Grief & Revolutionary LoveÂ
in response to Authoritarianism
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A Sacred Conversation with Valarie Kaur & Mirabai Starr
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 | 5pm Pacific | 75 minutes
A gathering for those seeking to transform grief into action and hatred into revolutionary love
Suggested Donation: $25-35 | No one turned away for lack of funds
Recording available to all registrants for one month
In the aftermath of violence, how do we hold both our broken hearts and our fierce determination to create change?
When hate shatters communities and ripples through our collective consciousness, we are left navigating a complex landscape of grief, rage, fear, and an urgent longing for justice. In these moments, we need wisdom that honors the full spectrum of our response—neither rushing past our sorrow nor remaining paralyzed by it.
Revolutionary love offers a path forward—one that embraces grief as a testimony to our interconnection while channeling it toward the courageous work of transformation.
In this heartfelt conversation, spiritual teacher Mirabai Starr and activist Valarie Kaur explore how we process grief and summon Revolutionary Love in the wake of authoritarianism. Together, they reflect on personal loss, collective mourning, and the power of love as a force for justice, healing, and transformation.
This Gathering Is For You If You Are:
- Seeking ways to transform rage and heartbreak into meaningful action
- Wondering how to maintain hope and love in the face of ongoing injustice
- Looking for spiritual practices that support both healing and justice work
- Grieving after witnessing hate crimes or violenceÂ
- Wanting to join a community committed to revolutionary love
- Finding yourself asking: "Is this the darkness of the tomb—or the darkness of the womb?"
Through Our Time Together, You Will:
- Discover practices for tending to your grief
- Learn the foundations of revolutionary love as articulated in Sikh wisdom and other traditions
- Understand how personal healing and social transformation are inextricably linked
- Gain tools for remaining grounded in love while engaging in justice work
- Connect with a community of fellow travelers on the path of healing and transformation
Questions We'll Explore:
How do we love those who have caused harm while standing firm for justice?
What does "revolutionary love" mean in practical terms?
What spiritual practices sustain us in long-term justice work?
How can we honor our grief after hate crimes without being consumed by it?
How do we recognize and nurture the possibilities being born in moments of darkness?
Your Guides for This Journey
Valarie Kaur
 VALARIE KAUR is a renowned civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning documentary filmmaker, educator, faith leader, mother, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project. She became an activist when a Sikh American father in her community was murdered in hate in the aftermath of 9/11. For twenty-five years, Valarie has led visionary campaigns to tell untold stories – at the sites of mass shootings, inside America’s supermax prisons, in the wake of hate violence, and at detention camps from Tijuana to Guantanamo – winning policy change on issues ranging from hate crimes to solitary confinement. The communities she served taught her an essential ingredient to birthing a healthy future: love. Valarie’s speeches have reached millions worldwide, igniting a movement to reclaim love as a force for justice. Last fall, Valarie led the Revolutionary Love Bus Tour, a healing odyssey to 45+ cities across the United States with one message: “Revolutionary Love is the call of our times.”
A daughter of Punjabi Sikh farmers in California, Valarie earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School and holds several honorary doctorates. Her books envision a world rooted in the ethic of love – and show us how to get there. SEE NO STRANGER: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, a #1 LA Times bestseller based on her acclaimed TED talk; her children’s book WORLD OF WONDER; and her new book SAGE WARRIOR, an epic journey into Sikh wisdom and spiritual handbook for apocalyptic times. Today, the Revolutionary Love Project equips people with powerful tools to harness the love ethic for courageous action. Valarie was honored at the White House in the first-ever Uniters Ceremony in 2022, recognizing her as a visionary leader whose work is healing America.
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Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher. Drawing from 20 years of teaching Philosophy and World Religions and a lifetime of practice, Mirabai shares her wisdom worldwide on contemplative living, writing as a spiritual practice, and the transformational power of grief and loss.
She has authored over a dozen books including Wild Mercy, Caravan of No Despair, and renowned translations of sacred literature. Her work bridges the mystical teachings across traditions with a focus on how personal heartbreak can open us to the suffering of the world and catalyze our commitment to alleviating it.
Event Details
Date:Â Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Time: 5pm-6:15pm Pacific Time
Format: Live Online Gathering via Zoom
Suggested Donation: $25-35 (No one turned away for lack of funds)
Recording: Available to all registrants for one month after the event
Please offer what is possible and generous to you to support our team in continuing to share these events.
We're Eager to Hear Your Voice
Participants will be asked to submit questions before the event to inform what our speakers share. You will also have an opportunity to ask follow-up questions during our time together live.
You are an important part of the conversation.
Grief Conversations Happen Every Month of 2025
Join the Wild Heart community in other heart-to-hearts exploring the full spectrum of grief.
These conversations are for those who may be feeling alienated in their grief experience, longing for community and supportive resources. We hope these dialogues with companions on the journey will offer new perspectives and aid in exploring grief as a spiritual process.
Explore All Grief ConversationsA Note from Mirabai & Valarie
Dear Friends,
We recognize how challenging it can be to hold both grief and love in the face of ongoing violence at authoritarianism. We too have struggled with this balance.
In a culture that often responds to hate with either numbing silence or reactive rage, we've each sought practices that allow us to remain present, tender, and powerful—all at once. This is the space we hope to create together in our gathering.
Our own journeys have taught us that honoring our heartbreak while reaching toward revolutionary love can transform both ourselves and our world. By turning toward our pain rather than away, we've discovered within it the seeds of profound connection and committed action.
Valarie's path began when her family friend, Balbir Singh Sodhi, became the first person murdered in a hate crime after 9/11. From that devastating loss emerged her lifelong commitment to reclaiming love as a force for justice.
Mirabai brings her experience as a grief companion and translator of the mystics, having discovered how spiritual practices can sustain us through our darkest moments of witnessing suffering.
Together, we invite you into a conversation that touches the heart of our shared humanity—one that honors the complexity of grief after hate crimes while kindling the courage needed for lasting change.
We hope you'll join us in this sacred space of collective healing.
With care and revolutionary love,
Mirabai & Valarie
