Holly Nelson-Johnson
Holly Nelson-Johnson teaches Insight Dialogue and Interpersonal Mindfulness and hosts a monthly practice group with Insight Dialogue facilitators-in-training. She participates in the Insight Dialogue Teaching Community Coordinating Team and the Awakening White Awareness cohort. She has studied Insight Dialogue since 2007 with Gregory Kramer and founded Illinois Insight Dialogue. Holly is a Family Nurse Practitioner, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher/trainer. She is committed to engaged practice supporting social justice and bringing Relational Mindfulness into the everyday world. Holly lives in Evanston, IL.
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Events with Holly Nelson-Johnson
Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity ProgramJanuary 31 - March 26, 2026
Watch the Program Video and Hear from the Teachers This eight-week series for white-bodied people integrates the transformative Buddhist practice of Insight Dialogue (relational mindfulness) with anti-racism education. We will explore and co-create anti-racist culture within a dedicated, compassionate community of study and practice. Through present-moment awareness we may better understand, without judgment, the impact of racism and our own cultural conditioning. In addition to being conditioned by culture, history, and power relations, from a Buddhist perspective racism is rooted in greed, hatred, and delusion. Racism is both historical and contemporary. Unless examined, it will continue to cause harm. This…