Common Threads Racial Healing Workshop begins Oct. 13

RACIAL HEALING ZOOM WORKSHOP

Are you troubled by growing conflict in our nation? Do you long for greater understanding, respect, and harmony between people of different races? If so, you are invited to explore healing and unity through the Racial Healing Workshop hosted by Common Threads, a faith and justice ministry rooted in the partnership of First Baptist Church and Saint James’. To learn more about the workshop and to register, please contact the Rev. Randolph Charles at randolph@saintjameswarrenton.org. Let’s work together to build bridges of love and hope.

• THE LITTLE BOOK OF RACIAL HEALING (Workshop Resource Book)

• Oct. 13 — SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION

• Oct. 20 — SESSION 2: CHAPTER 4, UNCOVERING  HISTORY

• Oct. 27 — SESSION 3: CHAPTER 5, MAKING CONNECTIONS

• Nov. 3 — SESSION 4: CHAPTER 7, WORKING TOWARD HEALING + CHAPTER 2

• Nov. 10 — SESSION 5: CHAPTER 8, TAKING ACTION: “LOVE ONE ANOTHER” + CHAPTER 3

BELOVED CIRCLE NORMS

• Help establish a norm which encourages all participants to feel safe and brave to share.

• Speak your truth from your perspective; listen to the truths of others from their perspectives.

• Be a friend and companion, not a fixer, adviser, or debater. Listen to learn.

• I don’t have to be right; I choose to be in right relationships.

• Honor periods of silence, which provide time for participants to reflect, refocus, and listen.

• Be sensitive about shared time so that all can speak who want to speak.

• When there is conflict, use I-statements. (When you said ___, I felt___.)

• The Beloved Circles decide their confidentiality policy.

WISDOM QUESTIONS

• Wisdom questions are short, simple, genuine questions asked out of love and respect, not leading questions based on control or anxiety.

• The purpose of wisdom questions is the personal growth of the speaker, not the curiosity of the questioner.

• Wisdom questions help the speaker or group explore an issue more deeply by creating an environment in which they can hear their “inner voice” and discover the wisdom that dwells within them.

• Wisdom questions move people beyond the facts to the wisdom of soul and heart.

• Wisdom is more than thought and more than intelligence.

• Wisdom bubbles up from the well of faith, feelings, experience, dreams, wonder, and imagination.      

ZOOM MEETING SCHEDULE

• 1:15 p.m. — Begin Admitting Participants

• 1:30 p.m — Gathering Time and Journey Coaching: Randolph

• 1:45 p.m — Beloved Circles

• 3:00 p.m — Leader: “Go Forth with God in your Journey for Justice.”
         People: “Together we will!”

Common Threads is a faith and justice ministry founded by First Baptist Church and Saint James’ Episcopal Church.

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