Queer Grief: Honoring Our Ancestors, Trancestors, and Our Own Losses | with Tony Pham (Butterfly) and Tiff Pham

FACILITATOR BIOS

Tony Pham (Butterfly) (he/they) is a heritage Buddhist, facilitator and healer that occupies the intersection of queer & BIPOC identities. Tony is certified in Compassion Cultivation Training © (co-created by Thupten Jinpa at Stanford), teaching compassion and meditation at Tibet House US. He is a 2nd generation Vietnamese American whose parents arrived in the United States as refugees from war. Tony goes by Butterfly in spiritual spaces where they steward practices rooted in compassion, indigeneity, and sacred lineages. He is an advanced student of Lama Rod Owens (Vajrayana/Tibetan Buddhism). They are also an alumnus of the East Bay Meditation Center’s trauma informed mindfulness program & INELDA's death doula training.

Butterfly offered a Dharma talk and guided meditation about compassion at the The Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit 2023. Tony's death work was highlighted and referenced in the book, "So Sorry for Your Loss," by Dina Gachman. He now resides in Brooklyn (unceded Canarsie/Munsee Lenape land). For more information, please visit tonyopham.com.

Tiff Pham (she/they) is a second-generation Vietnamese-American, queer, empath residing on unceded Ohlone land. She is a conscious relationship coach, mediator, and energy medicine practitioner at Path and Present. Tiff enjoys working with tenderhearted humans, people-pleasers, and fellow QTBIPOC folks to set boundaries, build confidence, and communicate with clarity. She is a certified coach (CPCC, ACC) and holds her Master Certification in Intuition Medicine®. In her free time, she enjoys live music, meditation, traveling, and hiking with her partner Laura, and their staffy/lab, Luna. To learn more information, please visit pathxpresent.com.