Where I'll be · where I've been
Upcoming public speaking engagements, and a year-by-year archive of past keynotes, panels, workshops, conferences, and retreats.
Photo: Sará King
On the calendar
Where I'll be in the months ahead. Click through for tickets, registration, or further detail.
April 26 – May 31, 2026 · Virtual
Hosted by Hala Khouri, MA, SEP, E-RYT
A six-week training in trauma-informed, liberation-centered facilitation. Sará teaches the closing session — Fumbling Toward Repair: Integration and Renewal — on Sunday, May 31, 10 AM – 12 PM PT.
About the training →Year by year
Browse by year. Each entry is tagged by format — keynote, panel, workshop, conference, virtual session, retreat.
Selected engagements
Wisdom 2.0 Conference · San Francisco
A keynote introducing the Science of Social Justice to the Wisdom 2.0 audience — the proposition that well-being and social justice are one and the same. Watch the recording →
Oxford Mindfulness · Oxford University
An awareness-based approach to healing intergenerational trauma, presented for the Oxford Mindfulness program.
Collective Trauma Summit · with Dr. Dan Siegel
A summit conversation with Daniel Siegel on the collective nervous system and what interdependence asks of us.
Prison Yoga Project
A workshop on redefining justice as loving-awareness-in-action, presented to the Prison Yoga Project community.
Accessible Yoga Conference · with Rashid Hughes
A conversation with Rashid Hughes on what authentic yoga can mean when it takes accessibility seriously.
The Wellbeing Project · Bilbao, Spain
Faculty role at the Bilbao Wellbeing Summit — an international gathering on the science and practice of collective wellbeing.
CTZNwell Summit
A summit talk introducing SSJ as an emergent framework for the study and practice of well-being.
Sounds True · The Healing Trauma Program · with Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein
Faculty contribution to the Sounds True Healing Trauma Program, in conversation with Jeffrey Rutstein.
Garrison Institute Fellowship Forum
A fellowship forum on SSJ for the Garrison Institute community. Watch the recording →
The Well-Being Project · with Sharon Salzberg, Justin Michael Williams, Parker J. Palmer
A WELLbinar panel on what a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive vision of wellbeing asks of practice and policy.
Embodied Social Justice Summit · The Embody Lab
A summit talk on SSJ within the inaugural Embodied Social Justice Summit.
Embody Lab Trauma Program
Faculty role within the Embody Lab's Trauma Program — embodied practice and pedagogy across a multi-session arc.
Mindfulness for Healthcare Summit · Mindful
A summit talk on the impact of perceived discrimination on marginalized communities and what a new paradigm of community medicine would have to include.
Danish Center for Mindfulness · Aarhus University
A return appearance at the international Aarhus mindfulness conference.
The Lion's Roar Podcast
An episode on hope as a felt phenomenon, recorded for a Buddhist publication's flagship podcast.
International Conference on Mindfulness · University of Aarhus, Denmark
A talk on the internal-work dimension of social justice across academic, philanthropic, corporate, and non-profit sectors.
Science and Nonduality Conference · with Dr. Dan Siegel
A SAND conversation with Dan Siegel on integrating "me" and "we" as a foundation for contemplative practice and collective healing.
Mindsight Institute PEPP MWe Up · with Dan Siegel, Caverly Morgan, Justin Michael Williams
A virtual gathering on awareness practice, identity, and wellbeing in dialogue with three other teachers.
Embodied Wisdom Conversations · with Dr. Peter Levine
An Embody Lab conversation with Peter Levine on hope as embodied phenomenon.
Interpersonal Neurobiology Conference · Lifespan Learning Institute
A faculty lecture on cultivating compassion and wellbeing in the integration of identity, at the UCLA-affiliated IPNB conference.
Science & Non-Duality (SAND) Conference
The first public framing of SSJ as a generative field at the SAND conference.
Learning and the Brain Conference · Stanford / UC Berkeley
A conference talk on trauma, learning, and mindful healing in urban populations.
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For event hosts
If you are organizing a keynote, a panel, a workshop, a retreat, or a longer engagement that would benefit from this body of work, I would be honored to be in conversation. Speaking fees are differentiated for non-profits and corporations.
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