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

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Please join this Reimagine and Tibet House US gathering for the LGBTQIA+ community to see and be seen. The online program will open with agreements, followed by some education, meditation, and breathing as a foundation for peer-to-peer sharing in a safer space. This is a dedicated container by and for self-identified LGBTQIA+ people.

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

7:00-8:00 pm ET

Online

Free | $10 Suggested Donation

Please join this Reimagine and Tibet House US gathering for the LGBTQIA+ community to see and be seen. The online program will open with agreements, followed by some education, meditation, and breathing as a foundation for peer-to-peer sharing in a safer space. This is a dedicated container by and for self-identified LGBTQIA+ people.

During LGBTQ+ History Month, this is an opportunity to reflect on how for all of our community’s ongoing struggles, we wouldn’t be who and where we are today without the queer ancestors and trancestors that have come before us. Let us come together to honor and grieve them in a 60-minute container.

Facilitators will offer mindfulness and breathing practices for grounding prior to opening up space to invite in the individual and collective experiences of LGBTQIA+ community members. Our facilitators will draw from practices such as Buddhism while also weaving in queer liberation and grief work.

While having cameras on is welcome for cultivating a stronger sense of community, it is OK for videos to be turned off as we want to respect each individual's personal process.

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.

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