest faculty member for the school’s course Mindfulness for Educators. Lama Rod offers talks, retreats and workshops in many countries. Lama Rod is the Guiding Teacher for the Radical Dharma Boston Collective, a teacher with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme), a visiting teacher with Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Brooklyn Zen Center. In this talk we will explore the tradition of Radical Dharma how this tradition supports us in developing radical honesty, compassion, and love to achieve liberation for all beings. Lama Rod shares his personal coming-out story and talks about how coming out. Here’s a sneak peek of Calm’s 6-part Coming Out series by Lama Rod Owens: Coming Out of the Closet. Pre-Order Lama Rod's Newest Book Today & Join the October 24th Celebration and Receive a Sneak Peek of the Book for Free Our era calls for saints who are from this time and place, who speak the language of this moment, and who integrate both social and spiritual liberation.

Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized Lama (Buddhist Teacher) in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. LGBTQ+ employees will find stories, practices, and tools to help navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of moving through the world as authentic and queer.

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