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Making-Visible: Anti-Black Racism - webinar 1
We are thrilled that Valerie Brown will be sharing her stories and insight with us as our first speaker for Making-Visible: Anti-Black Racism. Valerie is a Dharma Teacher in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh, an international retreat leader, writer, leadership coach, and Principal of Lead Smart Coaching, LLC.
Valerie envisions lives transformed individually and collectively to foster greater courage, trust, authenticity, and love in action. She offers leadership and executive coaching and consulting, mindfulness training, finely-crafted small group pilgrimages and retreats for leaders, individuals, teams, and organizations to foster personal and professional development and societal transformation.
Resources suggested by Valerie:
Books:
Together We Are One by Thich Nhat Hanh
How to be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Video:
Othering & Belonging Institute: Video on Bridging: Towards a Society Built on Belonging
Ruth King’s Self-Compassion Guided Exercise:
· May I be safe and protected from harm, illness, or accident
· May I accept myself fully as I am
· May I recognize that I am complete, whole, and resourceful as I am
· May I know that I am loved and loveable
· May I be happy
· May I be calm and at peace
· May I be healed
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We are aware how we have been conditioned into anti-black racism and, as a mindfulness practice community, we aim to support the unraveling of this conditioning as well as the growth of inclusive, equitable, and beloved communities. In order to do that, we must first understand the experience of people of African descent, including understanding how anti-blackness can be as overt as police killings and as subtle as unmindful speech or being passed over for a work promotion.
To quote the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG) “Anti-Black racism is the foundation for the strategies, tactics, tools and cultural worldviews that propagate and maintain racial oppression, repression and exclusion in the U.S. and the world.”
Anti-black racism is the cause of enormous wealth disparities between White and Black individuals. And, anti-black racism is at the root of high rates of maternal disease and infant mortality rates in Black women. These are just two examples of the ways that anti-black racism affects our country daily.
Please join us for the next webinar. With your support and presence, we will continue to bring awareness and transformation to these injustices.