Mental Health, Cultural Diversity, and Wellbeing
The 2024 Breaking Bias® Summit & Book Launch
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July 9 - September 10, 2024
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Anu Gupta
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Immediate lifetime access to all 10 Breaking Bias: Mental Health, Cultural Diversity, and Wellbeing talks with spiritual leaders, artists, CEOs, activists, and other bridge-builders.
Immediate lifetime access to 10+ Bonus Conversations on mental health, cultural diversity, and wellbeing with leading thinkers and change-makers.
Be the first to receive Anu’s book, Breaking Bias, with a foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, on September 17.
Access to BMA’s proprietary PRISM Handouts on Mindfulness and Stereotype Replacement.
Lifetime access to 15+ exclusive resources and discounts from our speakers – like Sah D’Simone, Sharon Salzberg, Dan Harris, Tara Brach, and more!
Total Value $1999 just $199!
Immediate lifetime access to all 10 Breaking Bias: Mental Health, Cultural Diversity, and Wellbeing talks with spiritual leaders, artists, CEOs, activists, and other bridge-builders.
Immediate lifetime access to 10+ Bonus Conversations on mental health, cultural diversity, and wellbeing with leading thinkers and change-makers.
Be the first to receive Anu’s book, Breaking Bias, with a foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, on September 17.
Immediate lifetime access to BMA’s 2022 Breaking Bias Summit with 12 dynamic talks and 8 workshops on somatic abolitionism, community organizing, healing internalized bias, wellbeing at work, dismantling systemic racism, health equity, restorative justice, and storytelling ($199 value).
All BMA’s proprietary PRISM Handouts: Mindfulness, Stereotype Replacement, Individuation, pRosocial Behavior, and Perspective-Taking.
Lifetime access to 15+ exclusive resources and discounts from our speakers – like Sah D’Simone, Sharon Salzberg, Dan Harris, Tara Brach, and more!
Total Value $2999 just $299!
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Praise for Breaking Bias
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His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
The highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism
“I commend the author and hope this book will help people to come closer to one another through breaking biases on the basis of secondary differences like race, religion, rich or poor that divide us.”
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Dan Harris
New York Times best-selling Author of 10% Happier and host of the Ten Percent Happier Podcast
“Your biases can hurt other people, but they can also hurt you. They can damage your relationships and degrade your decision-making. But the good news is: they’re not your fault, and they can be addressed. Anu is the perfect guide to transform all biases in the modern world.”
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Valarie Kaur
Best-selling author of See No Stranger and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project
“Masterful, practical, and wise, Breaking Bias is essential reading….Learn how to dismantle systems of oppression, embrace the worth of all beings, and build a world of belonging...This book will inspire you to a life of Revolutionary Love. Anu Gupta is a guiding light, and this book is his radiant offering.”
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Tara Brach, PhD
Best-selling author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
“Evolving beyond the biases that separate us is the core task of humanity if we are to meet the existential challenges that face us…Breaking Bias offers a powerful set of mindfulness-based tools to help us dismantle conscious and unconscious bias and repair the horrific harms it has caused. This timely book is a beacon of hope in our precious, hurting world.”
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Jack Kornfield
Author of A Path With Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
“Learning to see and understand bias is deeply important for our world, especially now. Breaking Bias is a valuable and illuminating curriculum that will help not only with understanding bias, but also ending it.”
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Sharon Salzberg
Best-selling author of Lovingkindness and Real Life
“Compassionate, vulnerable, and mind-expanding, Breaking Bias is a powerful guidebook to deepen our understanding of bias and how to break the cycle…Anu sparks individual awakening for collective change. This book is an invitation to join the movement towards a world celebrating our diversity and honoring our inherent belonging.”
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Rev. Jacqui Lewis, PhD
Senior Minister for Public Theology and Transformation at Middle Collegiate Church and author of Fierce Love
“Breaking Bias uniquely captured me and would not let me go…Anu's kindness accompanies the reader on a journey informed by the depth and breadth of his experience, research, wisdom, compassion and hope…A must read for all who yearn for a more just society.”
Breaking Bias is the most important work of the 21st century!
Join the 2024 Breaking Bias Summit to:
Understand Bias: Learn what bias is and how it affects people. Discover ways to recognize bias in yourself and others.
Embrace Diversity: Explore the beauty of different backgrounds and perspectives. Learn how to appreciate and respect what makes each person unique.
Create Fairness: Gain practical tools and techniques to promote fairness and equality. Discover how small actions can lead to big changes.
Build Inclusive Communities: Find out how to create spaces where everyone feels welcome and valued. Learn the importance of listening, empathy, and collaboration.
Take Action: Feel inspired to make a difference. Get involved in initiatives that challenge bias and promote justice and equity.
Celebrate Progress: Celebrate milestones through a historical lens while learning tools to enable inclusive communities and workplaces.
Evolve Human Consciousness: Purify your hearts and minds from scarcity, hatred, greed, fear, and domination toward abundance, compassion, generosity, understanding, and cooperation.
What sets the Breaking Bias Summit apart?
Rooted in PRISM® Tools: Perspective-Taking, pRosocial Behaviors, Individuation, Stereotype Replacement, and Mindfulness – tools that help strengthen curiosity, compassion, joy, mindfulness, love, kindness, abundance, resilience, self-care, hope, optimism, and spirituality to meet the challenges of our times.
Psychological Safety: We cultivate an atmosphere where people feel safe expressing their truth and take risks so we can learn to build bridges across differences.
Playfulness: We embrace creativity and curiosity while remembering our human inheritance of joy in exploring new ideas and perspectives
Shame-Free: We foster a shame-free environment that allows participants to explore challenging topics without fear of judgment or stigma.
Science-backed: We are grounded in rigorous evidence-based methodologies proven to be effective and reliable in supporting inner and outer healing.
Trauma-Informed: Our trauma-informed practices recognize the profound impact of past experiences, guiding our interactions with compassion and understanding.
Action-Oriented: We don't just discuss ideas; we turn them into action. Through empowering conversations, real-world case studies, and hands-on resources, you'll gain practical skills to create tangible change in your community.
Intersectional Perspective: Our summit acknowledges that bias intersects with various aspects of identity, such as class, ethnicity, religion, race, gender, sexuality, and ability. By addressing these intersections, we ensure that our solutions are inclusive and comprehensive.
Collaboration: Join a collaborative environment where everyone's voice is heard and valued. Through open dialogue and collective problem-solving, we amplify the impact of individual efforts.
Experience the difference at the Breaking Bias Summit—where dialogue turns into action and change becomes reality.
Inspiring Leaders and Practical Resources Await You
At the 2024 Breaking Bias Summit, you’ll hear inspiring stories from spiritual leaders, artists, CEOs, activists, and other bridge-builders who have challenged bias and promoted inclusivity.
Through these conversations, you'll also learn about the PRISM® Toolkit. Created by Anu, the PRISM Tools use the science of neuroplasticity to transform your mental habits of stereotyping, assumptions, and unskillful reactions.
And there’s more! Register today to get worksheets, poetry, art, meditation guides, and access to our library of tools to help you transform how you think, engage with others, and build a world where belonging replaces bias.
Spiritual revolutionary, mystic, artist, award-winning filmmaker, and the internationally best-selling author
#1 New York Times best-selling author, podcaster, and co-founder of the Ten Percent Happier meditation app
Psychologist, best-selling author, and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C.
Meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times best-selling author
Psychotherapist, author, founder, and director of The Solution Focused Universe
Host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound and the author of Poetry Unbound; 50 Poems to Open Your World
International influencer, Buddhist diva, and best-selling author
Writer, motivational speaker, and founder of Nomadness Travel Tribe and Nomadness TV
Meditation teacher, DEI expert, and author who teaches about possibilities of belonging
Writer, teacher, and author of four prize-winning books of poetry
Award-winning internationally renowned poet and Young People’s Poet Laureate (2019-2022) for the U.S.
Critically acclaimed poet, artist, and founder of Strive Till I Rise and People Not Things
Holistic business and career coach, proud immigrant and chronic illness advocate
Internationally recognized curiosity expert, speaker, and the award-winning author
Multidisciplinary artist, visual journalist, filmmaker, and professor
Social justice lawyer, organizer, spiritual advisor, most popularly seen on Season 5 of Queer Eye
Pakistani American artist and psychologists who works at the intersection of belonging and otherness
Writer, speaker, photographer, and author of Anna May Wong’s biography, the only one written by a Chinese American woman
Humanitarian, story coach, and Co-Founder of the Million Person Project
Mental health therapist, clinical educator, researcher, internationally engaged consultant, and author
Past Attendees Say
Deluxe Ticket Bonus: About the 2022 Breaking Bias Summit
Your Deluxe Ticket includes immediate lifetime access to all 2024 Breaking Bias Summit content, but you’ll also get immediate lifetime access to BMA’s 2022 Breaking Bias Summit! The Summit features 12 dynamic talks and 8 workshops on somatic abolitionism, community organizing, healing internalized bias, wellbeing at work, dismantling systemic racism, health equity, restorative justice, and storytelling ($199 value).
The 2022 Summit was built in the early days of writing Breaking Bias and responded to Anu’s and students’ yearning to move past problems into solutions. BE MORE with Anu designed the Summit to go deeper into topics of race and equity using our signature shame-free, compassionate approach to learning.
The 2022 Summit welcomed experts and practitioners who offered 8 workshops framed by two keynotes and spiritual invocations. We’d love to welcome you into all of it!
Keynote Speakers
Systemic Racism
Dr Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
Chief Equity Officer & Senior Vice President, American Medical Association
Mindfulness
Roxanne Dault
Meditation, Dharma, and Mindfulness Teacher
Workshop Presenters
Opening Blessing
Elvina Charley
Educator & Indigenous Meditation Teacher
Opening Invocation
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
Senior Minister, Middle Church
Breaking Bias: Powering DEIB and Antiracism Efforts with Mindfulness
Anu Gupta
Founder & CEO, BE MORE with Anu
The Science of Social Justice and the Four Pillars of R.E.S.T
Dr. Sará King
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
& Rashid Hughes
Restorative Justice Specialist
Using Restorative Approaches to Transform the Culture of Policing and Prisons in the US
Alison McCrary
Social Justice Movement Lawyer
Storytelling in Media & Entertainment
Susan Jin Davis
Chief Impact Officer, Al Roker Entertainment
Inner Activism
Janna Bilski
Investments Team, Ford Foundation
Building an Antiracist Law School, Legal Academy, and Legal Profession
TaWanda Hunter Stallworth
Program Manager, Antiracist Development Institute, Penn State Dickinson Law
Breath, Eyes, Memory: How Mindfulness Helps Advance Racial Justice and Protect Our Collective Mental Health While We Pursue It
Dr. Wizdom Powell
Chief Social Impact & Diversity Officer, Headspace Health
Decolonizing Therapy and Mental Health: A Movement Toward Individual and Collective Healing
Helen H Park
Anti-oppressive, Healing-centered Family and Couple Therapist
ABOUT BREAKING BIAS: WHERE STEREOTYPES AND PREJUDICES COME FROM—AND THE SCIENCE-BACKED METHOD TO UNRAVEL THEM (2024, Hay House)
No matter who you are, Breaking Bias is for you.
Anu wrote Breaking Bias after decades of research revealing that breaking bias is the key to unlocking multiple crises in our world—from racism, sexism, classism, and other -isms to burnout, loneliness, and climate change. Breaking Bias blends ancient Buddhist wisdom with modern scientific evidence, and shares my signature PRISM® toolkit—a science-backed, somatically informed set of contemplative tools.
He also wrote this book with his students in mind (that’s you, now!)... so it’s full of reflection prompts that invite you (and show you how) to put these tools to use right from the start. This is a book with the potential to transform not just the way you think, but the way you live.
