Heeyyy Village! This week, I had an engaging conversation with the lovely Jenée Johnson shares the importance of mindfulness in addressing trauma and promoting racial healing. Jenee emphasizes the need to reclaim joy and humanity through her Right Within Experience program, which aims to empower people of African ancestry through mindfulness. She emphasizes the need for a liberatory lifestyle rooted in self-love and healing, and how this can empower individuals, particularly women, to flourish in their lives.
Jenée Johnson, is an innovator in the fields of mindfulness, trauma and racial healing. She initiated and led the unique effort to bring mindfulness and HeartMath into program practice at the San Francisco Department of Public Health where she recently concluded a 21-year career.
At her core Jenée is a champion and accelerator of human flourishing.
Her work has been featured in various publications, including Mindful Magazine-where she is a regular contributor and where she has been recognized as a leader and agent of change in the mindfulness movement.
Jenée is the founder and curator of The Right Within Experience, a mindfulness immersion program that heals racial harm and reclaims humanity, joy, and wellbeing for people of African ancestry through mind/body practices. Jenée Johnson is a professional co-active coach and certified teacher in mindfulness and emotional intelligence based on the latest neuroscience. She is a certified Heart Math trainer, Emotional Emancipation Circles Facilitator (Association of Black Psychologists) and certified to teach Femme! A meditative movement and wellness modality for women.
Jenée is a keynote speaker, workshop curator, coach, and consultant with Sankofa Holistic Counseling Services and NTU Wellness Center in Oakland, California. She is an ordained minister and Reiki III practitioner.
Jenée is a native New Yorker with Caribbean and Southern roots. She resides in Oakland, California.
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