Racial Healing Circles

Racial Healing and Relationship Building - Focusing on ways for all of us to heal from the wounds of the past, to build mutually respectful relationships across racial and ethnic lines that honor and value each person’s humanity, and to build trusting intergenerational and diverse community relationships that better reflect our common humanity.

“Racial healing circles are designed to focus on stories that affirm our common humanity rather than on solving a problem. They are designed to go much deeper into the heart space by encouraging people to tell their stories, to listen deeply to the stories of others, find common ground and enable us to see our common humanity to help us to see ourselves in the perceived other. When this occurs, we build the trust that is necessary for courageous dialogue, and the transformation of hearts and minds that shows up in what we say and do.” 
American Library Association