Upcoming Classes/Groups
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2025 Class Offerings
RESILIENCE TO RESIST
These times are disorienting, overwhelming, and often exhausting.
Maybe you’ve found yourself asking, "What do I do?" and feeling paralyzed, unsure of how to respond to the onslaught of horrifying policies.
Or maybe you’re already deep in action, but you need more space to ground into nourishment and resilience.
Resilience To Resist is an answer to the call of these times, and I’m here to invite you to participate.
It’s a 1-hour weekly online group designed to help you move out of numbness, overwhelm, and depletion, and into action, vitality, and connection in ways that work for your life.
So many of us are deeply needing to reground, recenter, and reconnect—not just for personal wellness, but to have the resilience individually and collectively to advocate for what matters to us.
Whether you’re a seasoned activist or someone who has never engaged politically but wants to start, this space is for you.
In our hour together each week, we will:
Ground for 30 minutes in mindfulness, somatic, relational, and Work That Reconnects practices to help us cultivate resilience and presence.
Review a 10-minute political recap of key analyses from the week, helping us make sense of unfolding events. This will include 1) framing the actions of the Trump administration, and 2) strategies from movement leaders* to address them.
Engage with a 10-minute action plan where we’ll review a menu of 8-10 curated actions from movement leaders*—concrete, accessible ways to show up, no matter your experience level or capacity.
You’re invited to come exactly as you are. Whether you're feeling fired up or completely drained, you’ll leave more resourced, connected, and ready to take action.
Meeting Schedule
There will be two weekly groups to choose from:
Group 1: Wednesdays at 12 noon Pacific — starting Wednesday, April 9th
Group 2: Wednesdays at 5pm Pacific — starting Wednesday, April 9th
To learn more about the group, pricing, and guidelines, just click the sign up button below.
Meet Your Facilitator
I’m Anna-Brown Griswold (she/her, white identified) — trauma psychotherapist, mindfulness teacher, activist, and mother—committed to weaving healing, justice, and presence into all that I do. Living on Coast Salish/Duwamish land, known as Seattle, I have spent the last twenty-five years exploring how to integrate the transformative power of meditation, the depth of psychotherapy, and a strong foundation in anti-racist practice to challenge and dismantle oppression. My work is an ongoing experiment in bridging personal and collective liberation.
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Spring Mindful Self-Compassion Class Series IN PERSON at UW
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion to enhance our capacity for emotional wellbeing. MSC practices strengthen our ability to meet life's difficulties with kindness, care, and wisdom, allowing us to relate wholeheartedly to others and be more authentically ourselves. Research shows that self-compassion is strongly associated with greater emotional wellbeing, less anxiety, depression, and stress, maintenance of healthy habits such as diet and exercise, and more satisfying personal relationships.
This empirically-supported 8-week live online course is offered through the UW Center for Child and Family Wellbeing. No experience necessary! Sliding scale and scholarship opportunities are available.
Course Details
When
Dates: 4/23/2025 to 6/11/2025, half day retreat on 5/31/25 9:30a-12:30p
Time: Wednesdays 4PM - 6PM (PST)
Location
Kincaid Hall Room 202
3751 W. Stevents Way NE
Open to
Adults 18 and older
Cost
$250 - $500
Instructors: Joel Grow, PhD & Hanna Kreiner, LICSW
Register
Here is a link with class details and registration information: https://ccfwb.uw.edu/event/spring2025msc/
April 2nd Free drop-in meditation to learn more about MSC:
We will also be offering a free online drop-in meditation on April 2nd from 6-7PM for anyone interested in learning more about Mindful Self-Compassion: https://ccfwb.uw.edu/event/april2025dropin/
Instructors
Joel Grow, Ph.D.
Joel Grow, Ph.D. Joel is a clinical psychologist at the Seattle Mindfulness Center and a member of the clinical faculty at the University of Washington Department of Psychology. He offers evidence-supported treatment that incorporates self-compassion, mindfulness, and acceptance-based approaches. He was a member of the UW research team that created Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP), an evidence-based aftercare program for addictive behavior problems. He remains active in the delivery and evaluation of MBRP. He has facilitated numerous groups in various settings and has conducted therapist training workshops both in the US and abroad. He also provides clinical supervision to UW psychology graduate students.
Hanna G. Kreiner, LICSW
Hanna is a licensed psychotherapist, author, and teacher of mindfulness and self-compassion. She began her career researching the medical outcomes of individual and group psychotherapy on autoimmune disease. Inspired by the meaningful improvements people experienced emotionally and physically, she pursued her Masters in Social Welfare to provide mind-body therapies directly to those in need. Over a decade later, mindfulness is at the core of Hanna‘s work providing integrative psychotherapy at Seattle Mindfulness Center, teaching Mindful Self-Compassion and Finding C.A.L.M., and offering mindfulness programming to corporate and group clients. She has also authored a book, Self-Compassion Journal for First-Time Moms, to engage new parents in self-compassion practices tailored to their experience. Hanna is passionate about helping others through all of life’s stages and challenges with more ease and equanimity.
DEVELOPING A VAST HEART IN TURBULENT TIMES: EXPLORING THE FOUR BRAHMAVIHARAS THROUGH INSIGHT DIALOGUE
ONLINE CLASS
Meeting Dates: Saturdays, April 26; May 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31
Meeting Time: 12:30 to 2:30 PM ET
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compatible for time zones in the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Led by Nolitha Tsengiwe and Anna-Brown Griswold
Join us for a transformative 6-week journey into the Four Brahmaviharas—loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—through the practice of Insight Dialogue. This program invites us to explore the path of opening the heart and cultivating inner strength through both silent and relational meditation. We will explore the traditional teachings on the near and far obstacles to the Four Immeasurables, which helps us refine our experience of the precious four qualities. Often the near and far obstacles to these qualities* arise based on conditioned tendencies, trauma histories, and systemic power dynamics; we will provide guidance in attuning to these aspects of experience.
Rooted in the power of relationality, Insight Dialogue foregrounds the profound interconnection at the heart of this practice, offering a deeply supportive space in which to integrate and embody these teachings. Together, we will create a container to contemplate, practice, and develop our capacity for true metta, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.
This program is for anyone seeking to integrate mindfulness, relational wisdom, and the heart qualities of the path. No prior experience with Insight Dialogue is necessary.
Program Format
We will meet weekly for 2 hours. The format will include brief dharma talks, silent meditation, and relational meditation using Insight Dialogue.
Attendance and Participation
Weekly attendance is expected, with camera on for the sake of the relational practice.
*Metta/loving-kindness: the near obstacle is greed or attachment, the far obstacle is anger. Karuna/compassion: the near obstacle is sorrow or grief, the far obstacle is cruelty or the wish to harm. Mudita/sympathetic joy: the near obstacle is frivolous delight, the far obstacles are jealousy and boredom. Upekkha/equanimity: the near obstacle is indifference, the far obstacles are aversion and greed.