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Eisha Mason has practiced as a licensed practitioner and spiritual therapist of more than 35 years. She is a “master practitioner” of New Thought/Ageless Wisdom, teacher of practitioner studies at the Agape International Spiritual Center and co-founder of CommonUnity, Agape's community service ministries. As a teacher, executive coach, activist and published author, she focuses on the intersections of spirituality, nonviolence, social justice and the “soul work of social change.”
Eisha founded The Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence after directing the first Season for Nonviolence campaign in Los Angeles in 1998. She co-founded Soulforce Trainings, Acts of Power: The Liberation of the African American Soul training, and Community Healing Forum which assists affected communities in responding to loss and trauma.
For 9 years, Eisha hosted The Morning Review and later, The Way Forward radio programs on KPFK (90.7FM) radio. She is a contributor to the books, How to Stop the Next War Now and Together We Are One: Honoring Our Diversity and Celebrating Our Connection. She is also co-author of 64 Ways to Practice Nonviolence Curriculum and Resource Guide. Red Door, her first book of poetry, was published in February, 2023.
During the U.S. War on Terror and while serving as an Associate Regional Director of the U.S. Southwest Region of the American Friends Service Committee, she spearheaded the campaign to pass a resolution in the California Legislature that would challenge the license of any California medical personnel participating in U.S. torture It was the only successful legislative initiative in the country during the War on Terror..
Now retired from AFSC, Eisha is busy as a spiritual therapist and executive coach. She continues to write, teach, and facilitate for social justice organizations.
Eisha Mason is the recipient of the New Thought Walden Award for Social and Environmental Justice (2021) and the the Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace’s Courageous Peacemaker Award (2013).
Her teachers: Rev. Homer Johnson, Michael Beckwith and Nirvana Gayle, Dr. Dan Morgan, Rev. James Lawson, the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, Ron and Mary Hulnick of the University of Santa Monica.
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