Feb 23, 2023

Through her own spiritual exploration, Valerie Brown found hope and courage when facing life’s devasting challenges and loss. Yvette’s discussion with Valerie, a Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher, facilitator and executive coach, seeks to answer or provide a guide to answering, “Who am I?” and “What is my...

Oct 20, 2022

Through her own spiritual exploration, Valerie Brown found hope and courage when facing life’s devasting challenges and loss. Yvette’s discussion with Valerie, a Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher, facilitator and executive coach, seeks to answer or provide a guide to answering, “Who am I?” and “What is my...

Oct 18, 2018

When Valerie passed the Bar exam in 1983, she had two goals: make money and get out of Brooklyn. Everything changed when she attended a 1995 retreat with monk, poet and activist Thich Nhat Hanh: after that, she left a twenty-year career as an attorney-lobbyist to pursue mindfulness, yoga and...