Coming to the Table for Racial Healing and Equity

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Coming to the Table for Racial Healing and Equity

Coming to the Table for Racial Healing and Equity: Making Minnesota the Peacebuilding Power State for All

By Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute

Date and time

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 · 8 - 10am PST

Location

Online

About this event

Join the MN Department of Health for this monthly Mental Well-Being and Resilience Learning Community Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm CST

Coming to the Table for Racial Healing and Equity: Making Minnesota the Peacebuilding Power State for All

Presenters:

Crixell Shell, MS, Assistant Executive Director, Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute

Donna Minter, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute

Since 2017, the Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute (e.g. Peacebuilding) has sponsored the Minneapolis chapter of the national organization Coming to the Table (CTTT). CTTT racial healing and equity talking circles create safe spaces to hear stories, uncover history, build relationships, and heal from racial violence and trauma. Talking circles help build life-giving power in our communities amidst the uncertainty and vulnerability we face.

CTTT invites descendants of the enslaved, slave owners, settlers, indigenous communities, and all those interested in engaging in safe constructive dialogue to envision just and truthful communities. The circles are designed to heal racial wounds from historical trauma and collective trauma that continues today.

In 2020 Peacebuilding grew the CTTT circles in partnership with Normandale College, the City of Minneapolis, and community partners in Ramsey, Dakota, and Washington Counties. Over 700 individuals have participated in our five monthly talking circles.

Learn how Peacebuilding launched this initiative, how our CTTT partnerships have evolved, and how CTTT is addressing key organizational equity goals. We will also discuss the organizational and community outcomes associated with these community healing and equity circles. www.mnpeace.org

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The Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute ("Peacebuilding") is a 501(c)(3) non-partisan public charity nonprofit organization transforming psychological trauma into nonviolent power with positive productive alternatives to revenge. We prepare individuals, organizations, and communities for truth-telling and repairing harm for healed, just, equitable relationships toward the possibility of reconciliation.  Our mission is to instigate, train, and support racially, sexually, culturally, ethnically, religiously, and economically diverse individuals and organizations to become trauma-informed, resilience-oriented, and restorative justice-focused, empowering communities in Minnesota, the USA, and around the world.  Our vision is making Minnesota the Peacebuilding Power State for All. www.mnpeace.org For additional information, please contact us at info@mnpeace.org and find us on social media as @MNPeacebuilding.

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