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.

I identify myself with his approach…and commend the author

– His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama

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Let's build a world where belonging replaces bias!

Let's build a world where belonging replaces bias!

Listen to me talk about what’s inside my award-winning, best-selling book, Breaking Bias, and how it can support you and your communities to build a world where belonging replaces bias.

No matter who you are, I wrote Breaking Bias for you.

Breaking Bias is your invitation to embark on a journey that will radically change your experience and show you how you can help reshape our world. It’s a comprehensive and readable guide for anyone who wants to understand and unlearn conscious and unconscious biases.

Whether you’re a teacher or student, engineer or creative, parent or grandparent, this best-selling book is for you. Breaking Bias will train you to become more aware of and transform bias in your daily life and within you—especially beliefs and perceptions you may hold about yourself and others.

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Breaking Bias has got you covered

I wrote my award-winning, best-selling book after decades of research revealing 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. Breaking Bias blends ancient Buddhist wisdom with modern scientific evidence, and shares my signature PRISM® toolkit—a science-backed, somatically informed set of contemplative tools.

I also wrote this book with my students in mind (that’s you, now!)... so it’s full of reflection prompts that invite you (and show you how) to put these tools to use right from the start. This is a book with the potential to transform not just the way you think, but the way you live.

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  • “Anu Gupta gives us a clear view of how bias takes root in society, ranging from the beginnings of written history to the realities of the modern world. He invites us on an inner journey, to take our own beliefs and hold them up to the light. Breaking Bias will radically shift your perspective on the power structures around you while drawing you a new map of the world. This book inspires change and creates a new vision where isolation and exclusion can be replaced by connection and belonging.”

    Deepa Purushothaman, best-selling author of The First, The Few, The Only, executive fellow at Harvard Business School, and retired managing partner at Deloitte

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Breaking Bias is your step-by-step guide, your toolkit, and your notepad for making change…all in one book.

Who is Anu, anyway?

Hi! I’m Anu, and I wrote Breaking Bias as the culmination of my life’s work building a Beloved Community.

Breaking Bias is one of the few books that go beyond examining the history of bias to offer actual training in how to reduce bias, and it’s the only one written by an author with my unique intersectional identities: a gay brown immigrant with Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu roots who is also an American lawyer and scholar of bias with lived experiences that span the globe.

  • “Breaking Bias might be the most important book you read in the 21st century. As sweeping as any Yuval Harari book and as challenging as Paul Hawken’s, Anu Gupta’s powerful and impeccably researched book is a masterclass in understanding our species: why we are the way we are and how to create a better world where belonging replaces bias. Everyone in a position of power, authority, or influence needs this book and it is a required reading for any social entrepreneur or aspiring changemaker anywhere in the world.”

    Susan Davis, founding President & CEO, BRAC USA, co-author, Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know

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