Kate Johnson

Hi, I’m Kate.
I’m a writer, Buddhist meditation teacher and mama, and I lead courses and retreats integrating meditation, restorative movement, justice, creativity, and the practice of wise relationships.
I’m also the author of the book **Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World**

Introducing Radical Friendship

A case for friendship as a radical practice of love, courage and trust, and a path that paves the way for profound social change.

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Movement was my first mindfulness practice. As a kid I found refuge anywhere I could align my mind, heart, and body with sound while moving through space. I was born and raised in Chicago, but my love of dance eventually landed me in New York City, where I earned a BFA in Dance from the Alvin Ailey School/Fordham University. I worked as a modern dancer (read: waitress) for the better part of a decade before attending NYU to earn a MA in Performance Studies …
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Praise for Radical Friendship

With freshness, clarity and passion, Kate Johnson shows how attending to the quality of our friendships can heal and free our heart. You’ll find Kate to be a wise guide and a trustworthy, caring friend on the path. Please read and share with others: Our world needs a revolution of true friendliness!

- TARA BRACH, AUTHOR OF RADICAL COMPASSION
This is a thoughtful and compassionate exploration of the meaning of friendship and its practice in today’s confused and contentious world. Basing her exposition on an ancient Buddhist text, Kate Johnson offers us many precious nuggets of practical wisdom that can enrich our spiritual life, deepen personal relationships, and sustain us in ways that are both profoundly meaningful and fulfilling.

- VEN. BHIKKHU BODHI
Radical Friendship connects the Buddhist teachings into universal human experience by unraveling the narrow-bandwidth of white supremacy within Western-interpreted and colonized dharma. Radical Friendship is a radical teacher because it illuminates that which is in front of us, by lifting veils of privilege, oppression, and fragility (greed, hatred, delusion). Radical Friendship invites and allows the dharma to permeate into all of our diverse lives that matter.

- LARRY YANG, AUTHOR OF AWAKENING TOGETHER, THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE OF INCLUSIVITY AND COMMUNITY
A skilled, natural storyteller and Teacher, Kate generously shares her humanity and journey of fears, tears and awakening as a mixed race Dharma student, activist and Teacher. This is a rare opportunity to receive the gift of deeper understanding of a multilayered, heartbreaking and heartwarming journey accompanied by integrated wisdom.

- GINA SHARPE, BUDDHIST TEACHER