Post by Serena Bian

Hi everyone! I’m listening in for new work opportunities and grateful if you hear of anything. After six years working on loneliness and social isolation with Dr. Vivek Murthy, I’m turning towards work rooted in peacebuilding, justice, conflict transformation, truth and reconciliation. This past year, I’ve been immersed in intergenerational communities of spirit, resistance, and reflective practice—alongside African peacebuilders with the Unyoke Foundation, the National Council of Elders, and comrades at the James and Grace Boggs Center in Detroit. These experiences have affirmed my calling to strengthen the intergenerational infrastructure of our nonviolent movements and peace efforts. I’d love to support the collectives of movement and peacekeeping elders walking alongside young leaders—transforming conflict, nurturing wholeness, and tending to beloved community. To co-create intergenerational sanctuaries of learning, joy, healing, and renewal for frontline peacebuilders, healers, and organizers. I’d also love to support initiatives about truth and reconciliation processes, collective trauma healing, loving-on-people-enough-to-stay-through-conflict, and transformative justice—particularly (though not exclusively) as they relate to gender-based violence, child sexual abuse, and the collective wounds of colonialism and slavery. I bring experience in research, writing, storytelling, facilitation and accompaniment, program design, retreat hosting, convening communities of practice, partnership-building, field-building, and community engagement and weaving. I’m also open to opportunities related to healing justice, spiritual practice, community chaplaincy, arts as peacebuilding, apprenticing to elders, and collective/ancestral healing!