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- Up one level
- African PTSD Relief Welcomes a New President
1/24/2018 - Stepping up from her previous role as PRN Advisory Board member, Sibongile West was elected by the Board of Directors to serve as its next President. A graduate of the University of California Los Angeles and Maharishi University of Management, Sibongile has an extensive corporate background in public relations with Young Communications Group of Los Angeles and has worked as campaign liaison and staffer for California State Senator Holly Mitchell during her tenure in the California State Assembly.
- A Symphony of Silence (interview in Chapter XXIV)
Chapter XXIV in A Symphony of Silence (by George Ellis, 2nd edition, pp. 526-538) presents an interview with Sibongile (who learned TM at age 16 and became a teacher at age 18) and Mpingo Griffin about TMC (a Transcendental Meditation outreach to inner city populations in the 1970s) and the Ethiopian TM teacher Training Course, which boosted the number of African American TM teachers. Mpingo and Sibongile organized the 40th reunion, in 2013.
- Breathe Again with TM
Initiative, spearheaded by Sibongile West, to make Transcendental Meditation more accessible to African Americans
- Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of TMC - a TM outreach to African American communities
Online celebration of 50 years of TM in communities of color.
Sunday, March 17, 2019 - Celebrating the history and achievements of the Transcendental Meditation Centers, Inc (TMC), founded 50 years ago to bring inner peace and enlightenment into communities of color. Through TMC, people in underserved communities throughout the US and internationally were introduced to the TM® technique.