Welcome to Episode 7, Beginnings. This episode celebrates 12 years of Wake Up London; looking at the early days.

We have a long conversation with founder members Elina and Nick and short sharing with Katrina, Lucy, Ethan and Doran about their experiences of 12 years ago and seeing the community grow since then.

We have a community announcement about celebrating with us on Saturday night (29th October)

We also have a sharing from Kareem about spiritual friendship, monastics and Thich Nhat Hanh’s legacy and a reading from Lucy from one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s books about Community

Music this episode comes from Little Earth (aka Elina Pen) and Joe Reilly.

This new episode from the Wake Up London Podcast takes a journey with some voices from the BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Colour) Community in the UK Plum Village Sangha.

We have a long conversation with artist Melissa James talking about her life as a singer/songwriter and a singing facilitator with a passion for racial awareness and justice. We have a 3-way sharing between Anh, Renuka and Kareem about their experience of Colours of Compassion and also one from Rehena who also talks about founding Buddhist inter-traditional BIPOC centred space, Buddhists Across Traditions.

Music this episode comes from Melissa James and Ha Down who also brings us our reading this time on Thich Nhat’s Hanh’s mantras on love.

plumvillage.uk/practice-groups/find-a-group/colours-of-compassion/

buddhistsacrosstraditions.org

melissa-james.com

youtube.com/c/hadown11