In honor of the National Day of Racial Healing, join us to make new connections, share personal stories, and practice the art of deep listening. Our circle facilitators are located in Malibu, California and Charleston, South Carolina. We invite everyone around the country and globe to this virtual community-building experience.
This is a highly participatory program. Please come ready to engage!
Hosted by the Social Justice Racial Equity Collaborative of Charleston and the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Centers of Pepperdine University and The Citadel. Learn more and register here:
https://thesophiainstitute.org/racial-healing-circles/
6:00-7:30pm Eastern / 3:00-4:00pm Pacific
Since 2017, the Courageous Conversation Global Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, has been forming partnerships with colleges/universities, non-profit organizations, and corporations and helping people advance racial equity through authentic, sustained, dialogue within and between racial groups. Our mission is to elevate racial consciousness through interracial healing. We practice this healing through training and development to deepen our collective understanding of racial justice. Through this practice, the Foundation promotes and supports communities, locally and globally, in achieving racial equity and social justice.
We do our work via three programming areas. Our Courageous Equity Leadership Fellows Program identifies, supports and provides training to college students; on a yearly basis, our Fellows create and facilitate racial healing events on their college campuses. Through our Racial Healing and Transformation Community Groups Program, we provide “wraparound” support and training deep within communities through seminars; community members begin to learn skills and tools to engage across and within racial lines. Through Media Campaigns with our partner ad agencies, we push out campaigns throughout the year that spark courageous conversations and racial justice advocacy via media platforms.
On January 16, join the Courageous Conversation Global Foundation team for a compelling intergenerational conversation around Driving While Black in America as we explore the following ongoing reality: In America, Black drivers are 20% more likely to be stopped and searched by police, and 3x more likely to be killed by officers during encounters. From microaggressions to murder, routine traffic stops are anything but routine when you're Black.
During our time together, you will be introduced to our groundbreaking Driving While Black Media Campaign and hear from the creators, Anthony O’Neill, EVP/Executive Creative Director, and Rony Castor, Group Creative Director. Our College Fellows will enhance the conversation by lifting the voices of Gen Z as they share their stories and perspectives.
By engaging in conversation, we hope to promote racial healing, ignite action and inspire people to get involved in transforming the problematic relationship shared between police and Black folks in America.
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84633485214?pwd=eWFYWnNDMjFldzlCQnlaNmtMa21CUT09
Meeting ID: 846 3348 5214
Passcode: 387765
Using a conversation guide created by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for this type of event, participants will be invited to have conversations to share their thoughts, experiences, and hopes for racial healing.
The format is simple. The possibilities are powerful.
Let us practice listening to each other, celebrating and seeing difference, and create opportunities to develop positive relationships with people different than ourselves.
This event is open to anyone with a positive intention to create racial healing.
This is a mixed gender event, friends and family, all are welcome.
Four panelists will engage in a dialogue focused on the theme of the program in 2024, HowWe Heal. The panelists are the CEO of the Capital Region YMCA, a pastor, professor of psychology, an expert in leadership and race equity and a pastor and founder of a nonprofit focused on healing. I will facilitate the discussion. I am a licensed social worker, retired from State Service, a certified practitioner of Healing Centered Engagement and in facilitating race equity learning exchanges.
Join us to honor Dr. King's dream of a world free from racial and economic injustice. This conversation between Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and best-selling MLK biographer Jonathan Eig, hosted by Anne Mosle of the Aspen Institute, will explore connections between values, leadership, and social impact. What lessons of the past can guide us to ensure prosperity and well-being pass from generation to generation? How can we create a world — one Dr. King imagined in his lifetime — where all children and families are respected, valued, and encouraged to achieve their dreams?
This special event will live-streamed. Register at: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/in-conversation-with-anne-mosle-honoring-dr-king/.
The Region 8 Community Action Partnership / RPIC will be holding a virtual racial healing circle as part of national events talking place on the 2024 National Day of Racial Healing. Join facilitators from Community Action Partnership of Utah and Colorado Community Action Association as we deepen relationships with one another, listen to each other's stories, and value our shared humanity.
WHAT IS RACIAL HEALING?
The W.K Kellog Foundation defines Racial Healing as:
"Racism affects all of us where we live, learn, work and play. We experience these effects when we take our children to school, when we apply for jobs, when we try to rent or buy a home, when we shop, when we interact with the police and more. Racism can affect us both as individuals and within our systems and institutions. It affects our ability to know, relate to and value one another. Systemically, it can be one of the biggest obstacles to solving the challenges we face in our communities because it often keeps us apart.
Racial healing recognizes the need to acknowledge and tell the truth about past wrongs created
by individual and systemic racism and address the present consequences. It is a process and tool
that can facilitate trust and build authentic relationships that bridge divides created by real and
perceived differences. We believe it is essential to pursue racial healing prior to doing change
making work in a community. Because, before you can transform systems and structures, you
must do the people work first."
RACIAL HEALING CIRCLES…
• are experiences that engage the heart
• require the heart to be open and expansive
• reaffirm the humanity in all of us
• acknowledge that unconscious bias lives in all of us
• are the spiritual work of affirming and loving ourselves
• acknowledge (by “listening”) the harms of the past through people’s stories
This virtual event will last approximately two hours. Participants are expected to engage (this is not an event that can passively listened to in the background), turn on their video cameras, turn off other distractions (emails, phone calls, and honor the touchstones that create a safe space for connection.
Virtual seats are limited. Because of the limited size, we request you only sign up if can attend and fully participate.
Join County Health Rankings & Roadmaps at 2 p.m. CT/3 p.m. ET on the National Day of Racial Healing for a free webinar examining how racial healing can transform relationships between people of color, including those from Black, Indigenous and Latino communities. We’ll investigate a new approach from the Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN). BHPN developed REPAIR, a framework that helps institutions implement sustainable policies and practices that promote solidarity and healing. Program Manager Kevin Leacock will describe how REPAIR can foster belonging, build trust and shift power so that public health, health care, community development and philanthropic sectors are better positioned to engage people of color in decisions that affect their health and well-being.
This gathering challenges assumptions of racial hierarchy that are manifested through thoughts, words, and actions. It aims to spotlight the voices of the historically marginalized so that their voices and concerns are heard and responded to on multiple levels.
National Day of Racial Healing: Lunch and Learn
Join us for an engaging online event on the National Day of Racial Healing! Whether you're a student, professional, or simply curious, this Lunch and Learn session is perfect for anyone interested in fostering racial understanding and restorative justice.
A great learning opportunity for those working in nonprofits, social impact, corporate social responsibility, consulting, education, community organizing and more! Come to learn, network and leave with new skills to implement racial healing.
Where: Virtual webinar followed by networking
When: January 16th on National Day of Racial Healing from 12pm to 1pm.
Who: Dr. Colton Nguyen, Business Psychologist, DEIB Consultant and Human Rights Activist.
*Free digital gift with attendance
Learn more about the host here: COLT-NGUYEN.COM
REGISTER NOW: https://bit.ly/abc-2024-0116
On January 16, 2024, the Alaska Black Caucus joins other states in paying tribute to the eighth annual National Day of Racial Healing.
On this day, the Alaska Black Caucus , lREGISTER NOW: https://bit.ly/abc-2024-0116
January 16, 2024 marks the eighth annual National Day of Racial Healing.
On this day, the Alaska Black Caucus will join other communities across the country to explore common humanity and build the relationships necessary to create a more just and equitable world.