Breaking Bias with Anu Gupta

Thursday Night book club 

Breaking Bias with Anu Gupta

 7th November  7:30pm - 8:30 (GMT) 

Cost £20

Anu Gupta is an educator, lawyer, scientist, and the founder and CEO

of BE MORE with Anu, an education technology benefit corporation

that trains professionals across corporate, nonprofit, and government

sectors to advance DEIB and wellness by breaking bias.

His work has reached 300+ organisations training more than 80,000

Professionals are impacting over 30 million lives. As a gay immigrant of

colour, he came to the work of breaking bias after almost ending his life

due to lifelong experiences with racism, homophobia, and

Islamophobia. The realisation that bias can be unlearned helped lead

him out of that dark point and inspired a lifelong mission to build a

global movement for social healing based on principles of mindfulness

and compassion. A peer-reviewed author, he has written and spoken

extensively, including on the TED stage, the Oprah Conversation, Fast

Company, Newsweek, and Vogue Business.

Anu is a student of Buddhism and Kriya Yoga and a trained meditation and yoga teacher. 

He has spent over 10,000 hours on retreat at IMS, Spirit Rock, and Dharma communities 

in the US and Asia. He is a graduate of IMS/BCBS's Exploring the Heart of Freedom and 

Spirit Rock's Mindful Meditation and Yoga Teacher Training (MYMT) programs.

ABOUT THE BOOK – BREAKING BIAS

For readers of Caste, Sapiens, and The Dawn of Everything, a page-turning deep-

dive into how bias is learned—plus a strikingly original and highly effective set

of tools to un-learn it.

Imagine a world without bias. A world where all human beings can truly be just as they

are and unleash their full potential. Take a moment to imagine how you feel in such a

world—not what you think about it, or whether you believe it's possible, but how you feel.

This is the proposition that opens Breaking Bias. It’s your invitation to embark on a

journey that will radically change your experience and show you how you, in turn, can help

reshape our world.

Blending ancient Buddhist wisdom with modern scientific evidence, Anu takes us on a

deep-time journey to explore human identities and identity-based biases and to recognize

that breaking bias is the key to unlocking multiple crises in our world—from racism,

sexism, classism, and other -isms to burnout, loneliness, and climate change. Then he

offers his signature PRISM toolkit—a science-backed, somatically informed set of

contemplative tools—to help us dismantle learned bias within ourselves and in the world

around us, moment by moment, with probing questions and writing prompts throughout

the book that invites us to put these tools to use right from the start.