6pm Thursday, August 13 -
2 pm Sunday, August 16, 2009
Cost: $595 per person
Room, Board and Supplies Included
Dialogue: Racism
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"[People] hate each other because they fear each other, and they fear each other because they don't know each other, and they don't know each other because they are often separated from each other." -- Dr. Martin Luther King
The Hallmark of the Center - Dialogue: Racism - was developed by the Center for the Healing Racism to promote the sharing of thoughts, feelings, experiences and perspectives among a diverse group of people. Teams of facilitators from different heritages create a safe, respectful environment where participants can explore the issues of racism, where racism originates, how racism is perpetuated, the forms of racism, and positive means for overcoming racism and healing its wounds. Participants are then encouraged to dialogue within guidelines which promote real listening and understanding. www.centerhealingracism.org.
August 13-16, 2009
6pm Thursday, August 13 - 2pm Sunday, August 16
Dialogue: Racism provides a safe, respectful and loving atmosphere for individuals to learn new information, share their experiences, and ask questions to dispel their fears, to get to know one another, and to stop the separation.
Topics Featured during the workshop include:
Cherry Steinwender, is co-executive director of the Center for Healing Racism, an ethnically diverse non-profit corporation located in Houston, Texas. Through her work with the Center, she has helped to develop Dialogue: Racism, a seminar that brings together ethnically diverse groups to examine the history and sociological phenomenon or racism in the United States and to begin the process of healing racism.
Cherry has conducted healing racism workshops for myriad groups including counselors, social workers, religious communities and students and faculty from elementary school through university level. She has served on the Houston Community College Racial Awareness Program, the Advisory Board for the Center for Principled Leadership, as well as on the Advisory Council of the Office of Reconciliation Ministries. Cherry continues to offer intensive weekend workshops in cities across the United States to aid communities in establishing local program to deal with the issue of racism.
Tricia McFarlin, joined the Center for Healing Racism in 1995 after her first experience with Dialogue: Racism. In its open and warm atmosphere, Tricia felt that she had finally found a language that would enable her to talk about racism in a healing rather than confrontational way. She was raised in a working class European-American family in Texas and was the first person in her family to get a college degree. In her college and graduate school studies, she had found herself vitally interested in the writing of people of color because they addressed directly the pain of separation and discrimination that racism perpetuates in our society. Her academic interest in the problem of racism lined up with her political commitment to working for a just and loving world. It wasn't until she participated in that first Dialogue: Racism workshop that she was how that vision could be carried out. While she's grateful for the intellectual knowledge of this painful issue that she gained in college, she know that it requires a balance of heart and head to be resolved, a balance that Dialogue: Racism fully embraces.
Who Can Benefit:
This program is open to anyone interested in dialoguing about racism. Educators at all levels and those who have direct contact with youth will find immediate benefits.