Fresh "Lev" White

Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, mediation, and diversity training as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. He works with individuals, households, and professional teams. As a certified coach, and professional trainer, Lev has offered over 400 diversity trainings in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond. He earned his coaching and leadership certifications through the Co-Active Training Institute. Lev is also mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership and DPP programs. Lev offers secular mindfulness, and non-secular meditation in addition to Spiritual Counseling, mentoring, and talks on Self-Compassion in corporate, spiritual, or other private settings. Lev credits their ability to reach diverse audiences to his years growing up in multi-ethnic communities in New York.

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Events with Fresh "Lev" White

Creating Joy in Community: a Retreat for Gender Expansive Communities
July 16 - 20, 2025

A SILENT MEDITATION RETREAT Please join our Mindfulness Retreat for Trans, Gender Nonconforming, Genderqueer, Non-binary and all Gender Expansive communities This 4-night retreat will be a space grounded in self-care and compassion, and held in community, to support our healing and resilience at this time in this world. We will offer meditation, mindful movement, and heart-centered practices based on Buddhist principles. Silence will be gently balanced with small and large group discussions. We will cultivate and deepen connections that support our resilience and joy. This retreat, grounded in the Dharma, is open to all practitioners, and is available for all…

Belonging and Thriving: Being Your Own Good Friend
December 2 - 7, 2025

This in-person retreat is open to both beginning and experienced practitioners who self-identify as LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, and beyond) This LGBTQIA+  affinity retreat includes meditation, music, movement, community connection, mindful self-compassion, and more. Please join us for a place of refuge, with a focus on belonging, self-compassion and mindfulness. We will cultivate our capacity to be our own good friends. We’ll experience meditation, music, movement, silence, community discussions and more. Learn and practice foundational skills to bring awareness and warmth to ourselves and others. Compassion and self-compassion involve responding to difficult moments with kindness, empathy…

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